Help to Grow: Management
Find out how our management training can help your business to innovate, scale and strategise. Meet other growing firms and build your network.
About Help to Grow: Management
Help to Grow: Management is a unique executive development leadership and management course designed to help you to grow your business.
The course aims to develop your strategic leadership skills, with time to focus on working on the business and not just in it. Manchester Metropolitan University’s small business experts come from the triple-accredited Business School, so you know that they have proven experience in supporting small businesses to thrive.
Through Help to Grow: Management, you will:
- develop strategies for growth: entering new markets, launching new products/ services
- build an agile business that is resistant to future shocks
- improve employee engagement and productivity
- develop a bespoke growth action plan
- effectively engage with customers to enhance sales
You’ll cover essential issues for business leaders including:
- strategy and innovation
- growing national and international markets
- leading for high performance
- building vision and brand
- engaging and inspiring teams
- creating customer value
- adopting digital technology
- financial management
You’ll work with our university experts and get access to 1-to-1 business mentoring and guidance, as well as support from other business leaders on the course.
You’ll be required to complete all of the sessions in the programme.
Costs
The government will pay 90% of the Help to Grow: Management course fees.
If you’re accepted onto the course, you will need to pay £750.
How Help to Grow: Management can help your business
Work with Manchester Met
You get an outside perspective on your business which is useful, especially as the group is so varied, with everyone from entrepreneurs to SMEs with 100 employees.
You get an outside perspective on your business which is useful, especially as the group is so varied, with everyone from entrepreneurs to SMEs with 100 employees.
Working with business
Manchester Met is a modern university, with a long track record of education, dating back to 1824.
Our triple accredited Business School incubates and inspires entrepreneurial ideas, and supports business owners like you to grow and scale your company.
We’re an institution based on industry expertise and the practical application of research for the benefit of your business.
We work with SMEs across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
HM Government
Small Business Charter
What to do next
Check you are eligible
You’ll need to be a decision-maker or a member of the senior management team within the business.
At least one person should report directly to you.
Your business must:
- be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- be based in the United Kingdom
- employ between five and 249 people
- have been operational for at least a year
We cannot accept registered charities or not-for-profit organisations on this programme.
Register and join the course
Register for an upcoming course, or get in touch if you’re interested in future dates.
Help to Grow: Management 23 April 2024 - Hybrid
Help to Grow: Management 1 July 2024 - In person
Contact
Contact us
We’re happy to help if you’re ready to work with us — or just have questions about the management course.
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