West Sussex Recover & Rise #4: Collaborate, Trust, Win | Training

In the New Year, West Sussex County Council is supporting a new initiative across the county to help small businesses who are finding the current climate commercially tough.

The West Sussex Recover & Rise in 2021 program is a series of nine FREE online workshops designed to give small businesses a robust toolkit to not only survive through another year of unpredictable times, but to thrive.

These sessions have been put together by local experts (Rume2, Shake It Up Creative & Creative Bloom in partnership with the County Council) to help business owners define, communicate and market in the right way to attract and retain customers throughout 2021.

From product/service definition to networking, from setting goals & KPIs to tracking success through analytics, from action planning to digital marketing, this program will give small and micro companies the structure and sales that many of them desperately need as we head into a new year.

The sessions will be run online and will take place at 12pm every Tuesday & Friday from Tuesday12 January.

Interested organisations can use the link below to sign up for any or all of the sessions.

Sign up to workshops.

The business must be located within West Sussex to be eligible for these workshops.

COLLABORATE, TRUST, WIN

Learn how collaboration and purpose can really push a business forward. The guest speaker for this session is former Business Link Advisor Jo Yates. Jo has a vast amount of experience in providing SMEs with business support and advising them how to build contractor relationships, in addition to helping companies submit funding bids. She has also been a successful business owner herself (18 years), selling her business in 2016. Join to hear how purpose and collaboration can both be drivers and sustainable forces for company success. There will also be breakout room networking as part of this event.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

This workshop is ideal for small business owners and micro businesses who want to learn about the benefits of collaboration and how to go about it. The session will also explain what business purpose is and how that can aid company and brand growth. Ideal for those whose growth plans need something new injected and for companies that have service gaps which could be fulfilled through mutually beneficial partnerships.

SESSION CONTENT

Collaboration can help build trust. As a trustworthy company, you’ll be better placed to win more business and you'll be able to secure expertise from like-minded people.

During Jo's presentation you will hear real life case studies from business owners who’ve had successful collaborations which have led to companies excelling whilst exceeding their growth targets.

Breakout room networking will follow Jo's presentation enabling you to meet other businesses in the area and begin to form new relationships.

"My session with Rachael was really helpful, and packed with very informative advice. She provided me with loads of actionable steps to take, and plenty of great ideas I hadn’t thought about. "

Tim Hanley

This workshop is part of a nine series set of workshops for West Sussex Recover & Rise 2021 - to see other workshops available click here.

The session is hosted by Rachael Dines, a Chartered Marketer and the Director of Shake It Up Creative who has 20 years marketing experience across employed, self-employed and Director roles. Rachael also provides marketing mentoring for members of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and business advisor services for members of the small business community Enterprise Nation.