Business Link Support

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Business Link Support

• Russel McGrathGrowth Companies ManagerBusiness
  Link Northwest

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Business Link Northwest

• Business Link Northwest is an impartial,
  free-to-use business support and information
  service for businesses and individuals across the
  North West.

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Business Link NorthwestPrinciple Services

• Universal Service
• Targeted Service
• Train to Gain

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Business Link Northwest Universal Service

• Web Site
• Telebrokers

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Business Link Northwest Targeted Service

• We can help you to define, and make explicit, the
  goals of your business. What are you aiming to
  achieve?
• We can help you to assess where you are now. How
  is the business performing in relation to your
  stated goals and in relation to your competitors?
• We can help you to generate a plan of action to
  take you from where you are now to where you want
  to be.
• We can provide you with access to a range of
  specialist advisers who will help you to
  implement this plan of action.

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Links to CompeteFor

• Health Safety Policy
• Equal Opportunities Policy
• Quality Statement
• or
• Human Resource Management
• Quality Management

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Business Link Northwest Targeted Service

• Financial pressures
• Difficulty in generating new customers / poor
  marketing results
• Dissatisfied customers
• An unhappy, poor performing workforce
• Workload and stress placed on owner / manager is
  intolerable.
• Poor use of ITC
• Out of date systems/high administration costs

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Business Link Northwest Targeted Service

• Sales and Marketing - branding, brochures,
  research, strategy, PR
• Operations Management - quality standards,
  manufacturing processes, profit improvement
• IT - networking, system configuration, web sites,
  software
• Financial Management - fund raising, financial
  information, acquisitions, succession planning
• Health, Safety and the Environment - risk
  assessments, policy, procedures
• New Product Development - research, testing,
  design
• Human Resources - organisational review, staff
  incentives, policies
• General Management - business planning, strategy

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Business Link Northwest Train To Gain Service

• The Train To Gain service helps Employers get the
  training they need to succeed
• The service offers impartial advice, identifies
  training needs and sources appropriate training.
• Funding to support some training activities
• Delivered in the North West by the Business Link
  Skills Brokerage service
• Service design reflects the Governments public
  service principles demand led funding, employer
  choice, competition
• Training programmes are flexible, responsive and
  offered at a time and place to suit businesses.

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Business Link Northwest Contact Details

• Business Link NorthwestCity Office ParkBluebell
  WayPrestonLancashirePR2 5PZ
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Website www.businesslink.gov.uk/northwest
• Email info_at_businesslinknw.co.uk