Build Capability and Help Your Business Grow
Freeing up more of your time to direct and develop your business, being constantly pulled into day to day operations, helping managers and supervisors raise their game, finding talented people you can afford and who will actually deliver, putting in place strategies, systems and structures to facilitate expansion, working on your own leadership and management style and managing change through people – these are common issues faced by all SMEs where CUC partners, working with other business support providers can help.
Higher Level Skills Training
Truro & Penwith College, and Cornwall College Business both offer higher level skills training to encourage your rising stars to take responsibility and add value.
Graduate placement
Unlocking Cornish Potential is a CUC project which manages the risk to business of working with early stage graduates by offering support for 6-12 months, business specialist mentoring, business skills training and a potential project investment fund, based on a minimum salary of £16,000. Helping them add value to your business, quicker.
Postgraduate Placements
To tackle a six week work package in your business within a flexible timeframe and at a subsidised cost. Includes projects around advertising, journalism, TV production, curatorial practice, illustrations, biosciences, health and environment, and nursing related disciplines. Telephone 01326 254200 or email
Leadership and management development
Truro & Penwith College, Cornwall College Business and Plymouth University's Centre of Leadership & Organisational Excellence, (CLOE) and Exeter Business School all offer courses to help develop your leaders and managers.
Truro & Penwith College Business Centre
Cornwall Leadership Academy
Helping improve performance and quality in public services in management coaching, lean service management, delivering service improvements, understanding and controlling costs, HR quality and performance and project management - a partnership project from Cornwall College and Truro and Penwith College. Email Cornwall College Business or Truro & Penwith College Business Centre email
Unlocking Potential
a programme that supports the continued development of your business through inspirational events, learning collectives and underpinning research, run by Plymouth University and Cornwall College. Unlocking Potential
A helping hand for business
Interns, undergraduate placements and student projects are cost effective means of bringing fresh perspecitves and affordable talent to your business - helping you compete. Focus and timing of student projects will need a tight brief and fit with curriculum for them to work.
Downloads:
Finishing School - To quote Vince Lombardi, leaders aren’t born, they are made. CUC business support manager Marian Bond explains how
Business Cornwall October 2010
Graduate Potential - Marian Bond explains the opportunities of tapping into the Duchy’s graduate potential