Leaders never stop learning

On this day before ‘back to school’, do you feel equipped and ready with what you need to make the final trading term a success?  

Back to school means back to learning yet small business owners never stop learning.

In running a business, no single day is the same, and you find yourself responding to what’s going on in the company and market ie non-stop learning on how to deal with new challenges and opportunities.  

Our job at Enterprise Nation is to make life just a little bit easier by connecting you with what you need to know, when you need to know it.  

I wrote in July on how I, a founder myself, wanted to raise my head from the ‘do-ing’ to get re-connected to the ‘why’ we do what we do.  

To that end, each Wednesday I’m hosting Lunch and Learn (a 30 minute online event that has run every weekday since lockdown) and interviewing entrepreneurs, small business supporters, and policy makers on what’s happening in their world.  

In this final trading push of 2024, if some inspiration and information will power you on, please tune in.  

Here are just some of the guests appearing:  

• 4 Sep How to raise money with the head of SME Lending at British Business Bank
• 18 Sep When to hire and how to make the most of a COO in your business with COO of Checkatrade, Mathieu Proust
• 2 Oct How to scale a service based business and drive company value with Salil Pajwani and Sophie Surowiak-Long who did just that at innovation agency, What If
• 9 Oct Unlock the power of business coaching with Barefoot Coaching Ltd Founder Kim Morgan who has trained more than 6,000 coaches  
• 6 Nov Discover how Power to Change is powering community based businesses with funding, support and representation, in conversation with CEO, Tim Davies-Pugh  
• 20 Nov This lady makes and sells 3 million biscuits a year and has built an exceedingly good business. Meet Harriet Hastings , Founder of Biscuiteers, who will talk about how to start and scale a business in the gifting sector
• 27th Nov just in time for Christmas shopping, hear how Connie Nam is building jewellery and lifestyle brand, Astrid & Miyu into a significant retail force in the UK & USA.  

You can view the daily event listings here.  

Let’s get back to school!