Growth Programme
Glasgow City Council’s has created an innovative programme of support for businesses in the City. Business can access a range of specialist support through a tiered Business Voucher programme which pays 100% of the cost of specialist support for up to 15 days.
The application process is on-line and is straightforward to complete and submit.
If your business is based in Glasgow and pays rates to Glasgow City Council, please feel free to get in touch to arrange a no obligation meeting to discuss the needs of your business.
There are ten areas of support including business structuring; business growth; leadership, skills and resources; financial management; design thinking; innovation; Internationalisation; digital development and innovation and business resilience.
I am a partner organisation and provide support under the Leadership, Skills and Resources category. Examples of ways in which I might be able to help you and your business include:
Organisational Development
- Support you, as leader of your business, to review any changes you might need to make to your management structure and roles and responsibilities to deliver your post Covid-19 recovery plan
- Work with you and your top team to identify the culture you want in your business to drive delivery of your post Covid-19 recovery plan , review perceptions of the existing culture and make recommendations for changes to practices to support the transition of the culture
- Review existing people management practices and make recommendations for improvement to better harness the capability within your people
- Work with key people in your business to support them to improve or introduce a performance management system
Leadership & Management
- Provide one to one coaching for business owners and key people to:
– Enhance how you can build and maintain your personal resilience in post Covid-19 recovery
– Explore what you need to so to lead people to innovate and change in the post Covid-19 environment - Support your top team to:
– Build their personal and team resilience in post Covid-19 recovery
– Lead innovation and change in post Covid-19 recovery - Support your managers and team leaders to:
– Build their personal resilience
– Implement innovation and change - Review existing leadership development practices and making recommendations for improvement
- Work with you and your teams to identify the behaviours you want to see your managers demonstrate and develop behavioural competencies so that everyone is clear about the behavioural standards that are expected of them
- Design and deliver bespoke leadership development programmes for leaders at all levels in your business
Succession Planning
- Explore the challenges you face around succession planning and through coaching, support you to plan for future succession and effective management of the business
- Provide one to one coaching to build leadership capability for those identified as key future leaders
Capacity Building
- Work with you and your top team to identify potential career paths in your business to help you retain talent by demonstrating career development opportunities
- Identify the skills people need to develop to progress their career in your business e.g. operator to team leader / team leader to manager
- Work with you and your top team to identify processes you can put in place to support career development for key talent
HR Support
- Review current recruitment practices and make recommendations for improvement
- Review current induction practices and prepare a report on their future suitability or make recommendations for changes
- Develop job specifications for existing and new jobs to enable clarity of roles and responsibilities of managers and team members
The examples above are ways I have helped client businesses and your business may be facing similar or different challenges. If your business is based in Glasgow and pays rates to Glasgow City Council please feel free to get in touch to arrange a no obligation call to discuss the needs of your business.