Catalyst

CREATE offers funded places on the fully online Catalyst Programme. Catalyst offers training tailored to small businesses and sole traders throughout the Highlands & Islands, Morayshire, Perthshire, and Argyll.

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes” Andrew Carnegie

Developed for small rural business owners by small rural business owners, Catalyst targets their needs and:

• Develops their entrepreneurial skills
• Improves their leadership practices and the productivity of their business
• Applies proven methods to analyse, develop and trial ideas to grow their business
• Shares local entrepreneur experiences through short video interviews
• Presents focussed content in an engaging form.

What Catalyst offers:

The programme consists of 6 modules and is taught entirely online with an initial induction on how to use the online tools and resources as well as twilight, tutor-led group sessions.

The sessions, 4pm to 6pm, are for group and tutor support and to discuss the learning from the online resources. There is no assessment/exam, but delegates will have a clear direction of where they want to take their business through the online learning, group discussion and activities they are asked to complete, by the end of the programme.

To apply click here.

Funders: Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund (KEIF)