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This course will teach you how to manage conflict remotely and achieve positive outcomes.

If you would like book on onto this course, please email Jo Robson at: [email protected]

This course will teach you how to manage conflict remotely and achieve positive outcomes.

If you would like book on onto this course, please email Jo Robson at: [email protected]

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an exciting idea and want to understand how you can create a thriving business?

Have you got a passion that you want to turn into your ‘side hustle’?

Or are you an early-stage startup and want to see if you’re doing things the right way and identify ways to improve your business?

Activate follows the Lean Startup process, creating and developing our idea in short cycles allowing us to gather feedback to influence changes in the business. Taking place one session a week for four weeks, Activate allows you to work through a plan of action in a more interactive and structured way, giving you the time to reflect. The Activate programme has been designed to allow you to work with peers in a similar situation to yourself, allowing you to build your own support network and champion one another.

The Four Week Programme:

Week 1 – 27th April – Ideas & Assumptions

In session one we take a closer look at your idea and understand what value it brings to your customers. Creating a Customer and Product Canvas we can then begin to look at implementing ways that the product and the process of purchase can be more effective; giving you a greater chance of creating an attractive product or service.

Week 2 – 4th May – Customers & Marketing

In session two we begin to examine your targeted customers in more detail. Who are they? Why do they buy from you? How can we best access them? During this session, we will create our own Customer Profiles highlighting who our targeted groups are, and then we will go about creating a Marketing Strategy to best access at the earliest opportunity.

Week 3 – 11th May – Your Operations

In session three we focus more on you, and your ability to create the product or service you are providing. Through the creation of an Operations Map, we will be able to understand what a typical process from start to finish will be for the creation of goods, allowing you to remove clunky actions and streamline the process. Here we also begin to plan how you can remove risks from your operations and accentuate the potential rewards!

Week 4 – 18th May – Business Model & Vision

And finally, in session four, we bring together everything from the previous three sessions and create your Business Model Canvas. Here you will be able to see everything that you will be doing externally (attracting, engaging and communicating with customers) and internally (activities, partners and resources). Once the business model has been created we will then begin to create a Vision and the actions you need to perform to get there.

All of this combines into creating a more visual and accessible business plan, rather than the traditional approach of creating document after document trying to define your business! The team of Innovation Advisors from Hethel Innovation will be there to help guide you through this process, and for continued support following the course. We are committed to building business in East Anglia and are here to help!

Previous Activate Attendees:

“The Activate course helps you to take your idea, refine it, focus it, and move forward”

“It was great, very galvanizing & useful. Thanks!””Really good course, very engaging + helped me focus my efforts””Great sessions, the trainers were involved and helped each of us with our journeys. Great helping others, helps to broaden & strengthen perspectives”

For more information, please contact Jordan at [email protected]

Hethel Innovation is an EU-funded business support organisation, providing support to Norfolk and Suffolk’s business environment to innovate and become more productive and competitive as a result. Hethel Innovation also provides incubation services through Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park.

Learn how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection!

About this Event

Right now a project is failing. Projects fail or suffer delays every single day. The failure of projects is almost never technology. It is because of poor management of people and tasks!

Agile project management is a way of approaching a project using small and powerful teams. These teams take greater ownership of tasks, understand the bigger picture and work on a cycle of continuous improvement to accelerate towards being the best they can be.

Get Agile in a Day

This session will provide you with an overview of what Agile project management is, where it comes from and the potential power it has for small teams. In this workshop, we will be discussing how you can apply Agile to all kinds of project management, and the session will be an interactive experience for you to learn Agile and Scrum Framework concepts. Further, the day will provide you with clear and engaging demonstrations of how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection and we will also share some quick wins with you to help you get started on your Agile journey.

What you will get from attending this workshop:

• 5 hours of Agile training

• A good working understanding of Agile Project Management and the Scrum basics such as values, principles, roles and artifacts

• Hands-on and practical exercises

• Take-home material from the session that will aid you in starting your Agile journey and that you also can share with colleagues and use to practice further

• Access to all supporting course material, including post-access to the Miro board that will be used during the session

• Networking opportunities during breakout rooms and other interactive exercises

Following the session, the Business Development Team at Hethel Innovation will be available to make 1-1 appointments to help you and your team become more Agile!

