Business Skills Training
Finance
Delivered through one of our training partners, we offer a full one-day training course which covers the fundamentals imperative to small businesses looking to improve their overall control and awareness of business finance. These include:
- Cash flow
- Pricing of goods and/or services
- Use of key financial ratios
- Understanding standard reports (Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet)
Presenting your Tender
Protégé Management delivers a full one-day training course on how to prepare and deliver professional presentations. The workshop deals with:
- Tips for the presenter
- How to create a powerful presentation
- The use of PowerPoint
- How to deliver to an audience
Business Planning
Protégé Management’s sister company, Territory Mapping CIC, delivers a wide range of strategic planning seminars and workshops designed to bring clarity to an organisation, focus on what is important to a business, leading to alignment of resources. This training course will show you how produce an effective (though somewhat unorthodox) business plan which would be used to communicate throughout an organisation, help identify your competitors, develop priorities and motivate staff.
Equality and Diversity
Delivered through one of our training partners, Protégé Management offers courses relating to equal opportunities, legal compliance and the business benefits of a diverse workforce. The elements of the training include:
- Business growth and marketing through an understanding of a diverse marketplace
- The Law, discrimination and risk reduction
- The recruiting and retention of a diverse workforce
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Protégé Management offers a half-day seminar on how CSR can reduce costs, increase business, improve reputation, increase staff morale and commitment and provide innovation to business processes and services.
Business Continuity
More Public Sector (central and local government) are demanding that businesses have disaster recovery/business continuity plans as a pre-requisite to an invitation to tender. It is imperative for any business (whether they tender for local authority contracts or not) to address this matter, particularly as the amount of business that fail following a debiliting incident is extremely high.
Delivered through one of our training partners, Protégé Management offers a comprehensive one-day introduction to business continuity – at the end of which, businesses will have a clear understanding of the extent of planning needed to meet this very necessary requirement.
Marketing
Protégé Management deliver a one day 'Toolbox Marketing' workshop for SMEs to realise the power of understanding their position in the market place and how to leverage branding and marketing communications to successfully enter the public sector procurement arena.
Fundamental IT
E-commerce and e-business enablement is now an essential part of doing business with the Public Sector. Adopting and making the most of new technology has always been a challenge for most SMEs however our Fundamental IT programme enables and supports businesses to embrace the opportunities that online business creates.
Sustainability
With both central and local governments now focusing on reducing their environmental and social impacts, their procurement processes will increasingly seek assurances about the sustainability performance of their supply chains. Our Sustainability Procurement Workshop facilitates the acquisition of these new skills and explains the valuable benefits to businesses of all sizes and sectors.
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