Complete any element of the online programme at your own pace on your own time.
What will you learn?
Each unit within each course is expected to take an hour or less to complete, to help you fit learning around your other commitments.
The courses cover:
- Finance: evaluate pricing strategies and understand cost control.
- Digital: understand how to maximise the digital future including your digital presence and remote working.
- Markets and Models: keep up with quickly evolving business industry.
- People: lead, build and retain an effective team.
- Community: use Greater Manchester networks, support and opportunities to help your business grow.
Business leaders can gain new insights and practical tools across the Community course. This course will cover three key business challenges:
- Better together: a series of different networking approaches that guide you through practical steps to optimise networking.
- Sustainability: get answers to the big questions: Why is sustainability important for your business? How can you make a difference? How can you balance sustainability against your other business priorities?
- Signposting and support: understand the Greater Manchester business support landscape and unlock the funding, events and opportunities available to your business.
Our university partnership
This programme is brought to you by drawing on key research and knowledge from experts across, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Bolton, University of Manchester and the University of Salford.
Insights across the partnership have been distilled into bite-sized learnings to build business skills across Greater Manchester.
What’s next
Simply sign up to access the free programme, and you’ll be emailed a link to register and start your online journey to become more sustainable, profitable and resilient!