Help to Grow: Management Mentor
Supporting SME Business Leaders
Mark Bayley-Smyth has been approved as a Mentor for the UK Government's flagship Help to Grow: Management Course.
The course is subsidised by the government and delivered in collaboration with industry experts and experienced entrepreneurs. The 12-week course provides a combination of online sessions and face-to-face learning, delivered by business schools. It's aimed at senior leaders of small and medium-sized businesses with five or more employees.
Mentorship is a crucial element of the course, with mentors providing insight into business processes and management, acting as a personal sounding board, facilitating networking, and encouraging creative thinking. Senior business leaders who want to pursue mentoring can match with a mentor through the Help to Grow: Management Course platform. Once connected, they have access to 10 hours of one-to-one support.
Mark: "I am passionate about helping leaders, teams and their businesses succeed and grow. Having spent many years running diverse businesses only too familiar with the difficulties, challenges, frustrations and at times the sheer loneliness and isolation it can bring to a leader.
Starting and running my own business has allowed me to truly appreciate the day-to-day challenges of the leaders of the hidden champions of the UK economy, our SMEs. One of which is having access to people from outside the company who can act as a sounding board for issues and opportunities and offer independent guidance and feedback.
Having mentored within large organisations and for various other business support programmes, I want to continue to put my own mentoring skills to effective use in supporting small and medium-sized companies. I have also recently undertaken further training with the Association of Business Mentors."
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