Training

As the saying goes, ” You don’t know what you don’t know.” It is this lack of knowledge that causes businesses to fail. Whether it is the owners not understanding marketing, finance, accounting, or the development of human resources; being good at making or selling your product or services is not enough. Many that do survive merely limp along for years. Most of these problems could be resolved by management learning what they need to know to be successful business people.

We have several years of experience in providing business training at conferences and workshops in addition to teaching at colleges and universities. Not only do we make the materials we cover interesting and highly beneficial to our clients and students, we are experts at transferring our knowledge to them. We have been successful at passing our knowledge on to thousands because of our real-world experience and education.

Below are some topics we currently provide training on but can also develop customized training. Feel free to contact us to discuss your training needs.

Business Start-up and Business Growth Training Courses – We are certified NxLevel instructors and we provide business start-up and business expansion training. Our NxLevel “Micro-Entrepreneurs” course is a 10 week – 33 hour course covering the various areas of business every start-up business (0 – 3 years) needs to understand in order to build a successful start-up business. We also teach a 10 week – 30 hour course called “Guide to Growing Your Business” for more mature (3 years and up) companies who wish to grow their business and take it to the next level. These are ideal programs for those organizations or government institutions that are involved in economic development and wish to sponsor business creation/business expansion training for its members or constituents.

Top 10 Elements of Marketing – Covers the 4 P’s of Marketing: Price, Product, Promotion and Place, as well as their 6 sub-elements: Distribution Channels, Selling, Purchasing, Financing, Marketing Information Management and Risk Management. This knowledge will help you make sure nothing falls between the cracks in your marketing efforts.

Are you Export-Ready? – Exporting is one of the best ways to expand your market and revenues. This workshop covers the varibles that need to be considered before getting into exporting and will make your entry into the world of Exporting as smooth as possible.

Challenges of Family-Owned Businesses – How to Pass It On – Family-Owned business are different than non-family businesses. Some of these differences are positive and others are not. This class covers the dynamics of family-owned businesses and the many things that need to be considered it one wishes to successfully pass on the business to the children.

12 Magic Numbers: Understanding Your KPIs – Covers profitability, liquidity, and leverage, and cash flow. Designed to illustrate how to use your key performance indicators to maximize performance and ensure adequate cash flow.

Building the Bottom Line – Covers how to define your market in 7 sentences as well as understand the metrics of using image and strategy to press your competitive advantage.

It’s Not Just the Food: The Business of Restaurants – 98% of restuarants fail and it is not because of bad food. This class will teach the restaurateur how to avoid becoming a statistic by learning to think like a business person who happens to own restaurants.

Financing Your Business – Designed to teach you how to be a loan-ready business person. Learn about the types of loans a bank will make and how to prepare your loan request. Also explores alternative ways to fund your business.

18 Things You Need to Know to Succeed In Business – Teaches the business person to get to the point. How to plan your business no matter what customer you serve.