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Wednesday 28th November

Succeed as a First-Time Manager: The Fundamentals of Business Planning and Performance Monitoring (Barnsley)

Date: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Time: 09:00 – 13:00
Venue: The Digital Media Centre, S70 2JW

This Masterclass will help managers and staff to understand the business planning cycle, processes used to develop plans and the manager’s role in it. Current business examples will be used to explain the importance of planning and what happens when it goes wrong.

It describes activities in all parts of a business from Marketing, to Finance and Operations and demonstrates how plans come together.
Methods for deploying enterprise wide planning will be shown and the importance of collaboration discussed.

This session helps managers understand why the planning process is important and the business planning cycles and processes used to develop long and short-term plans. It covers techniques such as SWOT, PESTEL, Sales and Operational Planning and the Balanced Scorecard and discusses the roles of all functions within a business from Marketing, to Finance and Operations and demonstrates how teams must work to make plans come together.

This Masterclass is complimented by Succeed as a First-Time Manager: Personal Leadership and the Responsibilities of a Manager (Barnsley) and Succeed as a First Time Manager: Building an Effective Team and Successful Communication, Engagement and Performance Management (Barnsley) Masterclasses.

This Masterclass will cover:

– The importance of planning and the business planning cycles

– Methods and techniques for performance monitoring

– Processes for decision making and review

Who is the Masterclass for?

This Masterclass is for all growing SMEs within the Sheffield City Region, as long as the below eligibility criteria is met.

These Masterclasses are designed for those who have taken on a planning role for the first time, aspire to do so or are responsible for the management of planning. They will be equally useful for people who have been in their role for some time and would like to refresh their skills and knowledge.

They are suitable for managers working in all business sectors.

Eligibility

Only one registration per business via Eventbrite will be confirmed. If additional people from your business would like to attend, they can be added to a waiting list by emailing enhancementproject@sheffieldcityregion.org.uk with the business name, name of additional attendee and contact telephone number. If this Masterclass isn’t fully subscribed upon the closure of registrations, we will contact you to offer the additional place. The waiting list will be prioritised on a first come first served basis. Businesses that register more than one attendee via Eventbrite will be contacted and asked to nominate one person to attend.

This Masterclass is open to small and medium-sized enterprises based in the Sheffield City Region. If you are unsure whether you fall into this region you can use the postcode checker.

A part of your business must be based in one of the following districts: Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Doncaster, North East Derbyshire. Rotherham or Sheffield.

Find out if your business meets the definition for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME).

Please note that if your firm that is part of a larger Group you may need to include staff headcount, turnover, balance sheet data for the Group too, to ascertain whether it is eligible.

We are pleased to be able to provide this masterclass free of charge due to funding from the European Regional Development Fund. There are a number of eligibility criteria for attendees which we will check using the online registration questions and in a phone call to every attendee prior to the event.

More Sheffield City Region Growth Hub Enhancement Project Masterclasses.

Contact us for more information.

This event will be delivered by the ‘Sheffield City Region Growth Hub Enhancement Project’ that is part-funded by the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The project, for high-growth businesses in the Sheffield City Region, aims to increase their competitiveness and so help them grow and prosper.