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

Expert-led learning

Join a programme curated by 20 leading UK business schools, accredited by the Small Business Charter.

Plan your business growth

Release the potential of your business by developing a customised business growth plan.

Grow your network

Gain industry insights and work with like-minded business leaders.

Practical management training

Build your skills across all areas of leadership.

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.
Raessa Lea, Director, Towing Solutions Limited
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.
Raessa Lea, Director, Towing Solutions Limited

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.

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