drive - accelerate your business
What is it?
drive is Screen WM’s brand new exciting and innovative business development programme designed specifically for Birmingham based media companies.
drive is simply there to accelerate your business. Developed for busy creative people, the programme works across freelancers – just setting up in business, to established regional players – focussing on current skills and developing great business practice.
drive is about supporting you and where your business needs to go.
Who’s it for? 
We’ve got three levels of support:
If you are a freelancer, a sole trader or fairly newly established partnership, then the drive Level 1 programme will introduce you to the essentials of self and business management.
drive Level 2 is for the more established media organisations, particularly those working with, contracting or employing people. This programme builds on the knowledge and skills from the Level 1 programme and digs deeper into growing and accelerating your business.
Finally, drive Level 3 for the more established media businesses. For those who wish to keep on top of current and future business practice specific to the creative industries. This programme works around your experience, new initiatives, trends, specialist forums and high level one-to-one coaching. Yes it’s about business skills but it’s designed to work with the nature, pressures and excitement of the media industry. In order to be eligible for this level, you must have previously undertaken a business development programme with Screen WM, and, as a result, moved on significantly.
Why do it? What are the benefits?
drive is not just about training. It’s looking at you, your business and where you want to go. You are a great film maker, producer of really challenging and provoking documentaries, maker of some really great TV yet the business stuff gets in the way. drive acknowledges this and gives you what you need to know and who you need to work with to make sure the best bits of business practice are utilised in the media industry.
Working through the programme, you will:
- Be clear about your business direction
- Develop realistic and practical steps to get where you need to be
- Recognise ways in which to use a wide range of people and resources effectively
- Learn how to get the best out of people to work with you
- React positively to the fast changing world of media and business in order to keep your focus
- Create a new and enhanced network of people to bounce ideas off
- Have access to a range of speakers and facilitators working on your issues
- Develop a project solely on applying the drive learning to accelerate your business
- Have the opportunity to socialise with new chums
- Be a better business
What makes this scheme unique is that all the trainers delivering drive sessions have a media background, run media businesses themselves and are experts in their particular field of delivery.
How is it delivered?
The schemes will be delivered over a number of months through a mixture of training sessions and workshops, 1-2-1 support and guidance, work based reviews, recommended reading and practical exercise and discussion with the other delegates – giving you the opportunity to apply all your learning to your own business.
For further details on each level, please go to dedicated page
When is drive running?
We are currently running our drive programmes and new dates will be published as and when they become available.
Contact Louise or Katie for more information training@screenwm.co.uk or 0121 265 7120
Places on the programme will be awarded to individuals or businesses who have attended an intro session and are therefore fully aware of all requirements.
To secure your place you will be required to contribute 5% of the overall cost of your place on the programme.
Value of programme per beneficiary = £4,100
Cost to you = £205
This will be invoiced to you upon signing up to the course at the introductory session.
All beneficiaries must be based within the Birmingham and Solihull Objective Two postcode area. Details of which can be found at http://www.maps-wm.org/gowmmaps/Default.aspx
drive is co-devised and will be delivered by McPhedran Co Uk – who have considerable experience in designing, developing and delivering media schemes throughout the country.
This project is part-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund.
Birmingham City Council – Business Support for Creative Industries programme.
Please note: all costs exclude VAT.
