Would you like £1000 to develop your business leadership skills?

If you run an SME (with 5 to 250 staff) you may be eligible for up to £1000 government funding towards the costs of your action learning or training. The Train to Gain Leadership & Management programme will provide a free organisational needs analysis to highlight any skills gaps within your business. If your personal training and development needs can be addressed through action learning then you could be eligible for funding.

£500 is available to managing directors, owner managers and company directors. Senior managers or the management team can claim a further grant of £500 but this must be match-funded.

You could put the funding towards:

• Joining a cross-sector action learning set of CEO and Directors from the public, private and voluntary sectors
• setting up an in-house action learning set for your senior management team
• attending an ALA action learning facilitator training course to extend your existing action learning and facilitative leadership skills
• running an on-site facilitator training programme for senior management
  (HR/L&D) to bring action learning in-house

You can only claim one grant within the funding period which ends in July 2011 and eligibility criteria apply (including the de minimis rule on financial support for SMEs). To find out if you are eligible for funding contact your local Leadership & Management Advisory Service.

Call Train to Gain on 08456 047 047 or visit the Train to Gain website for local contact information.