Support for SMEs
As an SME, business leader or entrepreneur, Nottingham Business School can provide the support you need to thrive.
Grow your enterprise
We are dedicated to catalysing positive change in the regional economy. We have developed a support package that will strengthen your leadership and management skills, elevate productivity, and foster genuine inclusive growth.
What we offer
We will work with you to identify your business needs and provide you with the most appropriate SME support. This will enhance your leadership and management skills, benefit your business, and be flexible enough to fit around your busy working life.
Bespoke training and consultancy
Drawing on a wealth of research and expertise, we can work with your organisation to co-create bespoke leadership development programmes linked to your unique business challenges.
Supporting your businessEvents and networking opportunities
We deliver projects that offer fully or part-funded support to help you grow, access talent, upskill your staff, improve productivity, create, innovate and become more sustainable.
Financial and Funded SupportAccess our student and graduate talent
We have over 40,000 students, with thousands graduating each year with the practical and technical skills your business needs.
Recruit students and graduatesConsultancy
We provide the opportunity for you to collaborate with our experts on specialist areas at the forefront of industry developments.
ConsultancyUpskill your staff
We can support the development of your business through our range of industry-focused courses including leadership, sustainability, technology, design, marketing, and more.
NTU Amplify Growth
Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), NTU Amplify Growth benefits early-stage and growing businesses in the Creative and Digital industries (CreaTech) or CleanTech sector.
Help to Grow: Management Course
The Help to Grow: Management course provides SME support to directors to help boost their business’s performance, resilience, and long-term growth.
The 12-week growth programme combines online sessions with face-to-face learning,. It is 90% funded by the Government and designed to allow participants to complete it alongside full-time work.
Women as Transformational Leaders
This course is for female leaders in organisations across all sectors who want to develop their capability to be a purpose-driven leader and agents of change. It is especially relevant for those in male-dominated environments.
Accredited at Level 7, taking the course allows participants to gain 10 credits towards our Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management course.
Find out more about the Women as Transformational Leaders course
Inclusivity in the Workplace
The course offers a half-day programme for anyone wanting to address the fundamentals of diversity and inclusion for business. Research informed and practice led, it utilises interactive discussions, case studies and peer support to explore the many aspects of diversity and inclusion at work.
Find out more about the Inclusivity in the Workplace course.
Exploring Neurodiversity in the Workplace
The course offers a half-day programme for those wanting to understand more about neurodiversity in the workplace, or to support their neurodivergent colleagues and team members. It may be of particular interest to those working in human resource management and equality, diversity and inclusion specialist roles.
Find out more about the Neurodiversity in the Workplace course
SME case studies
Sustainability and Inclusive Leadership: Rebel Recruiters
Since September 2020, NTU have delivered the Sustainability and Inclusive Leadership (SAIL) course for SMEs. Here's what Ben from Rebel Recruiters made of it.
MBA students provide Kaefer Limited with “thought provoking” results
Nottingham Business School Master of Business Administration (MBA) students provide Kaefer Limited with “thought provoking and challenging results” for their management consultancy project.
Get in touch
To find out how we can help your business thrive, contact us via email.
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