 

Who is this session for?

• Anyone who is unsure if Agile is the right approach for them

• Anyone who manages a team and wants to improve productivity

• Anyone who wants to improve communication amongst a team

• Anyone who is sick of projects running past deadlines

• Anyone who needs greater cohesion and team focus

Agile Project Management is a course provided by Hethel Innovation as part of the Breakthrough project. This project is for the support of SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk. As such you may not qualify for entry as we have to abide by specific eligibility criteria. Sign up for a ticket and we will be in touch to confirm eligibility.

Please contact [email protected] for more information.

Delivered by Rikke Nagell-Kleven from Hethel Innovation. Rikke is an Innovation Advisor in the Business Development Team with a background from both molecular medicine and business management and has experience from working in high demand environments. From the daily pressure of working in a hospital laboratory, through to being an elite swimmer for several years, productivity has always been key for Rikke and she is always looking for opportunities to improve herself.

Have you recently started a business and want to see if you’re doing things the right way and identify ways to improve?

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with an exciting idea and want to understand how you can create a thriving business?

Or are you looking to launch a new product or service in your business?

Utilising content from our successful ‘Activate‘ series, which over the past 6 years has helped 100’s of aspiring entrepreneurs across Norfolk and Suffolk, Build a Business in a Day helps the time-poor and idea-rich to develop an idea and turn it into a feasible and sustainable venture.

Build a Business in a Day helps you to develop your idea and your business in an accelerated way. Using the Lean Startup approach, we help you to gain customer insight and use it to influence decision making and create a business that is wanted by, and works for, the customer; ensuring the success and potential of your venture.

What Will We Cover:

Over the course of the day, we will cover a variety of topics in a collaborative and exciting way to help you explore your ideas and turn them into real actions, including:

• What makes a great idea – and how to make yours work
• Who your customers are – for today and for tomorrow
• How to market your business – creating an effective sales process
• What your typical day looks like – and removing the risks
• How you will grow – building a business model ready to scale
• What your future looks like – and how you can get there
• If you should register – all the pros and cons

Who Should Attend:

Using dynamic interactive tools that benefit individuals and businesses at varying stages of their development, Build a Business in a Day has been designed to help:

• Anyone with a business idea they’d like to explore further.
• Anyone with a side-business/part-time business that wants to make it their full-time work.
• A recently started business looking to connect to other local entrepreneurs and establish operations and strategy.
• An established business looking to add a new product or service to their range.

What Will You Get:

We’ve all been on training and events where you leave with high hopes of implementing something into your business, home, or general life, but lose the motivation to do so. In Build a Business in a Day you will get the following to make sure you know how to take your idea forwards:

• A copy of the slides from the day.
• The Build a Business in a Day ‘Toolkit’ – contains the tools provided on the day as well as other resources to continue your progress.
• ‘Strategic Action Cards’ – A Hethel Innovation-designed tool to help you turn your thoughts into realistic actions.
• Continued mentoring from the Hethel Innovation team (If you meet the eligibility criteria – see below).

Eligibility Criteria:

Build a Business in a Day is part of Hethel Innovation’s ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) project ‘Breakthrough’, which support aspiring entrepreneurs and SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk, providing 12 hours of bespoke support to help businesses become more innovative, productive and competitive.

Following the completion of Build a Business in a Day, businesses that meet the following criteria will gain access to a further 6 hours of support:

• You are based in Norfolk or Suffolk, UK
• You are a business that employs less than 250 people.
• You are a business with a turnover of no more than £41m.

What Have Others Said:

Build a Business in a Day is a new event which utilises content from our hugely successful ‘Activate’ series:

“Great sessions, the trainers were involved and helped each of us with our journeys. Great helping others, helps to broaden & strengthen perspectives” – Rob T

“Having been on a plethora of courses throughout the years, I was really impressed at how useful the Activate training actually was. I found it so helpful, thought-provoking, encouraging and was provided with a process for looking at our new business proposition from the start to where you aspire it to go. Thank you.” – Jane H

Hethel Innovation is an EU-funded business support organisation, providing support to Norfolk and Suffolk’s business environment to innovate and become more productive and competitive as a result. Hethel Innovation also provides incubation services through Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park.

