Build your business skills
On-demand training to help you assess your businessand identify the tools you need to grow.
Learn at your own pace wherever, whenever
Bite-sized solutions to real-life business challenges
Knowledge and expertise, from four universities tailored to your specific business needs
Access the fully funded online small business support programme aimed to help you answer your burning business questions.
OPEN SME is a free programme that helps increase sustainability, resilience and profitability of your SME.
We have designed the courses with the busy lifestyle of an SME leader in mind. You can craft your own route through the courses to adopt best-practice, bitesize management methods in the areas you need it most.
There are five key courses: Finance, Digital, Markets, People and Community.
Funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and delivered by the University of Bolton, University of Manchester, University of Salford, and Manchester Metropolitan University, there is no cost for you to access the programme.
Sign up now to gain access to the on-demand course.
What does the programme cover?
This online programme will help you identify and build on your existing strengths and uncover the areas for development.
We know your time is precious, so every topic has been honed down to less than an hour of screen time, start to finish, and a personal learning diagnostic at the start means you won’t waste any time on topics you don’t need.
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