Where Are You Now with Womens Enterprise

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Where Are You Now with Womens Enterprise?
The CASE For Womens Enterprise The Workshop
Experience

• Do you disaggregate client statistics by gender,
  ethnicity, disability and any other
  under-represented or disadvantaged group?
• Are at least 40 of your clients women?
• Is the organisation able to provide the following
  services, including the option of women-only
  support?
• Pre-enterprise training or counseling
• Business training or counseling
• Help in accessing finance
• ICT Training
• Networking or mutual support groups
• These are three of the twelve core standards for
  Business Support Providers as developed by
  PROWESS to create a framework for the assessment
  of best practice.
• These twelve core standards are covered in the
  workshop and provide a platform for ensuring that
  your services are women friendly.

Esteem Ltd For further information
contact Lorna Mackenzie Lorna_at_esteem.ltd.uk Seon
aid Carr Seonaid_at_esteem.ltd.uk
I believe this is a critical issue, not just for
our economy, but for society as a whole. Women
must have the opportunity to fulfill their
potential - our country cannot continue to thrive
without the enterprise and creativity they
offer. Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for
Trade and Industry and Minister for Women (2003)
538 Paisley Road West Glasgow G51 1RJ
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Esteem is the appointed co-ordinator for The Case
for Womens Enterprise workshops.
Promoting Womens Enterprise Support
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The CASE for Womens Enterprise
The CASE for Womens Enterprise The CASE for
Womens Enterprise is a facilitated workshop
experience with accompanying Toolkit comprising a
set of structured booklets and reference
materials. There is a 1 day and a ½ day Workshop
option. This Booklet describes the 1 day
Workshop. The ½ day facilitated Workshop is
designed for key individuals who are experienced
in the field of Womens Enterprise. It provides
an opportunity for them to come together to
discuss and agree the Strategic Direction for
Womens Enterprise in their region. It also
affords the opportunity to share the experience
and good practice. The 1 day Workshop is intended
to provide basic guidance and ideas on how to
support women starting and growing businesses
more effectively. It consists of eight elements
highlighting the key stages of entrepreneurial
development and the key issues for women.
Target Audience The CASE is principally aimed
at mainstream Business Support Providers, such as
Business Link and Enterprise Agencies.
Participants may have limited experience of
providing targeted services and may not have
previously considered segmenting their client
needs using a gender perspective.

• Workshop Objectives
• To provide an overview of The CASE and its
  context
• To give the delegates the tools and knowledge to
  work effectively with women
• To understand the structure and purpose of The
  CASE
• Workshop Overview
• 900 Registration and Coffee
• Welcome and Introductions
• Why The CASE?
• Contents of The CASE
• Where Are You Now
• Matching The Needs
• Effective Business Support
• Understanding the particular needs of women
  considering self-employment or starting a
  business is essential to providing effective
  Business Support.
• 4 Stages of Growth
• 1 Lets Start at the Beginning Pre-pre start up
• The challenges faced by women at the pre-pre
  start up stage are highlighted.

• 3 Developing the plan Pre-start up
• In the business planning stage creating a visible
  plan and reaching the point where the business is
  ready to start represents a major challenge.
• 4 Building for the future Development and growth
• Developing and growing a business brings a
  different set of challenges and this element
  examines some of the particular issues women face
  at this stage.
• Buddies
• Coaching and Support Networks
• This element highlights the different roles a
  business advisor can play in helping women
  establish effective support networks
• Money
• Access to Finance
• One of the key barriers at both the start up and
  growth stages of a business. This element
  identifies issues around finance and examines the
  options available.
• Strategy for Womens Enterprise
• Strategy for Womens Enterprise
• This element helps to set the Business Support
  Provider up for success when working with women
  in enterprise.
• Review