How would you like to develop your management & leadership skills? We are now offering the Help to Grow: Management course in both hybrid & face-to-face formats💻 . Spaces are filling up for SMEs to work with our small business experts. Don’t miss out ➡

Take 4 days away from the day-to-day business operations to help you innovate💡 . The Innovation Retreat takes place over 4 sessions & includes an overnight hotel stay. We only have 1 spot left for September but we're taking applications for December ➡

Do you understand how your business could be maximising digital technologies?. Log into our online business toolkit where tips and insights are at your fingertips, aimed to help you learn which digital processes could benefit your business most. Explore >

How could a repeatable procedure when creating a product, service, or process help you achieve consistent results?. Chester, West Cheshire, and Greater Manchester SMEs can access funded workshops to help them adopt a culture of improvement. Get in touch ➡ cfegrowth@mmu.ac.uk

For the first time, Help to Grow: Management is being offered to local SMEs as a hybrid or a face-to-face course, meaning owners can choose how they want to develop their management & leadership skills. Autumn courses are filling up fast. Explore ➡️

Trends, patterns, and best practices are evolving quicker than ever in the business industry. Do you struggle to keep up while managing the day-to-day operations of your business?. Access insights to stay at the forefront of market changes ➡️

What have our team been up to this month? What is coming up that you can benefit from? What tips do we have to help you improve your home office? . Our July newsletter is now out with the latest news and events from our team ➡️

How do you know if you are wasting money? How do you know if your pricing is right?. Access the #OPENSME free business toolkit and access microlearning activities to identify bite-sized solutions to your biggest business challenges 📲

We are excited to announce that our OPEN SME will be exhibiting at the Northern Sustainability Summit on 8 July at Manchester Central. Make sure you visit our stand & catch up with the team. With only a few weeks to go, if you haven’t booked yet, explore➡

That’s a wrap for day 2 of our residential Innovation Retreat! What an empowering two days it's been, with fantastic innovations coming to life 🙌. Next step for these businesses? Working with our team to create an action plan to help take their tested innovations to market! 🚀

The Cheshire Innovation Network has launched 🎉, providing opportunities for business leaders based in West Cheshire or Chester to work with the Manchester Met business team to develop a new product or process!. Starting next month, explore ➡

Yesterday, we welcomed 15 local SMEs at the Worsley Marriott Hotel for the start of our intense 2-day residential Innovation Retreat 👏. We can't wait to see the outcomes as these SMEs collaborate with our innovation team over two days to help accelerate their new ideas💡

If you're an early adopter of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, our #GMEHC workshops are a must. SMEs can elevate their operations by leveraging the facilities, industry contacts, & tech offered through GMEHC. Fully funded workshops start soon ➡️

Don't miss this one-day event aimed at exploring the power of AI and how SMEs can leverage it to gain a competitive advantage. Showcasing opportunities and success to enable SMEs to unlock their potential. Register here ➡

Based in West Cheshire or Chester? We're accepting applications for the new Cheshire Innovation Network. If you are looking to develop a new product or process, our new workshops can help you to learn, and test, ways to innovate. Explore ➡️

Our next Innovation Retreat cohort started today - welcome to all the new SMEs! . We'll be working with them over 4 days to help them develop a prototype & accelerate a product/service launch. Don't worry if you missed this retreat, explore upcoming ➡

A very exciting afternoon for our team heading to the SBC Summer Reception and Excellence Awards where we're one of the finalists in the Outstanding Support for Small Business category 👏. Good luck to our team and all the finalists in today's awards 🏆

📣 Upcoming event for SMEs📣 . AI is no longer a tool reserved for multinationals with deep tech budget pockets, nowadays it is more accessible than ever but how can SMEs take advantage of AI ? 👨‍💻 . Join our one day event aimed to empower AI adoption👇

Behind the scenes, we are busy working on exciting new content for our free on-demand business toolkit #OPENSME. We are developing new modules & insights from our business experts to help navigate the key 2024 business challenges. Explore toolkit👉

Our CDI Roadshow will be in Trafford next month 🔔 . If you're looking at ways to harness technology to excel your business, join us on the 14 June. The session aims to help you better understand the potential & impact of new technology. Register⤵ .