Developing Your Business - The essential MOT for your existing enterprise

Running your own Business? Check out our 10 point MOT to see if you're ready to grow or if you need to do some essential maintenance!

Remember when you first started your business? There’s nothing quite like that feeling – a real mixture of excitement, nervous anticipation, the potential of a fresh start and a journey into the unknown. As with anything new, there are always challenges, some which you can predict and others that you would never have dreamed of. With the constant juggling of all the different roles you have to take on and the ongoing running of the business when was the last time you stopped to give it the once over to check if everything is still spot on?

• When did you last take a long hard look at your customer profile in order to define their price point tolerances?
• How well do you know your genuine competitors (not those you were akin to 5 years ago or those you secretly aspire to be like) and how they are performing in your common marketplace?
• How consistent is your brand and how well does it match and attract your profiled customer?
• How excited are you about your customer service and what makes you a cut above everyone else in your area?
• In terms of money, are you satisfied with your turnover/profit/ salary and do you feel secure about your future either in terms of your pension or exit strategy?
• Is your insurance still covering everything you do and are all your policies, licences and agreements still valid and up to date?

Join us for our Business MOT webinar where we will guide you through some of the key aspects you should check to ensure that your enterprise is still spot on. If you are thinking of growing, developing or expanding your business, can you afford to not attend?

Webinars are delivered via Microsoft Teams

For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Service adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment the careers adviser will help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action.

By giving us your personal information you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar

Customers' information is collected so that the Department for Education can carry out its functions, information will be handled in accordance with the principles and laws of data protection and at no time will it be used for purposes that are not related to the delivery of careers advice by the National Careers Service. For further details of how customer data is used, please view the privacy policy on the National Careers Service website; https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/help/privacy-and-cookies (or at bit.ly/NcsPrivacy2)

What else do I need to know?

There may be other participants in the session, so you must take care not to reveal any of your personal data at any time. Our recommendation is that you do not supply, verbally or on screen, your full name, email address, telephone number or any other information which could identify you to other participants on the call. You must not share such data, to safeguard your interests and so that you do not make yourself vulnerable to any malicious activity. Some presentations may be recorded for training purposes.

The link for this webinar will be sent to you afew days before the event.