Setting Your Strategy for Growth
DATE: 13 February 2008
VENUE: ABTA, Newman Street, London
Dynamic Financial Analysis
DATE: 27 February 2008
VENUE: ABTA, Newman Street, London
Targeting Your Marketing
DATE: 12 March 2008
VENUE: ABTA, Newman Street, London
Growth Through People
DATE: 2 April 2008
VENUE: ABTA, Newman Street, London
From Vision to Action
DATE 16 April 2008
VENUE: ABTA, Newman Street, London
FUNDING FROM THE LONDON LEARNING AND SKILLS COUNCIL FOR HIGH FLYERS MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
We are pleased to announce that funding has been secured from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) for the Growth Programme – a high flyers management development course.
The course is being run by ITT, ABTA and Transitions. The usual cost of the course per person is over £2000. However, by pooling our resources we are able to offer the course for £1200 per person. Your company may also qualify for an £800 grant from the Learning and Skills Council in London, which could mean you only pay £400!
The funding is available to senior managers, directors and CEOs.
In order to qualify for the funding your company must:
- Employ between 10-249 employees
- Must not have Investors in People (IIP)
- Must not have accessed significant vocational funding in the last 12 months
- Must not have received significant State Aid in the last 3 years
- Must not be publicly funded
One grant is available per eligible organisation.
If you do not qualify for funding but would still like to attend the course you may attend for the full fee of £1200.
The Growth programme was developed by Dr. Shai Vyakarnam, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge University and Director of Transitions. This high calibre business course has, up to now, been sadly lacking in our industry. Over the past 10 years over 500 businesses have completed the course across many business sectors. Over the last two years, Worldchoice have run 3 such courses with 36 travel businesses and have been extremely impressed with the level of success.
The Key Objectives of the Programme
To provide you with the confidence that will come from:
- Knowing exactly where you are going
- Having a realistic action plan
- Being on top of your finances
- Avoiding nasty surprises
- Developing new business contacts
- Sharing problems and worrying less
- Objective, impartial help and advice
- Above all, having a real sense of being in control through the knowledge that it is you driving the business and not it driving you!
The Workshops
Choosing your growth strategy
Developing a business strategy that is truly market led. Where are we now? Where are we going? What is our vision?
Dynamic Financial Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of your finances. How to be always firmly in control.
Targeting your Marketing
Developing the marketing action plan that will reflect your growth strategy and enable you to achieve your goals.
Growth through People
Understanding people and matching your personal and business goals.
From Vision to Action
Preparing a realistic business action plan that will really work.
Individual Presentations of your action or business plan for constructive feedback
The Benefits
- A renewed and clearer sense of direction
- Increased financial control resulting from improved financial foresight and intelligence
- Clearer self-knowledge allowing you to gain more from your relationships with your staff, colleagues, customers and suppliers
- Easing the loneliness of being the decision-maker, responsibility-bearer and the place where the buck always stops
- The opportunity to develop and present a realistic action plan for your business to a panel of recognised business experts and gain objective, individualised feedback
These are some of the comments made by people who have taken part:
“The worksheet for breakeven analysis alone is worth money and time to come on this course” – Willie Stewart, Managing Director, Stewart Travel Services
‘This time last year I thought my business would not survive another year. I needed help in running my business and I got this through The Growth Programme. A year ago I had four agencies, I now have one but through implementing what I’ve learned I make more money from one than I used to make from four. Through using the Power of 1% I have now increased my margin by 4%. All this in the worst year the trade can remember. – Steve Pattenden, Double S Travel
The dates for the courses in London at ABTA offices are:
13 February 2008 – Setting your Strategy for Growth
27 February 2008 – Dynamic Financial Analysis
12 March 2008 – Targeting your Marketing
2 April 2008 – Growth through People
16 April 2008 – From Vision to Action
If you are interested in taking part in this programme and want to find out about the funding, please come to an induction meeting on 17 December at 13:00 at ABTA’s offices in Newman Street when you can find out more about the programme.
For further information please contact:
Vicki Wolf, ABTA, E: vwolf@abta.co.uk T: 0207 3071916 or
Gill Ellis, Transitions, 0870 990 6003; 07976 134 281; gill@transitions.co.uk
Claire Steiner, ITT, E: cs@clairesteiner.co.uk T: 07723 358141
