{"id":19856,"date":"2023-03-22T10:40:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:21:51","slug":"help-to-grow-management-i-felt-it-was-time-to-invest-in-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/help-to-grow-management-i-felt-it-was-time-to-invest-in-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Help to Grow Management: &#8216;I felt it was time to invest in myself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gloria Opara, CEO of Cyber Engineers Training Programme in Medway is taking our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/business\/htgm-sign-up\">Help to Grow: Management<\/a> course. We caught up with her at the first face-to-face session earlier this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Having run my own business for five years, I felt it was time to invest in myself. I looked at the content of the course and felt it was something that I needed.<\/p>\n<p>The course is very useful, I feel very privileged to have the time to do this. We\u2019ve talked about strategy and innovation, Digital Adoption, Internationalisation and winning new markets.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is great just to know that there are so many other business owners in the same boat as I am, struggling with the same challenges, and hoping to gain further insights from this programme.<\/p>\n<p>I like the hybrid style of learning; I couldn\u2019t have done it any other way. Face-to-face is important but virtual also gives me the time to find the time to do it without having to travel.<\/p>\n<p>My aspirations are to scale, to grow \u2013 not only the business but to grow in confidence, as a business owner and this course is helping me to achieve that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/business\/htgm-sign-up\"><strong>Take part in our government-backed Help to Grow: Management Programme at Kent Business School. Available to leaders and decision makers in small and medium-sized businesses.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Opara, CEO of Cyber Engineers Training Programme in Medway is taking our Help to Grow: Management course. We caught up with her at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/help-to-grow-management-i-felt-it-was-time-to-invest-in-myself\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":19858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177066,124],"tags":[19149,244738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions\/19863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}