Training Courses

Delegates will gain insights on:

• Developing your business strategy
• Getting the basics in place - finance and operations
• The right approach for marketing and sales
• Keeping business performance on track

Chris Lorimer is a highly successful and sought after business consultant who supports businesses of all shapes and sizes.  He operates as Lorimer Consulting and is a co-founder of South West Growth Service

Start 9am

Close 5pm 

Lunch provided

1. UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF ACCOUNTING

• The fundamental concepts of accounting
• Debits and credits depicted visually
• Get to grips with accounting jargon and terminology

2. HOW TO DRAW UP A SET OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: THE ACCOUNTING CYCLE

• Journal entries ? general ledger and T-accounts
• Trial balance
• Income statement and balance sheet

3. HOW TO INTERPRET A SET OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

• Why the ability to analyse financial statements is so important
• Ratio analysis ? which ratios to calculate and how to interpret the results

4. UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CASH FLOW AND PROFIT

• The difference between profit and cash
• Accrual accounting ? what is it and why do we use it?
• How to manage cash flow in a business

5. USING BUDGETS TO MANAGE BUSINESS ACTIVITY

• Understanding the importance of budgets in business
• Budgeting techniques

Led by Rayanne Armand who is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a Masters degree in Finance. She has worked for both Deloitte and PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has a number of years tutoring  and lecturing experience. 

For more information, contact:

Email: info@root2growth.co.uk

Website: www.root2growth.co.uk
Phone: +44(0)777 034 6807

Assemble from 0900 for a 0930 start 

Course content is specified by the Health & Safety Executive and includes:

• Dealing with unexpected emergencies
• Assessing & Monitoring a casualty
• How & When to get help
• Recording & Reporting
• The unresponsive breathing, and non-breathing casualty
• Seizures
• Choking
• Shock
• Burns
• Bleeding
• Use of a Defibrillator(AED)

Training provided by Jeff Gregory of www.lifesavertechnology.co.uk/first-aid-training

Course duration: Most courses would commence at 9.30am - 3.30pm appx (can vary depending on length of breaks)

Lunch is included!

Delegates will identify:

• The rationale for scaling up - is this right for them?
• The key levers for scaling up their business - using a variety of tools
• The strategic options available to achieve the scale up outcome they require

In this high energy workshop, Directors and Business Owners will gain greater understanding of how they can achieve the growth they want whilst mitigating the potential risks.

South West Growth Service support businesses across the South West to scale up  and achive their business ambitions.  This course will be led by Chris Lorimer and Andrew Southall, two experienced business consultants who have supported businesses to achieve exceptional growth.

Lunch is provided - please let us kow your dietary requirements. 

Delegates will identify:

• The rationale for scaling up - is this right for them?
• The key levers for scaling up their business - using a variety of tools
• The strategic options available to achieve the scale up outcome they require

In this high energy workshop, Directors and Business Owners will gain greater understanding of how they can achieve the growth they want whilst mitigating the potential risks.

South West Growth Service support businesses across the South West to scale up  and achive their business ambitions.  This course will be led by Chris Lorimer and Andrew Southall, two experienced business consultants who have supported businesses to achieve exceptional growth.

Lunch is provided - please let us kow your dietary requirements. 

This 3 hour workshop will be interactive and high energy and will cover the following areas:

1. The purpose of the meeting and when to avoid them

2. Creating effective agendas

3. Changing the context of meetings to improve their impact

4. Removing distractions

5. Getting the most from attendees

6.  The role of Chair

7.  Ensuring actions are completed 

This 3 hour workshop will be interactive and high energy and will cover the following areas:

1. The purpose of the meeting and when to avoid them

2. Creating effective agendas

3. Changing the context of meetings to improve their impact

4. Removing distractions

5. Getting the most from attendees

6.  The role of Chair

7.  Ensuring actions are completed 

The day will provide you with an understanding of:

• How lean operations improve organisational performance
• What causes processes to be inefficient
• How to improve processes using a lean methodology

Agenda

10.00                  Refreshments will be provided on arrival

10.15 ? 11.00     Introduction to Lean and operational improvement

11.15 ? 11.30     Coffee break

11.30 ? 12.45     Business simulation 1 and review

12.45 ? 13.45     Lunch

13.45 ? 14.15     Identifying process inefficiency

14.15 ? 14.30     Break

14.30 ? 15.15     Business simulation 2 and review

15.15 ? 15.45     How to implement lean in your organisation

15.45 ? 16.00     Summing up and close of day

This workshop is led by South West Growth Service Director, Chris Lorimer.  Chris is a lean process improvement expert who developed his insights through his MBA at Warwick University, fully deploying them as Head of Operational Excellence at Barclays where he introduced Lean across the Private and International Bank. He led multiple award winning lean process improvement projects, has been a keynote speaker and judge at the European Six Sigma Awards.  He has helped introduce lean to organisations across the public and private sectors, including Higher and Further Education, manufacturing, professional services, finance and digital marketing.

Lunch provided