Help to Grow: Management Course

Course Overview: 

Build a community of like-minded business leaders while focusing on improving your resilience and potential for growth.

Help to Grow: Management is a government-funded* 12 week leadership course delivered by Aston University, a world-class international Business School. 

The course offers:

• In-depth leadership training provided by business experts both online and face-to-face sessions designed to allow you to complete the course alongside running your business. The course covers strategies for growth and innovation, leading high-performance teams, and digital adoption, as well as financial management and responsible business practices.
   
• Support to build resilience and develop a targeted Growth Action Plan for your business
   
• Networking with other ambitious business leaders
   
• 1:1 mentoring

Cost:

• The course is 90% funded by the government*.
• Businesses pay just £750 per participant.
• Eligibility criteria applies. 

Programme Eligibility:

• Be a Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) based in the United Kingdom
• Be from any industry sector, employing between 5 and 249 people
• Have been operational for at least one year
• Be a decision-maker or member of the senior management team within the business, such as Chief Executive, Finance Director, Operations Director etc.
• If your business employs between 10 and 249 people, you can send up to two participants on the course.
• Previous participants on the Small Business Leadership Programme can also join the course.
   

Not eligible? Try Help to Grow: Management Essentials

Following the success of the 12-week Help to Grow: Management Course, we have now launched Help to Grow: Management Essentials.

This self-guided, online course consists of a series of bite-sized videos and supporting resources. It also acts as a great introduction to the Help to Grow: Management Course.

There are several short videos which you can consume at your own pace.

Ready to get started? Complete the short registration form to get instant access.

Ease yourself in: Our first few videos are purposely designed to be an easy watch. Once you start, we’re sure you’ll be inspired to work your way through the first module, or the whole two-hour programme if you’re feeling really motivated!

Flexible learning at your pace: Nobody’s watching the clock, or logging time. You can work through the three modules entirely at your own pace. Little but often is a great rule of thumb to keep your mind focused and your learning brain engaged.

Schedule in a regular time slot: We find it helps to book out some regular time in your schedule each week and try your best to stick with it. This way you’ll keep the learning momentum going and boost your knowledge in a matter of weeks.

Support is on hand: Technical issues or problems accessing the platform? Take a look at our course FAQ page or contact our team at essentials@smallbusinesscharter.org who will be happy to help.

Next Cohort:

The next cohort starts in December 2024.

You can download the full schedule by clicking on the links below:

Help to Grow Management Programme Schedule Cohort 15 starting December 2024

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Hear from our past participants:

Build a network of like-minded business leaders:

One of the benefits of completing the Help to Grow Management course at Aston University is the opportunity to build a network of like-minded business leaders. When you complete the course, you gain access to a national alumni network. 

This will offer the opportunity to attend exclusive events, continue to network with your peers, experts and prominent business leaders, access new, exclusive learning material and continue to develop your growth action plan. Below is a video from one of our Help to Grow alumni events hosted by Aston Business School.

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Contact us: 

For more information contact the Aston Centre for Growth team or call us on 0121 204 3225.

Our partners:

Data privacy

The information that you supply on this form will be held and processed in line with the Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR and subsequent legislation.

Information will be used by Aston Business School (as Data Controller) to make contact regarding this event only to confirm details of the event, let you know of any changes and to request feedback following the event. We will also share your details with our partner Chartered Association of Business Schools in order to deliver the programme.

Our Privacy statements can be found on the links below.

Aston University Privacy Notice

Data Protection Officer: dp_officer@aston.ac.uk

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