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Rethinking your business development strategy

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The pace of change in the workplace has never been greater. 

For many apprenticeship providers, that means rethinking your offer, your place in the market and how you grow and retain strong partnerships with employers.

Drawing on SDN’s work with over 1,000 apprenticeship providers and 900 employers, this workshop will help you review and rethink your business development strategy for apprenticeships.

This challenging and practical session will help you consider:

Your business development strategy (external)

  • Trends and changing priorities – rethinking your role and your place in the market
  • Aligning your offer to the short- and long-term workforce priorities of employers
  • Growing and retaining strong strategic partnerships

Business development strategy (internal)

  • Developing and costing your offer
  • Rethinking your sales process and cadence models
  • Aligning your marketing and business development strategies
  • Organisational structures – effective working between recruitment and curriculum teams

About your session

Louise
Doyle

Alison
Sumpter

The workshop will be facilitated by Louise Doyle and Alison Sumpter – senior apprenticeship and business development specialists at SDN.

As well as holding senior business development roles in FE, Louise and Alison have worked with hundreds of apprenticeship providers and employers to improve employer engagement strategies, apprentice recruitment and the overall quality of provision.

This session is designed for senior managers responsible, or involved in, their organisation’s business development strategy for apprenticeships.

During the session, you’ll have chance to explore new ideas and approaches with other senior business development leads and effective practice across different provider and employer settings.

“Excellent training. Thanks to those in the background who make it all work. Great team at SDN. Highly recommend your training!.”

 – Event attendee

Booking and payment:

If you have several staff who would benefit, let us know and we’ll send you details of the most cost-effective way of accessing the session.

If you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority), and unable to book via card, please email us. When you make a booking, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)

SDN CPD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.

Workshop breakdown

  • Live webinars
  • Recordings
  • Resources etc

Date – Upcoming

Cost – £150.00 (+VAT)

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In-house delivery

If you have a group of individuals interested, we can host a bespoke version for your organisation and tailor the content to you.

Please get in contact, and we can chat through your requirements and timescales:

T: 07415 414877

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