High Growth Programme

This innovative and pragmatic development programme has been designed specifically for established women entrepreneurs who possess the combination of ambition and potential to grow their business to the next level.

The Enterprising Women High Growth Programme is part of our wider support for women to accelerate entrepreneurship and success. The High Growth Programme addresses the key barriers to growth, develops the person and the business in parallel, and unlocks the potential to increase profitability, competitiveness, job creation, and wealth.

There is a growing demand and a recognised need for high quality support to help women who want to accelerate and increase their business growth. High Growth Programme has been helping women succeed for the last six years, receiving great feedback each time, and provides the development, knowledge, confidence and skills that women need and want to accelerate their business.

The next growth programme will open for recruitment in September - watch this space!

Growth programme

The programme is structured around the development of a Strategic Action Plan for business growth. Individual action plans developed by each participant provide an invaluable tool going forward and will help to identify, prioritise and manage the actions needed to achieve key goals.

Our training workshops are delivered by successful female practitioners and experts in the various fields, so that the sessions are rich with real-life examples and experiences. These exceptional women are enthusiastic and inspiring role models for participants.

The High Growth Programme consists of six days of intensive and interactive learning. They usually run at fortnightly intervals, with mentoring and coaching provided in between, and homework on aspects of the Action Plan!

We take participants through the 6 stages of business growth;

• overcoming personal barriers, developing leadership skills
• providing an overview of strategic marketing and innovation including an understanding of using social networking sites to help your business.
• the principles of finance and managing money, pricing, cashflow, investment and accessing finance
• increasing sales
• managing growth, recruiting and building teams
• expanding into new markets

Each day focuses in depth on the critical challenges of growing a business. Topics covered include building sales pipelines, marketing, negotiations, pricing, profitability, segmentation, competition, exporting, cash-flow, finance, confidence, personal and business goals, balance, leadership, recruitment, growing teams, strategic alliances and partnerships, managing growth, and presentation skills.

A workbook, full set of resources and additional material is provided for each delegate as the programme progresses. Participants can record their individual notes, questions, learning actions, ideas and "lightbulb" moments!

The power and support of working together in an all-female environment of like minds is fantastic, and many peer groups continue to meet informally long after the programme ends.

Read about the 6 stages of the High Growth Programme.(PDF 267KB)

Read all about it!

High Growth Programme has just finished running in Northern Ireland, (called BOOSTER there) where over 60 women have recently graduated. Read the highlights of the independent interim evaluation here and see for yourself what the participants thought.