Free capacity building workshops for SMEs and Social Enterprises

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Places are still available for FREE capacity building workshops coming up for SMEs and Social Enterprises taking place at:

GRREC Temporary Visitors Centre, 425 Polmadie Road, Glasgow, G42 0PJ.

Details below, click the link for the flyer (PDF). Registrations details are also below.

Making Organisations more Entrepreneurial

Thursday 21st April 2016 | 10:00 – 16:00 hrs

In this highly practical session, led by David Fraser, we will look at key aspects of making an organisation more entrepreneurial, such as:

How to establish an entrepreneurial mind set throughout a company
Making business winning and revenue generation everyone’s business
Instilling “can do” leadership attitudes
Key sales and marketing enablers
Stimulating new leads and enquiries
Balancing entrepreneurial initiative with control of the business
Nurturing your brand and its promise to customers
Making a habit of business improvement

David Fraser is an award winning author, speaker, and leadership team coach. He is Managing Director of Success for Leaders and a Chartered Engineer. David specialises in the development of leadership, change, and making organisations effective through successful strategy and implementation of strategy, and establishing the most conducive culture.

Digital Marketing for Small Businesses: 3 steps to transforming your business online

Tuesday 3rd May 2016 | 2:00 - 4:00 hrs

This workshop will focus on:

BUILD: Building your online presence through websites and social media
ATTRACT: Choosing the right way to promote your business online
ENGAGE: Developing your online community and keeping them engaged

Delivered by Steve Lee from Tomorrow Design, a Website Design and Digital Marketing company in Glasgow, Scotland who help businesses of all shapes and sizes to embrace digital to attract and engage new customers. “Whether it’s Website Design, Online Lead Generation, or Social Media Development, we’ll work with you to create a digital strategy that’s right for you and your budget”

Background Information:

Part of the FTSE 250 Pennon Group, Viridor is Scotland’s leading recycling, renewable energy and sustainable waste partner. Working with 96% of Scottish local authorities, public bodies and Scotland’s leading businesses, Viridor operates a £100m Scottish network of advanced recycling infrastructure and is investing £500m to translate Scottish zero waste policy into practice.

Viridor is working with Glasgow City Council to design, build finance and operate a European class modern recycling and renewable energy centre to better manage the city’s 200,000 tonnes of residual waste that until now would have gone to landfill. The £154m project will deliver a broad range of opportunities for small businesses and social enterprises including a commitment to support a programme of capacity building workshops.

TO REGISTER: [email protected] | 0141 301 1212 www.transformingwasteinglasgow.com | visit www.viridor.co.uk