Register for Help to Grow
Our next cohort starts June 2024
Contact us for more details or to register: helptogrow@lincoln.ac.uk
Register NowThe Help to Grow: Management Course supports managers of small and medium sized businesses to help boost their business’s performance, resilience, and long-term growth.
This 12-week programme is designed to be taken alongside full-time work through a combination of online sessions and face-to-face learning. The in-depth, high-quality curriculum will support you to build your capabilities in leadership, innovation, digital adoption, employee engagement, marketing, responsible business, and financial management.
The programme is 90 per cent funded by the Government so you only pay £750. It is delivered in partnership with the Small Business Charter.
Participants on the programme have the opportunity to:
Our next cohort starts June 2024
Contact us for more details or to register: helptogrow@lincoln.ac.uk
Register NowThe 12-week programme provides short-focused sessions allowing you to complete the course alongside running your business. Delivery methods include:
Modules on the course cover Strategy and Innovation; Digital Adoption; Internationalisation and Winning New Markets; Vision, Mission and Values; Developing a Marketing Strategy; Building a Brand; Organisation Design; Employee Engagement and Leading Change; High Performance Workplace; Efficient Operations; Finance and Financial Management; and Implementing Growth Plans.
This modules explores how a business built a market-leading brand and continued to serve its customers’ needs through changing times. It also considers what challenges had to be overcome and how did the company stay true to its purpose and values.
By the end of the course, you will have had the opportunity to:
*End of Year 1 Help to Grow: Management Evaluation report, an independent evaluation carried out by Ipsos Mori in partnership with the Institute for Employment Studies (March 2022).
To participate in the Help to Grow: Management Course, your business must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) based in the United Kingdom and can be from any business sector, employing between five and 249 people. The business needs to have been operational for at least one year and not a charity.
The applicant must also be a senior decision maker, such as chief executive, finance director, operations director, etc. and committed to completing all the sessions.
Please note: only one person per business can attend the programme.
For more information please contact helptogrow@lincoln.ac.uk
Director of Keith Hanson Road Transport, Newark
"The one thing that I loved about this course is the people that I have met, from all different businesses and sectors. We have really been able to help each other and bounce ideas off each other and enjoy it."
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