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Running and growing a business : Skills and mentoring
Here's your guide to help you maintain and grow your business, with expert guidance and support.
Skills and mentoring
Connecting with a mentor or taking on training can give you the confidence and skills to grow your business.
Courses
Webinars and events: Start and grow your business with Business Academy
Watch our free, expert-led webinars and events to unlock new ideas and opportunities that can help you succeed in the UK and overseas.
Help to Grow: Management Course
The UK government's Help to Grow: Management Course is a 12-week programme designed specifically for small business leaders.
Help to Grow: Management Essentials
A free, online course that explains the essential business concepts required for growth.
Mentoring
Barclays Eagle Labs
An entrepreneurial network supporting ambitious startups and scaleups with networking, support and tailored learning.
The Association of Business Mentors
Helping you find professional business mentors who have the right skills and experience.
Made Smarter
Advice, training and support to help manufacturing businesses succeed through digital tools and innovation.
Search for mentors in your local area
Mentorsme.co.uk offers businesses access to a list of quality-assured business-mentoring organisations across Britain.
Research partnerships
Find expert research advice and partnership opportunities via the national research and funding body Innovate UK, and the Catapult network of late-stage R&D centres.
Get expert R&D support
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme links your business with a research body, providing partial funding of a graduate as an associate.
Using digital technology
Explore how digital tools and technology can make your business more efficient and learn how to use tools safely and responsibly.
Protect your business from online threats
Learn how to avoid, identify and respond to cyber threats to improve your security and business resilience.
Solve business problems with digital technology
Be the Business explains technology types in simple language, shows how they address common business objectives and provides practical guidance, action plans and case studies to help you start using new technology successfully.
Find the right technology for your business
Enterprise Nation's Tech Hub, sponsored by Sage and Google, can identify tools and approaches to save time and improve efficiency. Create an account to access the tool and get recommendations.
Learn to use AI in your business
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) AI hub, sponsored by Microsoft, provides practical guidance, videos and case studies to help you start using AI to improve productivity, marketing, customer service and decision-making
Get started with generative AI
Google's AI Essentials course teaches the fundamentals of generative AI to give you experience using AI to develop new ideas, create content and speed up daily tasks.
Find a mentor with Digital Boost
Connect with an expert who's been there and done that via Digital Boost. Access free advice and mentoring on all aspects of digital business, from strategy to marketing, tech to finance.
Resources
Find your local business and IP centre
The British Library provides access to the UK's largest collection of business and intellectual property information, via a network of local libraries, as well as a programme of business events.
Get intellectual property (IP) support
Tailored guidance, tools and resources to help your business identify, manage and make the most of its IP.
Innovate UK Business Growth
Helping innovators across every sector and in every part of the UK to grow and scale through one to one advisory support on innovating, funding and internationalising, and by opening doors to key resources.
Get legal advice
Lawyers For Your Business from the Law Society can put you in touch with solicitors with the right experience for small and medium businesses.
Understand your responsibilities as a company director
Understand your legal duties, responsibilities and obligations if you're a director of a limited company, including identifying the early warning signs that your company is in distress.
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Build skills to transform your business
A government-funded management course has helped tuition business Kelly's Heroes triple its take up.
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