The Help to Grow: Management Course is designed for leaders of small and medium-sized businesses who want to move from reacting to every challenge to leading with confidence.
Running a business can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also feel overwhelming.
When you're constantly solving problems, making difficult decisions, and keeping everything moving, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Many business leaders tell us they felt stretched, uncertain, isolated, or simply too busy to step back and think strategically.
If that sounds familiar, you're not alone.
This small business leadership course includes a combination of 12 online and face-to-face sessions, 1-to-1 mentoring, and peer networking.
Delivered by small business experts across 12 weeks, the 50-hour course is designed to fit around real life, so you'll be developing your knowledge and skills while continuing to work in your business.
To be eligible for the course, your business should employ between 5 and 249 people.
Over 12 weeks, you'll gain proven frameworks from a leading UK business school, learn alongside business leaders facing similar challenges, and create an actionable growth plan to help you build a resilient business. The 90% government-funded course will give you dedicated time to work on your business, not just in it.
By the end of the course, business leaders describe feeling clearer about their business's direction, better equipped to lead, more focused, and energised by new ideas.
Because sometimes the biggest change isn't your business. It's how you feel about leading it.
Government funding means you pay just £750 per person
of 1-to-1 mentoring
across the UK
of leadership training across 12 weeks
Running a business can feel like you're making every decision alone. Through expert-led learning and a network of like-minded business leaders, you'll gain fresh perspectives, challenge your thinking and leave with practical ideas you can put into action straight away.
Taking time away from the day-to-day isn't a luxury – it's an investment in your business. The course gives you dedicated time to reflect, plan ahead and focus on what matters most, so you can spend less time firefighting and more time leading.
The Help to Grow: Management Course combines online and face-to-face learning, 1-to-1 mentoring, and peer networking. With just one session a week, it's designed to fit around your existing work and personal commitments. You'll leave with greater confidence, practical tools, a more resilient mindset, and a clearer direction for you and your business.
We are delighted you would like to know more about the Help to Grow: Management Course. Before you enter your details, here is a quick reminder of the eligibility requirements.
To join the Help to Grow: Management Course you should:
Work for a Small or Medium-sized Enterprise based in the United Kingdom
Employ between 5 and 249 employees
Be a member of the senior leadership team and have direct reports.
If you are eligible for the course, and are ready to sign up, you can do this via the registration form.
If you are not eligible, then you might be interested in finding out more about Help to Grow: Management Essentials.
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Join thousands of SME leaders who have found renewed confidence, practical tools and a clearer path forward through the Help to Grow: Management Course.
Apply today and discover what your business could achieve when you have greater clarity and confidence.
