Help to Grow: Management – Hybrid Course for SME Leaders Starting 9  September  2025

Help to Grow: Management Course

•  Commencing 9th September 2025
•  Online and at UWE Bristol, Frenchy Campus

Help to Grow: Management is a 12-module practical management training course designed to support senior managers of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to boost performance, resilience, and long-term growth.

Delivered by Bristol Business School at the University of The West of England, Help to Grow: Management offers short, focused sessions to allow you to complete the course alongside running your business. The hybrid course combines online sessions with face-to-face learning, alongside peer support and mentoring.

SMEs may be from any sector but must employ 5-249 people, and participants must be at senior manager level.

The blended learning consists of:

• Practical and interactive face-to-face workshops at Bristol Business School, UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus
• Facilitated online 2-hour sessions
• 10 hours of confidential 1:1 mentoring
• Online peer group calls

Help to Grow: Management Course Benefits:

• Enhance your management and strategic capabilities
• Produce a growth plan for your business
• Build resilience to future shocks
• Learn how to innovate in your business
• Adopt digital technologies to boost productivity and operational agility
• Develop your value proposition and reach into growth markets
• Improve employee engagement and responsible business practices
• Opportunity to step away from the office for a few hours a week, gaining valuable “thinking space”

Help to Grow: Management is 90% subsidised by the Government. Participants pay a £750 fee.

Registration link and full cohort dates can be found on our website:www.uwe.ac.uk/help-to-grow, or contact the team on helptogrow@uwe.ac.uk.