Business Skills and Enterprise
Join a business skills and enterprise in September
If you’ve ever thought about starting your own business or want to understand how businesses work, our business skills and enterprise courses are a great place to start.
You’ll learn the basics of running a business, working in retail, and exploring ideas to become your own boss.
Why learn business skills and enterprise with us:
Enhanced career opportunities: With a solid understanding of business, retail or enterprise, you can open up a range of career opportunities in a variety of industries. Employers value individuals with strong business knowledge.
Learn the basics of business: Explore important business and retail topics like budgeting, teamwork and communication. These skills are useful for jobs or for planning your own business ideas with confidence.
Enhance your creative skills: Through our business and enterprise courses, you will get the chance to enhance your creative skills by focusing on topics such as marketing products and services.
Find a business skills and enterprise course that suits your needs
Our courses are designed to develop your skills for the workplace. Before you start your course our team of tutors will carefully access your current skills to ensure you join a course at the right level for you.
These Enterprise qualifications, available at Entry 1, Entry 2 and Entry 3, cover key knowledge and skills required to run or participate in enterprise activity. You will develop skills, attitudes and behaviours that are useful in an employment context, through to taking part in enterprise activity.
View more information about Entry Level Award in Enterprise >
This course will help you to prepare and secure work in both the Business and the Retail sectors.
View more information about Level 1 Award in Business and Retail >
This course is ideal for you if you’re looking to set up or run your own business. It will help you to develop useful entrepreneurial skills.
View more information about Level 1 Award in Exploring Enterprise >
Career and progression
Studying a course in this area can help lead to lots of job and progression opportunities including the following:
- Retail
- Business administration
- Customer service
- Logistics
- Setting up your own business
Find a course local to you
MAES has eight education centres spread across Manchester. With majority of our learners living within 10 minutes of our centres, we’re confident we’ll be able to cater to your education needs where you are.