If you’d like to know if Build a Business in a Day is for you, please contact Jordan at [email protected]

Learn how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection!

About this event

Right now a project is failing. Projects fail or suffer delays every single day. The failure of projects is almost never technology. It is because of poor management of people and tasks!

Agile project management is a way of approaching a project using small and powerful teams. These teams take greater ownership of tasks, understand the bigger picture and work on a cycle of continuous improvement to accelerate towards being the best they can be.

Get Agile in a Day

This session will provide you with an overview of what Agile project management is, where it comes from and the potential power it has for small teams. In this workshop, we will be discussing how you can apply Agile to all kinds of project management, and the session will be an interactive experience for you to learn Agile and Scrum Framework concepts. Further, the day will provide you with clear and engaging demonstrations of how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection and we will also share some quick wins with you to help you get started on your Agile journey.

What you will get from attending this workshop:

• 5 hours of Agile training

• A good working understanding of Agile Project Management and the Scrum basics such as values, principles, roles and artifacts

• Hands-on and practical exercises

• Take-home material from the session that will aid you in starting your Agile journey and that you also can share with colleagues and use to practice further

• Access to all supporting course material, including post-access to the Miro board that will be used during the session

• Networking opportunities during breakout rooms and other interactive exercises

Following the session, the Business Development Team at Hethel Innovation will be available to make 1-1 appointments to help you and your team become more Agile!

 

Who is this session for?

• Anyone who is unsure if Agile is the right approach for them

• Anyone who manages a team and wants to improve productivity

• Anyone who wants to improve communication amongst a team

• Anyone who is sick of projects running past deadlines

• Anyone who needs greater cohesion and team focus

Agile Project Management is a course provided by Hethel Innovation as part of the Breakthrough project. This project is for the support of SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk. As such you may not qualify for entry as we have to abide by specific eligibility criteria. Sign up for a ticket and we will be in touch to confirm eligibility.

Please contact [email protected] for more information.

Delivered by Rikke Nagell-Kleven from Hethel Innovation. Rikke is an Innovation Advisor in the Business Development Team with a background from both molecular medicine and business management and has experience from working in high demand environments. From the daily pressure of working in a hospital laboratory, through to being an elite swimmer for several years, productivity has always been key for Rikke and she is always looking for opportunities to improve herself.

Do you struggle to find the time to review the strategy of your business? Spend so much time working on the ‘day-to-day’ that you can’t move things forward? Are your future plans still relevant?

Over 2 days, Accelerate allows you to review the current state of your business, overcome challenges, and seize on opportunities. As well as the 2-day intensive workshop you will also gain access to our team of specialist advisors where you will discuss and create an action plan to move your business forwards. Accelerate has been created to help the idea-rich and time-poor to review ‘the now’ and work for ‘the tomorrow’. Working collaboratively with other businesses, succeed together.

Hethel Innovation are the provider of innovation support in the East of England, and throughout the series you will be challenged why you do what you do, and how you can look to do things differently. Provided with an extensive toolkit, you can work with other business owners experiencing similar challenges to create innovative solutions and accelerate your growth potential.

What Will We Cover:

Over the 2 days, we will cover a variety of topics to help you explore your ideas and turn them into real actions, including:

• How your market environment may have changed over the past 12 months.
• Breaking down who your competitors are, and identifying gaps.
• Evaluating your brand; how it aligns to what you do and whether it is manifested in reality.
• Identifying your customers of today, and of tomorrow, and how you can best engage with them.
• Reviewing your top line and bottom line growth strategies, and the opportunities available in your industry.
• Revisiting your strategy and taking actions from the aforementioned topics and turning it into a realistic action plan.

Who Should Attend:

Using interactive tools that benefit businesses at varying stages of their development, Accelerate has been designed to help:

• Aspiring young businesses that are ready to grow, but don’t believe an ‘Accelerator Programme’ is for them.
• Businesses between 1 and 5 years that focus on day-to-day operations, rather than strategic actions.
• Businesses looking to launch a new spin-out or product/service and want to create a growth plan to ensure it’s success.

