Leading a small business can be lonely. You are expected to know the answers to a seemingly endless list of questions. But, if you’re like most small business leaders, you won’t have had the opportunity to complete business training to help you lead and make decisions with confidence.
The Help to Grow: Management Course is a 12-week leadership course that will take you through the fundamentals of leading a business. Now in its fourth year, it has been designed to provide you with the knowledge, business frameworks and tools that will allow you to confidently make decisions, lead change, and better engage your employees on your journey. Thousands of business leaders like you are already experiencing the benefits of this leadership course.
92%
92% of course participants surveyed have improved the leadership and management of their business
89%
89% have made changes in leadership and employee engagement
80%
80% have increased relationship between leaders and team
How will the Help to Grow: Management Course make you a better leader?
Through a combination of online and face-to-face modules taught by subject matter experts, peer group discussions and 1-to-1 mentoring, you will develop your leadership skills and improve the performance of your business.
You will learn how to develop a strategy based on your business’s strengths and core capabilities. This will include how to better target new customers, develop more profitable relationships with existing customers, and engage your employees. By understanding a small number of proven business frameworks, you will become more confident about making strategic decisions. As you progress, you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and challenges with the course leaders, your mentor, and in small group sessions with local business leaders. You will finish with a Growth Action Plan tailored to your business, a network of peers, and free access to our Alumni Network to support you into the future.
50 hours
of leadership training across 12 weeks
10 hours
of 1-to-1 mentoring
60 locations
across the UK
90% funded
Government funding means you pay just £750 per person
Who delivers the Help to Grow: Management Course?
Designed specifically for small businesses, Help to Grow: Management is a practical leadership course delivered by Small Business Charter accredited business schools across the UK. Course leaders and facilitators are subject matter experts but many also own, or sit on the boards of, small businesses ensuring their knowledge and experience is recent and relevant.
The course is 90% funded which means you pay £750. The registration process is easy to complete with a few simple questions about you and your business. All eligible business leaders and senior managers are able to access the course. No funding application is required.
Designed to be completed alongside full-time work, the course:
Is delivered in 50 hours across 12 weeks
Consists of 8 online and 4 face-to-face module sessions
Includes 10 hours of mentoring and 8 online peer group sessions.
Each week you will explore a different aspect of leading a business, including employee engagement and mission, vision and values.
Who is the Help to Grow: Management Course for?
To date, over 7,000 small business leaders have enrolled on the course. Participants range from founders and managing directors to heads of sales or marketing, financial controllers and HR professionals.
Whether you need to lead your team through a period of change, identify new markets to provide business resilience or more clearly communicate your organisation’s sense of purpose, the Help to Grow: Management Course will provide the knowledge and support you need to lead your business with confidence and purpose.
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.
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If you want to develop as a business leader and be able to improve your company’s productivity and profitability, then it’s absolutely the right programme for you. It’s definitely time well spent. I think 99% of SME business owners and leaders would benefit from Help to Grow: Management.
Greg O’Connell
Managing Director GOC Construction Management
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93%
of participants felt the application process was clear and simple
90%
were satisfied and would recommend the course to another business leader
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