SME Training Ltd
SME Training Ltd 

       Welcome to SME Training Ltd  *                                       and                                                 Fraser Vere Associates                              

                   

*  SME    Small  and Medium - Sized Enterprises  

 

We are back again after illness and refreshed!!  January 2026 Courses will restart!

 

1, 2, or 3 3-day courses with an excellent reputation and unique benefits for SME Owners, Managers and Staff. 

 

Our original one-week Course was designed in 2011 for a Government Ministry Partner. Twenty-one courses were delivered in six years. (Please see our testimonial page.)

   

We are confident that our SME business training courses are inimitable in content and effectiveness. We combine uniquely wide and varied theoretical knowledge with even more valuable and unrivalled practical experience, career roles and qualifications gained over 38 years of working with SMEs and running our own businesses!

 

There are now over 5 million SME businesses in the UK representing 99% of all UK businesses by number.

 

SME Training Ltd designs bespoke courses.  The new one 'Wellbeing    ......   

  •  Wellbeing !! At last, people are more thoughtful about it. The SME Training  One-Day Course 'Wellbeing For SME People' is a must!    
  • Roger Osborne makes this course as perfect, serious, shocking and  

 

 

 SME Owners & Directors

                                                                                     A quote from Roger Osborne at a Conference:

 

"In order to be a successful SME owner, I feel that I need to be a 'Jack of all trades'. Unconsciously I am trying to be a banker, an accountant, a sales manager, a credit manager, a marketeer, a strategist, a purchase manager, an employer and a visionary with a good duty of care for my employees.

If I make a loss, I cover it. If I make a profit and reward myself. Sometimes, other people will misunderstand my profit  ...  what about my work, stresses and finances?!

 

There are never enough hours in the day ".

 
SME owners often forget their own health, social, families/friends, and finance.   
 
Now, my wellbeing is paramount! I had a shock!!

 

 

SME Concerns

 

Endless surveys and reports confirm SME Training's own concerns, We deal with them regularly. 

 

The main concerns (amongst others):

  • Cashflow 
  • Slow customer payments
  • Obtaining finance
  • Lack of awareness of alternative finance
  • Competition
  • Overtrading
  • The economy
  • Planning and managing growth
  • Sources of information
  • Assessing the trends of the business
  • Stress, Anxiety, Money, Frustrations etc
  • Health!     

 

 

 

 

 

Delegate Comment

" Just a quick note to thank you very much for an interesting and informative Course last week. You excel as a lecturer and have the wit, knowledge, experience and charisma to make what could have been a fairly dry subject, topical and relevant to your audience. I confess that before the course started I was concerned that the week might have been a long one. However, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and learnt a great deal. The fact that you could educate a load of jaded folk  and hold their attention in such a comprehensive and entertaining fashion is testament to your skills". 

NJ, Course delegate 2015 

 

" Life Coacher, Roger, was so great! Real empathy, positive, serious and firm with a delicate demeanour and with humour. He loves to listen   ...   and  loves to talk too! He knows exactly what to say and his advice was right. In the end I feel like he is a friend and so confidential. He has charm. He was very open, honest and accessible with his personal and career issues. I was refreshed and positive!" 

JT, Client 2017    

 

"" The One Day  Course for   'Wellbeing SME People' was ... very emotionsl, insightful, cautioning, and with some amusement. I have started to change my health, life and methods.  Roger had been in the wars but has a great psyche. He was very honest with shocks and has better thankful times" 

JH, Course Delegate 2022 

 

 

SME Trading Limited

 

Postal Address:

Flat 4 Cloudsleigh Lodge

1 Bainbridge Avenue

Hartley

Plymouth

Devon

PL3 5QF

 

 

 

 

 

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