Peer Networks - SEMLEP Growth Hub

Join together with like-minded business owners in a peer group to further cement your business recovery from COVID19, and plan for future success.

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About Peer Networks

Peer Networks is a national peer-to-peer networking programme for SME leaders that want to grow and develop their organisation for future success.

Managed locally by SEMLEP’s Growth Hub, the mentoring sessions for 2020-2021 have been designed and delivered by experts from the world-leading Cranfield School of Management, with partners for 2021-2022 to be confirmed shortly.

Business owners from across Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire will collaboratively work through common business issues.

You will attend six group sessions with fellow owner-managers, and three individual mentoring sessions, developing an action plan to prepare your business for the post-Covid, post-Brexit world through interactive action learning:

Gain focus and clarity on how to lead your business out of the pandemic.
Increase your confidence and gain new insights into yourself as a leader.
Work with fellow business-owners who are facing similar challenges you can discuss your ideas in a safe space and learn from each other.
Sharpen your thinking before sharing your plans with your team and your customers.
Benefit from the huge expertise on business growth and business survival which Cranfield has gained from running the “Business Growth Programme (BGP)” longest-running owner-manager programme in the UK.

The programme

The Peer Networks programme includes:

Interactive action learning
Trained facilitators
Small groups for high impact group sessions
Flexible topic selection
One-to-one coaching

All cohorts have now been filled for the 2020-2021 financial year, but further spaces will be available for 2021-2022.

You can register your interest in the Peer Networks programme by filling in the enquiry form. A representative of SEMLEP’s Growth Hub will then be in touch to discuss further details about your eligibility, the cohorts and start dates.

Places on the Peer Networks programme are limited so fill in the enquiry form today to guarantee your place in the 2021-2022 set of cohorts.

Who is the programme for?

Peer Networks is designed for business leaders who want to grow and develop their organisation for future success.

SEMLEP Growth Hub’s Peer Networks programme is available to any SME business in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes that has:

Operated for at least one year
At least two employees
A turnover of at least £100,000
An aspiration to improve

Ideally, participants should also have:

The potential to scale up
The ability or potential to export

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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

“The Peer-to-Peer Programme isn’t sitting around on your hands – it’s practical and intense. You put in the work, you reframe your thinking to get ‘unstuck’ and have protected time to work on your business, not in your business. It’s well worth the time commitment. I’m getting value from both the mentors and peers from Day 1. Join it, play full out, get the benefit. It’s that simple.”
FRANK KHAN SULLIVAN, C DIGITAL STUDIO
“I’ve been part of the Peer Programme and I would recommend this to a business which is looking to grow or even cross-check that they are heading in the right direction. It’s been useful to work with other business owners to learn different ways to drive business forward as well as help other businesses in return with my knowledge and experience. Well recommended.”
SIMON COX, POPPY DESIGN STUDIO
“The content has been very rich and comprehensive. The facilitation has been great and the guests invited for the topics have the experience and know their stuff. With 11 on the group, it’s been great to get some fantastic input from everyone. There is such a positive vibe on the group with loads of lessons to share and learn from one another. I am looking forward to the rest of the sessions. Thank you and I will definitely recommend the programme.”
ABI ADEFISAN, YUMCHOP FOODS

Benefits

Businesses that seek external advice or undertake formal training are more likely to improve their overall performance, but many prefer to take advice from trusted sources, such as their peers, when presented with external challenges and opportunities.

Peer Networks enables you to make connections that go far beyond networking.

By completing Peer Networks, you will:

Overcome business challenges and recognise and act on new opportunities
Build a trusted network of connections to support you now and in the future
Improve your long-term personal and business performance

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