Help To Grow: Management

If you run a small or medium company, Help To Grow: Management is the perfect short hybrid course to boost your leadership skills and business performance

Duration: 12 weeks (one session per week)
Cost: £750 per participant
Starting date: 20 November 2025
End date: 23 March 2026
Location: online (Zoom) and on campus (Greenbank Student Village)

Help To Grow: Management is a 12-week course designed to upskill SME leaders in key management areas, including operations and finance, customer engagement, sustainability, and strategies for growth and innovation.

Designed and delivered by University of Liverpool academics with substantial industry experience and expertise, the course it's full of practical, actionable learning that will help you lead and deliver long-term change in your business.

Accredited by the Small Business Charter, the course is 90% government funded, so you can access high quality training at a fraction of its cost.

Who is it for?

Help to Grow: Management is open to business owners, leaders and senior managers from all business sectors.

To join the course, your business must:

Be a small or medium-sized business based in the UK
Employ between five and 249 people
Have been operational for at least one year
Not be a charity - Community interest companies are eligible.

The applicant must:

Be a senior decision maker, such as C-Suite, Director or Head of Department.
Have at least one direct report
Commit to completing all sessions

Your business can send:

Two people if it employs between 10 and 249 people
One person if it employs between five and nine people

What will I learn?

The course curriculum has been created by industry experts at world leading business schools, to cover 12 modules divided in four main areas:

Part 1: Strategies for Growth and Innovation

Module 1 - Strategy and Innovation
Module 2 - Digital Transformation
Module 3 - Winning New Markets

Part 2: Engaging with Customers

Module 4 - Vision, Mission and Values
Module 5 - Developing a Marketing Strategy
Module 6 - Building a Brand Case Study

Part 3: Building a Sustainable Business

Module 7 - Organisation Design
Module 8 - Employment Engagement and Leading Change
Module 9 - High Performance Workplace Study

Part 4: Operations and Financial Strategies

Module 10 - Effective Operations
Module 11 - Finance and Financial Management
Module 12 - Implementing Growth Plans Case Study

How is the course delivered?

Help to Grow: Management has been designed to fit around your existing work and personal commitments, so you are only required to attend one session per week for 12 weeks.

The programme is delivered via:

Eight online webinars (16 hours, two hours per session)
Four practical, face-to-face case study workshops (16 hours, four hours per session)
121 mentoring where you'll receive access to personalised support to develop your business growth plan (10 hours)
Peer networking, including peer group calls where you can confidentially share experiences with a small group of other business leaders (eight hours, one hour per session two days after the corresponding webinar).

After the course, you'll also become part of the Help to Grow alumni network. You'll be invited to attend local, regional and national events as well as online webinars.