ENTREPRENEURIAL SERIES

Start your entrepreneurial journey on the right foot with this brief introductory class.  The course includes Entrepreneurial self-assessment, where to find business ideas and how to know if they are good ones, developing product ideas and creating value propositions and Identifying your target market and customers.

Fostering Innovation is one of the most important ways to help your organization succeed in today’s business world.  This course covers the essential elements of fostering innovation.  Through the materials, learners will understand ways they can create an innovative workspace, key traits associated with innovative leaders in the workplace, as well as specific processes and workflows that can be implemented to help their entire team become innovative thinkers. Having the tools at a teams’ fingertips, will entice them to come up with more innovative ideas, and increase the chances of success.

Ever wonder how companies such as Google, Apple, and Airbnb generate solutions, and create successful products and services? This course introduces the concept of design thinking, which advocates a focus on the needs of users and customers and results in better products, services, and processes. 

As the world becomes a smaller place thanks to innovations in technology and communication, it becomes easier for businesses to branch out into the global market. This course focuses on growth strategy that are needed to make your global business a success including trade agreements, types of trade transactions, e-commerce, cultural issues, currency management, risk mitigation, finance, logistics, regulations, ethics, and the triple A framework for growth and development.

This is ideal for business owners who have little to no business plan writing experience, and for business owners looking to grow their business. You will have everything you need to write a compelling, complete, business plan that they can confidently use to support their business growth., perform research, examine the marketplace, create a marketing plan, develop financial projections, and present a compelling.

This course includes everything that small business owners need to know about getting their message out there. Focusing on communicating with existing and potential customers, this is an essential skill that will help boost the number of customers and profits.  You will receive information on developing and conveying an effective message through a variety of channels, including traditional media and social media.

Smart entrepreneurs and business professionals are doing more with less using crowdsourcing. You will cover all the major types of crowdsourcing: microwork, macrowork, crowdvoting, crowdcontests, crowdwisdom, and crowdfunding. You will learn about each type of crowdsourcing as well as the general crowdsourcing process, the most popular crowdsourcing platforms, and ways to engage the crowd.

Making Your Business Better is with a comprehensive overview of the knowledge and skills need to ensure the viability of businesses in today’s world. The course material applies equally to product- and service-based enterprises.  You will introduce positioning and pricing; and guidance on marketing, relationship selling, and negotiation. 

Understanding your environment, consumers, and how as a small company can position themselves even in the most competitive marketplaces. Understand the marketing cycle, how people buy, strategies to implement on small budgets, and how to build a presence in the marketplace using traditional, Internet and Social Media marketing. This course gives small business owners, en

Successfully managing change involves taking concrete steps to make change more palatable by understanding people’s hesitation, enlisting the help of others, setting up plans, and dealing with stressors. These steps can also ensure that desired changes are implemented successfully.

Budgets and Managing Money will teach participants how to make informed and intelligent financial decisions. Rather than being omitted from the process, managers who don’t have a background in finance can fully participate in budgeting decisions and exercises once they have completed this training course.  You will be introduced to financial e includes lessons on basic financial terminology, budget preparation techniques, and tools such as ratio analysis, good budget decision making skills, and more.

Teams are the most important foundation on which successful organizations are built you will help business leaders create effective, motivated, and productive teams. These team builders will learn to: develop and enforce team norms and ground rules; generate and approach contracts; identify their own unique style and represent that in their team dynamic; leverage their knowledge to grow and lead effectively; build trust and develop the team’s maturity as a unit, and communicate with presence and impact.

If your business involves warehouse or stockroom you will want to know what comes in and goes out of the business. They must understand how to lead an efficiently operated and cost-effective process, with the right amount of products available. Terms related to warehouse management; goals, objectives, and measurements in inventory management; using aspects of the inventory cycle; how to improve inventory accuracy will be covered.

Everything needed to get new business owners started on the road to success inventory management, human resources, finance and accounting, marketing, sales, and even using social networking, need to help you prepare to manage a new business. In addition, your students will learn about different business structures, who is managing and who is leading, how to create a brand, and the value of a strategic plan.

Purchasing and procurement extends past getting the products and services that the organization needs at the right time and the right cost. This field has evolved to include relationship building, supply chain management integration, and communication with stakeholders to continually improve processes and results. Some of the topics covered include: The value of procurement; The five rights of purchasing; Checklist for supplier evaluation; The purchasing cycle; Managing competitive bidding with RFPs and RFQs; Techniques for successful negotiation; Risk management; Agile procurement.  Tools of the trade, such as EDI, ERP, and e-commerce are covered as well.

It can be challenging to accurately determine the duration of a project, yet that is exactly what is expected on a regular basis!  This course will not disclose the secret of creating an accurate schedule, because there isn’t one. However, it will provide the factors and fundamental elements that people need to consider and address when creating any type of schedule. Participants should complete the Intermediate Project Management prior to this course, or have equivalent knowledge, in order to capitalize on the best learning experience possible.

Project management is no longer only for huge projects worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Small projects can also benefit from project management tools. These time-tested tools can help get that small project done well, under budget, and on time. This is not intended for those who want to be certified as project managers, but rather for those who complete projects at work from time to time.  You will gain experience using the most common project management execution tools and make their small projects more successful than ever with a look at a project planning document all the way through the various life-cycle stages of a project, to wrapping it up with a successful closing.

For participants who already know about project life cycles, goal setting, creating a vision, and statement of work, this will be ideal for further skill development. You will learn to approach projects at a deeper level, and to function within a project team.  Topics include: identifying a project’s tasks and resources; prioritizing with the Work Breakdown Structure; using tools such as Gantt charts, PERT diagrams, and network diagrams; identifying and manage risk, change process; and more.

In this course you will be building on your understanding of the Fundamentals and Intermediate Project Management training courses. You will think critically when choosing a project team; make the best of an assigned project team; help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning unit; maximize productivity at team meetings; reward and motivate a team; develop and execute a communication plan; communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively; identify strategies for working with team members who cause problems.

This training provides the tools you need to complete a Project.  Microsoft Project 2013 Core Essentials covers the basics of Setting up a project, scheduling work, managing resources, creating a timeline, managing tasks, working with deadlines and constraints, working with data, and creating reports and more.