We introduce M A Spooner Ltd.’s Growth Engine Programme, meticulously crafted to instil a resilient growth mindset and deepen comprehension of growth principles. This transformative initiative equips participants with indispensable tools and expertise to craft a winning growth strategy.

Recent research, as highlighted by The Scale Up Institute and echoed in The Federation of Small Business policy paper, underscores the UK's fertile ground for business initiation but emphasises deficiencies in facilitating sustained growth and scalability. Irene Graham, CEO of the Scale-Up Institute, identifies access to finance as a significant barrier to small business expansion.

Moreover, as businesses expand, entrepreneurs must evolve and adapt. The pace of growth amplifies the challenges of this transition. It's not solely the founder's role that evolves, but also the requisite skills and attributes for effective management. Functional disciplines like marketing, accounting, and personnel management undergo transformation. Entrepreneurs must transcend into adept leaders and managers.

Expansion demands the implementation of systems, procedures, and recruitment of additional personnel. Effective management of these changes is paramount for successful growth, necessitating disciplined action to drive revenue generation, cultivate customer relationships, and secure long-term sales contracts.

Growth Engine Programme 
We have designed the Growth Engine Programme to help you to build a strong growth mindset and strengthen your understanding of growth concepts and growth thinking in relation to development of
your business.

This programme will therefore provide you with the tools and business skills to formulate a strategy in which you will identify the forces that inhibit growth in your business, separating them into high and low forces and simultaneously consolidating internal and external factors that drive growth in your business venture.

The rate of growth is therefore dependent on the difference between these two measures, and business owners have significant scope to reduce barriers and create the conditions to drive growth because this is only possible where the overall rate of increase in income is greater than the increase in your costs. The following table illustrates the elements of the programme in which you will receive an intensive programme of training, assessment, planning and strategic advice to accelerate the growth of your business over a 12 month period.

The following table illustrates the elements of the programme in which you will receive an intensive programme of training, assessment, planning and strategic advice to accelerate innovation thinking in your business.

Individuals who have a clear product or service and have been trading for more than 12 months.

• Individuals trading longer than 12 months with a written business plan and wishes to increase sales and generate increased revenue.

• Individuals who wish to expand their customer base or who have a strong brand that can be used to attract more customers.

The benefits of the programme

The growth engine system comprises of 8 distinctive concepts that taken together provide a structured method of accelerating growth through formulating a growth plan and attracting investment to fund growth over time.

• The Growth Engine System focuses on three measurable outcomes that underpin your growth path: (a) generating income (b) boosting sales (c) increase in number of customers served.

The Growth Engine System combines academic and theoretical models and strategies for growth with practical application, case studies and exercises, providing you with the opportunity to look at your own growth potential.

• The Growth Engine System works with a maximum of 20 businesses on each programme providing opportunity to network on a monthly basis with like-minded individuals over a 12 month period.

• The programme will be interactive and encourage you to present to the group your progress at key stages of development so that feedback is given by the group enhancing the learning experience and capitalising on the collective wisdom of all delegates.

The Growth Engine System focuses on three measurable outcomes that underpin your growth path:

(a) generating income (b) boosting sales (c) increase in number of customers served.

The Growth Engine System combines academic and theoretical models and strategies for growth with practical application, case studies and exercises, providing you with the opportunity to look at your own growth potential.

The Growth Engine System works with ONLY 20 businesses on each programme and so there is opportunity to network on a monthly basis with like-minded individuals over a 12 month period.

The programme will be interactive and encourage you to present to the group your progress at key stages of development so that feedback is given by the group enhancing the learning experience and capitalising on the collective wisdom of all delegates.