Business Growth Barrier 3: Handling Competition, Disruption and Market Shifts

This workshop is part of "Breaking Through Barriers to Business Growth" series where each month tackles one of the most common obstacles preventing businesses from scaling, increasing profits, and building resilience.

Markets rarely stand still. Competitors change, technology develops, customer expectations move, and entirely new alternatives can appear. This session helps business owners look beyond the immediate pressures of running their company and consider what is changing around them. We’ll explore practical ways to assess competitive threats, identify emerging opportunities, and make better strategic choices about how your business should respond.

Who It’s For

Business owners who want to remain competitive, relevant, and commercially resilient as their market changes. Particularly useful for owners concerned about increasing competition, technology and AI, changing customer behaviour, economic pressures, or disruption within their sector.

In this session, you’ll learn:

- Where competitive pressure really comes from
Look beyond obvious competitors to consider substitutes, new entrants, changing customer choices and other pressures affecting your market.

- How to identify meaningful competitive advantage
Challenge assumptions about why customers choose you and explore what genuinely differentiates your business.

- How to respond to disruption and change
Consider emerging threats and opportunities and explore practical strategic responses rather than simply reacting when change occurs.

Key Takeaways
• Greater awareness of the competitive forces affecting your business 
• A clearer view of what genuinely differentiates you in your market 
• Practical ways to identify emerging threats and opportunities 
• Ideas for adapting, differentiating and strengthening your competitive position

About the speaker
Tim Rylatt is the managing director of UK Growth Coach, an award-winning coaching, mentoring and training company. With 18 years’ experience in helping the owners of more than 300 companies make meaningful progress, Tim brings both significant experience and fresh ideas.
He is the author of 4 business books and is a level 7 certified CMI leadership coach and mentor. He is also a director in 3 companies himself, so genuinely “gets” what being a business owner is like!

For enquires, e-mail us on bgevents@bizgateway.org.uk

There will also be the opportunity to ask questions during the event.

Once you have registered, joining instructions will be sent separately.