Helping businesses to start up, grow and thrive
Inova promotes enterprise by encouraging and supporting individuals to follow their dreams and start up in business. We work predominantly with sole traders and small business owners to help individuals progress through the initial stages of start-up and continue on to run a successful business to suit their needs. Inova provides Mentoring Circles™, one to one mentoring sessions and individualised coaching and personality profiling all aimed at enabling individuals to better understand their strengths and weaknesses and reflect on skills and attitudes on their journey into business start-up or growth.
Inova’s specialist experience is in supporting women and BAME (Black and Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs) to start up or further develop their businesses. We are also working with individuals from disadvantaged communities to provide support for business start-up through coaching and mentoring.
Please see below for our portfolio of completed projects in this area.
We also have current UK and International enterprise projects.
Enterprise Circles for Women Starting Up in Business
Inova provided Enterprise Circles to women wanting to start up in business as part of the BiG programme. The Enterprise Circles placed four/five women all going through similar experiences and wanting to start up in business with an experienced female mentor in order to provide group support, share successes and combat the isolation that many women can feel when setting up a business alone.
read about Enterprise Circles™(PDF, 59Kb)
Mentoring Programme for Women Starting Up in Business
Inova developed a mentoring programme for women across South Yorkshire to help women start up a business, providing Awareness Workshops, Mentoring Circles™ and Mentoring Pairs. We helped 65 women over a one year period to gain essential confidence and self-reflection skills in order to start up or grow their business. read case study (PDF, 82Kb)
Accelerator Growth Programme for Women Business Owners
Inova developed a programme combining Mentoring Circles™, business skills workshops and individualised professional advice sessions for women in South Yorkshire who had been in business between two to five years and who were either feeling ‘stuck’ or needing support to move their businesses forward and keep thriving. We helped women participants to gain skills, greater confidence and self-reflection, develop their business strategies as well as widening their networks of successful business women in the region. read case study (PDF, 122Kb)
Encouraging Entrepreneurship in University Students
Inova works with universities to run workshops to raise awareness of the opportunities entrepreneurship offers and to encourage students to consider setting up in business as a career option. We also provide Personality Profiling to graduates who have set up in business but who feel they are now at a crossroads in development.
Networking and Mentoring for Female Entrepreneurs
Inova co-founded SYFEN (South Yorkshire Female Entrepreneur’s Network) with Beta Technology to provide women across the region with access to other inspiring women in business through regular networking events. Inova helped over 200 women to start up or develop their businesses through SYFEN, running Mentoring Circles™, Awareness Workshops and Mentoring Pairs.read case study (PDF, 99Kb)
project focus
Inova chosen to represent UK in new European network project to share best practice on mentoring women.
success stories
"We got lots of help and advice through Mentoring Circles."
Jessica Zeun, JD Approach
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