When COVID-19 appeared in March 2020, the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) asked us to partner in creating a support programme to help businesses navigate through COVID19. 

The Entrepreneurs Academy and the Local Enterprise Offices reacted quickly and pivoted to design a programme specifically to support you, our SME and Micro Enterprise clients through the current challenges and changes to the business environment.

This FREE online programme provided both structure to the week and helped businesses quickly assess the situation and move forward with a greater degree of certainty, both the business owner and their teams. We supported clients as they needed focus, creativity, resilience, courage and good leadership to navigate the unchartered waters.

This programme provided a safe space and equiped business owners with tools required to help assess the business situation and explore creative solutions.

Over five 2-hour live small group online sessions, which included learning-application-breakout discussions, leadership and business experts from The Entrepreneurs Academy, we tailored the programme to focus on the specific needs addressing topics such as:

    • Creativity and problem solving
    • Scenario planning your finances
    • How to get really innovative
    • Resilience
    • Risk assessment

 

    • Prioritisation
    • Leading yourself and others well
    • How to stay centred and focused and keep others focused
    • How to maintain real connection with remote teams and clients
    • Navigating change with courage and positivity

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In addition, we facilitated some of the very first networking sessions to help business owners’ network and support each other!

We hosted a variety of dynamic and interactive networking sessions where business owners could meet others facing similar challenges. Our motto was:

Bring your own coffee and ditch the isolation! Connect, collaborate and gain peer support. Keep your network alive, learn from and support each other while staying apart. 

      • Thursday, 2 April, from 11:00 -11:45 am on behalf of LEO Dublin City 
      • Friday, 3 April, from 11:00 -11:45 am on behalf of LEO Fingal 
      • Friday, 3 April, from 12:30 -1:30 on behalf of LEO Kildare
      • Monday, 6 April, from 11:00 -11:45 on behalf of LEO Carlow
      • Tuesday, 7 April, from 12:00 -12:45 on behalf of LEO Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
      • Tuesday, 7 April, from 3:00 -3:45 on behalf of LEO Waterford
      • Wednesday,  8 April, from 3:00 -3:45 on behalf of LEO Laois
      • Thursday, 9 April, from 11:00 -11:45 on behalf of LEO Limerick
      • Thursday, 9 April, from 3:00 -3:45 on behalf of LEO South Dublin
      • Tuesday, 14 April, from 11:00 -11:45 on behalf of LEO Louth
      • Wednesday, 15 April, from 3:00 -3:45 on behalf of LEO Mayo
      • Tuesday, 21 April, from 11:00 -11:45 on behalf of LEO Kilkenny
      • Friday, 24 April, from 11:00 -11:45 on behalf of LEO Cork City