Join Steve Utley in a business growth workshop to learn how to strengthen your business plan using five pillars. In this workshop, we will look at five major areas small businesses can focus on, in order to stimulate growth. This 3-hour section will introduce five pillars that small business owners can then research and implement […]

Join the Dorset Growth Hub and Intergage for a webinar on how to use AI to improve your sales and marketing. Looking to improve your sales and marketing with AI? Discover how simple it can be to apply AI in your small business to free up time for your sales and marketing team. This webinar […]

Let's get together again over breakfast for networking and educational talks on the 10th December at The Crown Hotel, Blandford. Get back in the room with some of Dorset’s growing businesses. Let's chat, share a coffee and some food with plenty of time to network and connect with fellow Dorset businesses. This event will be […]

Join us for a live webinar with Andrea Haas as she shares her advice on how to recognise, manage and prevent overwhelm at work. Whether you run your own business or are employed there will be times when you feel stressed and overwhelmed by work. This affects both your health and productivity and can spill […]

Get Festive! Come and join us and make your own seasonal decoration.Join the New Directions team and other project participants at this festive session. We will have all the 'ingredients' to make a seasonal decoration to take home. Time to meet others, have a chat and be creative. Help is at hand if you are […]

Join the Dorset Growth Hub for an online workshop focused on building your business funding strategy for 2025 and beyond. Making exciting plans for your business in 2025? Are you planning to start the new year with a BANG by formulating a strategy for business growth? Planning starts with some fundamental questions about finance such […]

Join Steve Utley in a business planning workshop to learn how a business plan can be your roadmap to business success. There’s an old maxim ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. This was never so true as in the world of business. Starting a business is very easy. Sustaining that business and […]

Join Business Coach Ann Sharratt for a workshop designed to provide you with essential knowledge to attract new clients using marketing. Who should attend? If you are a Business Start Up launching a new product or service, or you are Scaling Up your business and looking to reassess your marketing choices, this practical workshop is […]

Join the Dorset Growth Hub and Intergage for a webinar to discover the AI trends for 2025. Looking to stay ahead of the latest changes in AI? Join us for a session looking at the current rate of change, new tools and capabilities coming to market and what to expect as a business from AI […]

Introduction to spreadsheets: Creating tables, formatting cells, creating/using simple calculations – 6 places max Improve your employability skills or overcome your fear. These gentle introductions will get you off to a flying start. We will provide laptops for you to work on. Also check out other Excel courses we provide. General information New Directions is […]