Catalyst
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 twilight sessions, 6pm to 8pm, 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.
Funding – University Innovation Fund (UIF) - £16,378 (2021-22); £16,706 (2022-23); £17,040 (2023-24)
For more information visit: Create Highland - Catalyst