The document promotes the Pathways Advantage Programme, a training and skills support solution designed by Pathway Group to help manufacturing small and medium enterprises become faster, stronger, and leaner to outcompete rivals and ensure growth. The programme aims to equip businesses with skills to adapt quickly, streamline processes, accelerate new product development, and leverage digital technologies. Pathway Group can also help companies access apprenticeship funding and claims its training delivers immediate benefits to employees and businesses.

1. FASTER-STRONGER-LEANER
The Pathways Advantage Programme, to help you
ADAPT TO WIN
Pathway Group has been working with the Advanced
Manufacturing sector

2. Only the Fittest Business will WIN
DO YOU…
• Need to build a stronger proposition, than your
competitors?
• Need to improve efficiency and become leaner?
• Need to source new products and market faster?

3. Working with the Advanced Manufacturing
Sector
• The Advanced Manufacturing sector has one of the best
opportunities for significant and sustainable growth. However,
the rapid pace of technological change, severe skills shortage,
and urgent need to ‘adapt’ can make growth difficult.
• Pathway Group’s bespoke Pathways Advantage Programme is a
training and skills support solution, designed to solve the most
pressing skills issues facing Advanced Manufacturing SMEs. It
has been recommended to help your businesses become faster,
stronger, and leaner-enabling you, (no matter what stage your
company is at) to surpass your competitors, grow, and above
all, survive.

4. How can you Make your Business, FASTER?
• Become equipped with skills that can help you quickly adapt
to change.
• Streamline ‘processes’ to increase general efficiency.
• Implement faster-paced new product development.
• Accelerate idea creation and selection.
• Use digital technology/ digital media platforms for ‘instant’
sharing of information, data, and communication.

5. How can you Make your Business,
STRONGER?
• Make your products unique.
• Develop Intellectual Property (IP) to protect your offerings.
• Improve collaboration and partnering skills.
• Acquire leadership skills to manage change and growth.
• Refine your customer service skills and stand out from
competitors.
• Promote idea generation to differentiate your products.
• Make use of digital media and technology to improve online
networking.
• Learn new skills for production.

6. How can you Make your Business,
LEANER?
• Simplify processes and day-to-day errands, to avoid wasting
time.
• Strive for continuous improvement.
• Improve your working environment, housekeeping and
safety.
• Implement the latest ‘Lean Thinking’.
• Look after workplace to support your quality, cost and
delivery targets.

7. The Apprenticeship Levy
As a leading apprenticeship training provider, Pathway Group
has a great deal of expertise and resources to offer with regards
to the recent App Levy.
If your organisation is an apprenticeship levy payer, then we
would be happy to work with you and help you access the
relevant funding and support.

8. Delivered to your Company with IMMEDIATE
RESULTS
Most of the training programmes we deliver to employees are on
issues that are either project or ‘real-life’ business related.
We incorporate learning and practical implementation, for instant
benefits for your team and your business.

9. Everything starts with a conversation, so let’s
talk:
Safaraz Ali
Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/safaraz
Twitter Handle: @SafarazAli
Tel: 0121 707 0550