Great British Entrepreneur Awards in association with BT Skills for Tomorrow have designed a free, live-streamed series of 'Lightbulb Sessions' to support small businesses and entrepreneurs with insightful and advice-driven sessions with the UK's brilliant entrepreneurial minds to illuminate their path to entrepreneurial success.

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11:30 - 12:30 Building a resilient business

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It’s easy to start a business but more challenging to keep one going. It’s even harder to grow a strong resilient business. The importance of resilience for our mental wellbeing is well documented and it’s equally important for a business to be able to withstand unexpected knocks and swerves on the road to success.

Resilient businesses tend to have certain characteristics in common, notwithstanding the differences in their platforms, markets and target client-base.

In this session you will hear about some of the key elements needed to make your business resilient including:

• aligning the interests of your workforce with that of your business using share options and other incentivisation schemes
• ensuring your contracts meet your needs and have been properly finalised
• building flexibility into your longer-term commitments where possible
• ensuring your funding and equity arrangements are properly documented (including with friends and family)
• understanding the early warning signs of insolvency so you can take action quickly.

Online Session

1. Go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88902031216 at the time the webinar goes live to join.
2. You can join on mobile, tablet or desktop. However you decide, please ensure you have downloaded the Zoom app to attended.

BT Skills For Tomorrow

It’s more important than ever to have digital business skills. Through our BT Skills for Tomorrow programme, small business owners and employees can learn from our expert-led webinars and online courses. Our partnerships with Small Business Britain, Great British Entrepreneur Awards and Google Digital Garage gives you a wide range of courses and topics to choose from.

Whether you’re just starting out, or ready to scale up, we can help you with a range of topics; like digital marketing, online tools, social media, managing a team remotely and data protection.

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