Owner Manager Programme

Skills

• New skills, techniques and frameworks to apply to your business
• Improved work/life balance and a new approach to your mental and physical health
• Confidence, motivation and enhanced leadership

Clarity

• A new business growth plan critiqued by leading business experts
• Better awareness of what drives business growth and how to analyse and fine-tune your business to solve problems
• Clarity on the future and a better understanding of yourself as the leader of the business

Support

• A room full of owners going through the same stuff you are, and who keep you accountable to delivering on what you say you will.
• A safe space to unload, share war stories, ask for help, and talk about the challenges of being a business owner without fear of criticism.

The Owner Manager Programme is a 16-day programme that takes you out of your business to focus on your learning. It is held over five months, in blocks of three off-site (residential) days per month where you will stay together with your fellow programme attendees. This is followed by a single-day implementation workshop approximately three months later.

The teaching format of the Owner Manager Programme includes small and large group sessions, as well as one-on-one discussions. Case Studies and real-world examples are used to complement academic theory.

We use “The Four Circles” to understand the context of the Owner Manager and their business. This unique approach sets our programmes apart because we get that for owners, business is personal.

• You
• You in the business
• the business
• community & macro environment

To assist you in focussing on particular areas of growth or development, you’ll have access to a dedicated business coach for five one-on-one sessions prior to attending, during attendance or following block five. We’ll match you with someone from our wide selection of specialist business coaches who can help you focus on the areas most important to you.

On each Owner Manager Programme, two facilitators guide the learning experience and provide a good mix of academic and practical expertise. Their common sense and business acumen is supported by specialist professionals, experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders who share their real-life experiences in a flexible learning environment.

Each block features an owner-manager guest speaker. This creates an opportunity to share in another owner-manager’s business experience and gain insights and learnings to apply to your business.

You'll be joined by up to 25 fellow business owners at a similar stage in their journey as you. Throughout the programme, you'll grow close, learn from each other, be accountable to each other, and value the external perspective that other owners can offer you.

We'll make sure there's no direct competitors in  the room, meaning everyone is comfortable speaking freely. This also ensures the room is full of people from different industries, as often the ideas that create the greatest positive change come from places you wouldn't normally look or have access to.