To be in business can be exhilarating, empowering, exciting and downright scary. Learning what you need to know, increasing knowledge and understanding, and developing and applying new skills, comes through effective training.

YTKO’s proven enterprise development programmes are highly interactive, with opportunities to discuss individual challenges and peer learning. Some are full day workshops, going into real depth on critical aspects of running a profitable and successful business or social enterprise; others are strategic personal and business development programmes running over a period of several weeks or months; and we provide shorter, intensive workshops on specific business skills. In the last five years we’ve delivered over 20,000 training hours for clients.

All YTKO programmes are modular and flexible so that clients benefit from personalised business development programmes. They are delivered at all stages of the enterprise journey, from pre-start support through to high growth business acceleration. Individual elements of the training portfolio overview summarised on the right can be brought together as bespoke courses tailored for your business needs.

Most of our experienced trainers are successful businesspeople themselves. They understand the unique realities and challenges of building sustainable for-profit businesses or social enterprises, and bring direct, pragmatic experience of what works in the real world. Our satisfaction levels rarely drop below 95%, and clients repeatedly say that the learning experience has been the best they have ever experienced.

Training forms a key part of our Solutions for Business Enterprise Coaching and Intensive Start Up Support product delivery in the South West and East of England. See Outset Cornwall, Outset Plymouth, Outset Bristol, Outset Torbay, Outset Norfolk and Outset Herts for examples of our support for under-represented enterprise groups in disadvantaged areas.