Insights from real businesses to power your growth
Running a business and eyeing up growth or innovation? What if you could tap into the real-life experiences of others who’ve already overcome the common challenges? Those who’ve made mistakes, learned lessons and tasted success – and are prepared to share their journey to help yours.
Join us the third Thursday of every month for Growth Lab: Darlington, where we bring peers together to learn from each other and accelerate the growth and innovativeness of their businesses.
Places are limited therefore booking is essential.
Next event // 15th June 2023 / 9:30am - 11:00am
How strategic planning gave me direction and a destination
With Tracy Hutchinson,
Chief Operating Officer at Supportive
In this series of candid, fireside conversations at Innovation Central, successful local business leaders share real-life experiences of overcoming common challenges involved with growing a business.
How can you pick a path when you don’t yet know where you want to go? How can you make confident decisions when the heat is on, or prioritise resources when you’re not sure what you’re actually aiming for?
That’s how Tracy describes the lottery that was decision-making before investing in a strategic plan for her business. After years of doing things the same because ‘they’d always been done that way’, Tracy and her team decided to really shake things up by daring to imagine the future they really wanted for their organisation.
In this frank and honest session, Tracy will open up about the challenges she’s overcome to nail a simple strategic plan that has turned loss into profit and confusion into clarity. And she’ll share the joy of the journey now she’s equipped with a reliable roadmap and the whole organisation is onboard.
Format
This series of informal conversations and interactive sessions dives into key topics that enable business growth and ignite innovation.
Each month a local businessperson will chat about the hurdles they’ve cleared on their road to success. And you’ll get a chance to ask your own questions so you can get to the heart of what you need to know.
Fuel up first with a bit of breakfast. Then after the main session there’s a chance to network and meet others who can support your growth with information and opportunities.
The sessions are facilitated by Graham
Robson and Debbie
Simpson.
Other events in this series will cover:
- Building the foundations for growth
- Understanding the market opportunity
- Developing a competitive advantage
- Demystifying strategy
- Effectively implementing a growth strategy