Help to Grow: Management

Overview

Practical curriculum

The curriculum features:

• eight facilitated sessions, each one lasting two hours and delivered online
• four practical, face-to-face case study workshops
• ten hours of one-to-one support from a mentor with experience of running a business, providing you with personalised support to develop your own business growth plan
• peer networking, including peer group calls that give you the opportunity to share experiences with a small group of other small business leaders
• access to the Alumni Programme featuring events with inspirational speakers, business clinics and networking events.

Key areas of leadership featured

• Strategy and innovation
• Digital transformation
• Winning new markets
• Vision, mission and values
• Developing a marketing strategy
• Building a brand
• Organisational design
• Employee engagement and leading change
• High performance workplace
• Effective operations
• Finance and financial management
• Implement growth plans

If you would like further information of the Help to Grow: Management Course, please see the programme brochure (PDF).

Eligibility

Your business must:

• be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) based in the United Kingdom
• be from any business sector, employing between 5 and 249 people
• have been operational for at least one year
• not be a charity.

You must be a senior decision maker, such as Chief Executive, Finance Director or Operations Director. If your business employs between 10-249 people, please note that you can send up to two participants on the course.

How to take part

UWE Bristol deliver the Help to Grow: Management programme across the South West of England. Our courses are aimed at businesses in the following areas:

• Gloucestershire
• Swindon and Wiltshire
• North Somerset
• Somerset
• North Devon
• the West of England Combined Authority area (Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire).

Registrations are now complete for our current courses. We are currently planning our year three schedule with courses starting in September 2023 throughout the South West. Details will be available soon.

To register your interest in Help to Grow: Management, please visit our enquiry page.

Help to Grow enquiries

When registration opens for year three of the programme, we will send you further details about the registration process. 

You can find out more about the programme on the Small Business Charter website.  

You can also contact the Help to Grow team at helptogrow@uwe.ac.uk.