Planning your next steps for Business Growth

The summer holiday season is upon us and we know that many
of you will have enough downtime away that you’ll start thinking and planning for the
months ahead as we run up to Christmas. 
Yes, we said it, Christmas!  When
we all return from our respective summer breaks, we’ll be in that latter part
of the year renewed from recharging our batteries and thinking about what we
can get stuck into and achieve before the festive season begins.

So, as you go on holiday, take away with you exciting
thoughts of business growth and embrace the ideas that such time with your thoughts will allow
you.  Whatever plans you come up with,
one of the biggest blockers to it actually coming to fruition is time and the
appropriate skilled resources.  As much
as we can’t stretch time, we can help you with the skills and resources you
will need for your ideas to become a reality and for business success to happen.

Planning the next steps to action will involve, firstly, looking at your existing team.  Are
they all stretched and struggling to find the time to do anything new, just
firefighting to get the priority work done each day? If so, growth can’t happen like this, and you’ll be facing the reality that
it’s time for a new member of staff. 

New members of staff with the skills you require are
expensive so consider an apprentice and train them in your ways with best
practice teaching from external professionals in the industry who will do it
for you at no cost (or very minimal cost).  Apprentices are cheaper to hire as they don’t
yet have the skills you need (but will get them pretty quickly in the first few
months on an apprenticeship). That’s where we come in because we are paid by Government to take on that training role for you and train your new team member whilst they work for you.

Alternatively, do any members of your existing team have
capacity to take on more or to upskill into a new role which will help you
achieve the goal you are envisaging?  If
so, you can use the same training arrangement for your existing team member
without any additional hiring costs… and remember that training from seasoned
professionals who have done the job and know the realities, is fully paid for
(or 95% funded depending on your situation) by the Government so it may
literally cost you nothing! 

If you would like to have a quick, no obligation chat about
how the apprenticeship system and associated funding can be used in your business to help you achieve the next stage of growth, please
do get in contact and we can help you gather good food for thought before you go away…

Contact louie@swarmgroup.org.uk