What Will You Get:

We’ve all been on training and events where you leave with high hopes of implementing something into your business, home, or general life, but lose the motivation to do so. In Accelerate you will get the following to make sure you can confidently take your business forwards:

• A copy of the slides from the day.
• The Accelerate ‘Toolkit’ – contains the tools provided on the day as well as other resources to continue your progress.
• ‘Strategic Action Cards’ – A Hethel Innovation-designed tool to help you turn your thoughts into realistic actions.
• (Optional) – Continued mentoring from the Hethel Innovation team.

What Have Others Said:

“It was a really enjoyable and friendly approach to learning, with real knowledge and understanding being shared. There were many tools explored, which make a difference to how I think about my business. Thank you.”

“Jordan and Sam were charming, supportive and knowledgeable. The offered clear and concise, easy to follow information. The guys also remained patient and understanding throughout. Can’t recommend Hethel enough!!!”

“I just wanted to say thanks again for the incredible sessions. I have learnt a lot and found them so very useful. I have lots of plans and ideas on how to move forward. I had been feeling a little bit lost in 2021, though I am still rather scattered, I now feel well armed and equipped to continue battling on!!”

Hi, we’re Hethel Innovation:

Our goal is to help businesses become more innovative, competitive, and productive.

These goals reach across many sectors, and bring together businesses, researchers, institutions, local governments, and students to create opportunities for innovation.

Alongside management of award winning hubs Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park, Hethel Innovation has supported hundreds of businesses in East Anglia over the past eight years through: bespoke interventions, training courses, conferences, masterclasses, workshops, innovation platforms, and incubation.

Learn how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection!

About This Event:

Right now a project is failing. Projects fail or suffer delays every single day. The failure of projects is almost never technology. It is because of poor management of people and tasks!

Agile project management is a way of approaching a project using small and powerful teams. These teams take greater ownership of tasks, understand the bigger picture and work on a cycle of continuous improvement to accelerate towards being the best they can be.

What Will We Cover:

This session will provide you with an overview of what Agile project management is, where it comes from and the potential power it has for small teams. In this workshop, we will be discussing how you can apply Agile to all kinds of project management, and the session will be an interactive experience for you to learn Agile and Scrum Framework concepts. Further, the day will provide you with clear and engaging demonstrations of how Agile methods are used in practice through group activities and personal reflection and we will also share some quick wins with you to help you get started on your Agile journey.

Who Should Attend:

• Anyone who is unsure if Agile is the right approach for them

• Anyone who manages a team and wants to improve productivity

• Anyone who wants to improve communication amongst a team

• Anyone who is sick of projects running past deadlines

• Anyone who needs greater cohesion and team focus

What Will You Get:

• 5 hours of Agile training

• A good working understanding of Agile Project Management and the Scrum basics such as values, principles, roles and artifacts

• Hands-on and practical exercises

• Your own ‘Get Agile in a Day Toolkit’, a personal collection of tools to help you visualise how Agile methodologies can be implemented in your business, note important realisations and plan your next Agile steps  
• Access to all supporting course material, including post-access to the Miro board that will be used during the session  
• Networking opportunities during breakout rooms and other interactive exercises

Following the session, the Business Development Team at Hethel Innovation will be available to make 1-2-1 appointments to help you and your team become even more Agile!

What Have Others Said:

“Really enjoyed the session, this is the first kind of session like this I have joined and I found it very informative and would definitely recommend.”  

“Thank you for a superb event. If anyone is on the fence about attending. Take a day out. It’ll do the team a world of good to look at projects through this approach.”

Hi, we’re Hethel Innovation:

Our goal is to help businesses become more innovative, competitive, and productive.

These goals reach across many sectors, and bring together businesses, researchers, institutions, local governments, and students to create opportunities for innovation.

Alongside management of award winning hubs Hethel Engineering Centre and Scottow Enterprise Park, Hethel Innovation has supported hundreds of businesses in East Anglia over the past eight years through: bespoke interventions, training courses, conferences, masterclasses, workshops, innovation platforms, and incubation.