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WEYBRIDGE, SURREY, from April to June, 2018 — Skills4Stem, a WEConnect International certified women’s business enterprise, began delivering an exclusive female business leadership programme designed to help female entrepreneurs develop and grow their organisations. Topics covered over the 3 months included the use of Agile methodologies to increase team performance and improve customer satisfaction, strategies to encourage high growth, project management, strategic financial management, coaching, attracting and retaining talent and assessing leadership styles.
Procter & Gamble, a WEConnect International corporate member, partnered with Skills4Stem to run the leaders programme that was held at the P&G offices for 17 UK majority women-owned businesses. The course was split into three streams over six days, with a Q&A session led by a topic expert from P&G at the end of each day. The streams were Growth Strategies, Business Operations and Leadership.
Elizabeth A. Vazquez, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of WEConnect International, commented:
“WEConnect International was established to help empower female business owners to succeed in global markets. We gave Skills4Stem the contract to deliver a leadership programme on our behalf for Procter & Gamble. The collaboration between Skills4Stem and P&G enabled the development and delivery of a unique and innovative leaders programme. We could not be more delighted with the outputs.”
Chris Young, HR Director, Procter & Gamble Northern Europe said:
“As part of our commitment to a diverse supply chain, P&G wanted to offer training sessions designed to inspire, encourage and empower future growth and development in these women-owned businesses. We have been delighted not only with the content of the course but also with the feedback from those who completed the programme.”
Course participant Alison Frith commented on her experience:
“The ability to have free thinking time and be able to take time out and receive such relevant learning content. alongside meaningful discussions with like-minded people was invaluable. There was always something to take from each topic, such as the lost productivity from multi-tasking with the memorable phrase ‘stop starting and start finishing,’ to active learning sets for problem solving, useful coaching techniques and the ‘one pager’ for succinct communication. The time given by P&G was incredibly generous and their willingness to offer guidance and honesty in addressing all our questions across the programme was quite honestly outstanding.”
Skills4Stem CEO, Sarah Davis, said:
“We have been delighted to work with P&G, a leading STEM-based organisation, to deliver a course which provided top level skills to CEOs and business leaders from majority women-owned businesses across the UK. P&G were looking for an innovative, high quality, worthwhile programme. They wanted something market-leading and we worked hard to give them this.”
