Do you find you need to wear a multitude of different hats
to make your business work?
Do you have a network of people
like you you can turn to for advice when you need it?
Spaceworks @HarlandWorks is a shared office space for
people running businesses who like the access to the flexible work and meeting
space Spaceworks offers. Most of us juggle many different roles to make our
business(es) work, and, as we’re not experts in everything (much as we’d like
to be!), it’s good to be able to tap into someone else’s expertise sometimes.
This effect is borne out by research which suggests that
better networked business owners run more successful businesses. Why?
Because nobody knows everything – so having a network increases the odds
that someone you know, knows a ‘man/woman who does’.
To develop the way we support each other we’re experimenting
with setting up a Spaceworks ‘Action Learning Set’ for business owners.
Our plan is to have an initial introductory session on 20th
May to explore the idea - and then sign up 8 business owners to work with a
specialist facilitator for 6 meetings between June - Dec 2013.
4 of us have already signed up. We include a social media
whizz, someone who has successfully built up a waiting list for a course
programme and someone who has successfully negotiated loan funding for business
growth in the last 12 months. We also include among us though, someone
who needs to learn about delegating to enable business growth, someone who
needs to get better at selling, and someone who needs to learn how to say ‘no’
to clients to improve profitability. So, we feel confident there are lots of
ways our businesses could benefit from this group.
To run the group we think we need 8 people, so we’re looking
for 4 more. Could one of them be you?
If you’d like to find out more please get in touch to
register your interest. Everyone will be then be invited to join us at our
initial meeting where we’ll meet our facilitator, hear a bit more about how
Action Learning Sets work, and discuss costs and session timings. This meeting
will be on Monday 20th May at 6.30 pm
at Spaceworks (in Harland Works, John St).
