SME Events
Automotive Sector Roundtable: A Forward Look at Growth, Opportunity and Change
Manchester City Centre • 12:00pm
The automotive sector is undergoing a profound transformation—shaped by EV adoption, charging infrastructure demands, supply chain shifts, skills shortages, and changing national policy. Facilitated by the…
Good Employment Charter leadership series – Leading Forward: Lessons from This Year, Priorities for the Next
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 12:00pm
As the year draws to a close, this session creates space to step back and reflect on what has worked, what has not, and what…
Standing Out in a Crowded Market: Winning More of the Right Deals
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 8:30am
Standing out in a crowded market is becoming increasingly difficult, especially as buyers grow more informed, cautious, and selective. This session will help you strengthen…
Cutting Business Costs: Smarter Ways to Use Energy and Resources
Salford & Trafford • 8:30am
For many businesses, operating costs can gradually increase without anyone stopping to question whether the money is being spent effectively. From energy bills and premises…
Good Employment Charter leadership series: Leadership That Supports Growth and Change
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 12:00pm
As businesses grow and evolve, leadership needs to adapt to new challenges and opportunities. This session focuses on how to lead effectively through change, maintain…
Build It, Buy It or Partner? Making Smarter Decisions as Your Business Grows
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 12:00pm
As a business grows, it cannot build every capability, employ every specialist or pursue every opportunity alone. Business owners regularly face decisions about whether to…
Unlocking the Potential in Your Team: Building the Skills Your Business Needs
Bolton & Wigan • 12:00pm
Businesses often look outside the organisation when they need new skills or capability, but there may be far more potential within the existing team than…
Getting Your Business into Bigger Supply Chains
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 8:30am
Securing contracts with larger organisations can create significant opportunities for business growth, but understanding how those organisations choose who to work with is not always…
Homes, Workplaces and Growth – What Does the Next Generation of Places Look Like?
Salford & Trafford • 8:30am
Where and how people choose to live and work is changing, creating new expectations of the places around them. Homes, workplaces, transport, local amenities and…
How Business Owners Can Embed Social Value and Grow
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 8:30am
Social value can strengthen more than an organisation’s community contribution. When it is connected to business priorities, it can also support recruitment, employee engagement, reputation,…
What Do Your Customers Really Value? Turning Insight into Better Business Decisions
Bolton & Wigan • 8:30am
Businesses make decisions every day about their products, services, pricing and priorities, but those choices are not always based on a clear understanding of what…
Could Your Business Survive a Cyber Attack?
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 12:00pm
A cyber incident can quickly become a business problem involving customers, suppliers, staff, money and reputation, not just an IT issue. When systems are unavailable…
Understanding Social Value and Social Impact
Bolton & Wigan • 8:30am
Social value is becoming more visible in procurement, partnerships and responsible business conversations, but organisations can struggle to define what meaningful impact looks like or…
Where Should You Really Be Spending Your Marketing Budget?
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 12:00pm
With more channels, platforms and tools competing for budget, it is increasingly difficult to know which marketing activity is genuinely contributing to business results. High…
What Happens If Your Biggest Customer, Supplier or Key Person Disappears Tomorrow?
Salford & Trafford • 12:00pm
Many businesses have dependencies that only become obvious when something goes wrong: one customer represents too much revenue, a supplier cannot be replaced quickly, or…
Making Better Decisions with the Data You Already Have
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 12:00pm
Most businesses already hold useful information about customers, sales, operations and finances, but many still rely on instinct because the data is scattered, difficult to…
Taking Your Business from Local Success to the Next Stage of Growth
Bolton & Wigan • 12:00pm
The systems and habits that help a business become successful can start to hold it back as it grows. Leaders become stretched, decisions slow down,…
The Future of the Town Centre – What Comes Next for Business, Property and Place?
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 8:30am
Stockport town centre has already undergone significant change, bringing new homes, development and activity into the area. The next question is how that momentum can…
Taking Your Business into New Markets – Where Should You Grow Next?
Salford & Trafford • 8:30am
Expanding into a new market can unlock significant growth, whether that means moving into the next city, reaching customers and clients elsewhere in the UK…
The Skills Gap You Can See Coming – Building Your Future Workforce
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 8:30am
Recruiting only when a vacancy appears can leave businesses competing for skills that are already in short supply. As technology, customer expectations and job roles…
Beyond ChatGPT: Practical Ways to Use AI Across Your Business
Bolton & Wigan • 12:00pm
Many businesses have experimented with tools such as ChatGPT, but the bigger opportunity is using AI to improve how work moves through the organisation. That…
Turning Innovation into Revenue and Business Growth
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 12:00pm
Businesses rarely struggle to generate ideas; the harder part is deciding which ideas can become something customers will pay for or that meaningfully improves performance.…
Who Will You Meet? Salford & Trafford Business Networking
Salford & Trafford • 12:00pm
You never know which conversation could lead somewhere. Join businesses from across Salford, Trafford and the wider Greater Manchester business community for relaxed networking and…
Where Is Your Business Losing Time and Money? Fixing Everyday Inefficiency
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 12:00pm
Growth is harder when time is being lost to duplicated work, slow approvals, manual processes and systems that do not speak to each other. These…
From Investment to Opportunity – What Does Regeneration Mean for Business?
Bolton & Wigan • 8:30am
Regeneration is often discussed in terms of buildings and infrastructure, but the real business impact comes from the activity that develops around it: new contracts,…
Getting Paid: How to Protect Cash Flow Without Damaging Customer Relationships
Stockport, Tameside & South Manchester • 8:30am
Winning work does not strengthen a business if the cash arrives too late. Slow payment can restrict investment, increase borrowing needs and create unnecessary pressure,…
How SMEs Can Innovate and Compete Without a Big Budget
Salford & Trafford • 12:00pm
Innovation can sound like something reserved for businesses with large R&D teams, but many of the most valuable improvements come from solving everyday customer or…
Winning and Keeping Valuable Clients: Building Stronger Commercial Relationships
Rochdale, Oldham & Bury • 12:00pm
Winning a new client is an important achievement, but building a successful business also depends on the strength of the relationships that follow. Understanding client…
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