Business Growth Essentials
Develop the skills you need to position your business for growth.
Aligning Your Business For Growth
All businesses want to grow but most don’t have a strategy to grow.
Does your vision and mission statement align with your strategy?
Do you know what to measure to know if your strategy is working?
Have you defined what success means in your strategy?
There’s more to growing a business than just wishing it will happen and we are here to help you figure out exactly what your business needs to flourish.
How to Ensure Your Business Stays Relevant
Your customers are a great source of information—listen to what they’re telling you; and equally important, what they’re not saying.
Some customers may even ask that you carry different products.
Customers are concerned about price and value. And more than ever before, customers are looking for connections to social causes.
Learn the most effective ways to connect with your customers and nurture that relationship to build loyalty and maintain relevance.
How to Prepare for A Loan Application
When preparing for a loan application, it’s essential to know your financial projections and how you determine sales growth.
Do you have a business plan that allows you to forecast your business’s estimated income and expenses?
Do you have projected income statements, balance sheets, and breakeven analysis?
Have you created a cash flow statement that includes loan interest and principal?
Learn about all the documents needed and the best practices when preparing for a loan application.
How to Stand Out In Customer Service
Providing exceptional customer service is essential for small businesses.
Today’s consumers are one click away from communicating their experience with your business to their friends and neighbors wherever they may live.
Did you know that more than 65% of consumers will pay more for good customer service?
Your hiring process should be in complete alignment with your customer service expectations.
Learn how to achieve exceptional customer service and use it to your business's advantage.
Building Relationships in Business
Relationships are essential in growing a business.
All successful businesses invest time and effort into building partnerships to increase sales or reduce costs.
In this training, you’ll learn how to:
- Identify important criteria for your business to ensure your advantage before entering into a partnership.
- Evaluate your existing business relationships
- Involve your employees in the process of building relationships with others
Developing Your Mission and Vision Statements
Vision statements are meant to inspire.
They define the future state of your business and must be understood by all employees.
Mission statements, on the other hand, are more actionable.
They state the purpose of the business and what it’s trying to achieve.
Learn how to develop your own mission and vision statements in a way that embodies the core of your business and compels your employees and target customers to support you.
Conducting Competitive Analysis
Don’t be complacent with your business’ standing in the marketplace.
Have you done research on your competitor’s strengths and weaknesses?
Do you know how to exploit a weakness to gain market share?
Do you have a thorough understanding of how your products and services compare?
The truth is you don’t need to spend a lot of money to be competitive.
In this training, you’ll learn the best and cost-effective ways to conduct competitive analysis to stay one-step ahead of the competition.
Creating Objectives and Performance Measures
To obtain the results that you want in your business, you'll need an objective and measurement criteria.
Objectives should be challenging yet measurable and guide you towards what you need to prioritize in your business.
They act as an alignment tool that ensures everyone involved in your business is working towards the same goal.
Without clear objectives, you'll have a hard time setting guidelines for you and your team to follow.
In this training, you'll gain a better understanding of business objectives and learn how to create them for your own business.
Building An Effective Social Strategy
We all understand the importance of strong financials and profits. Without profits, a business doesn’t exist.
But there is more to running a business than profits.
If our customers are supportive of social causes, like poverty, healthcare, and hourly wage, what role does business play in addressing these problems in the community?
Having a social strategy is a company’s way of telling its story, and being a leader in the community.
Speak with your customers and employees to share ideas.
Find a way to make a difference in the community and be a positive force for those whose hopes and dreams are still a work in progress.
Allow us to guide you through the process and help you build a social strategy that reflects the impact that your business aims to make in society.
What Every Small Business Needs to Do
Businesses fail not for lack of sales, but for a lack of cash.
In this training, we show you how to:
- Manage your financials
- Properly price your products
- Identify your margins and allocate overhead to products
- Use social media and advertising to leverage your business
- Understand your market and evolving trends
- Understand The Voice of the Consumer
- Research and study your competitors
- Exploit a competitor’s weakness to increase your sales and improve your marketing strategy
Learn about all the steps you need to take to ensure the success of your business.
Supply Chain Fundamentals
Evaluate your suppliers in terms of:
- Minimum quantity purchased
- Purchase price
- Lead time
- Point of origin
- Speed and flexibility to changes in demand
Are your products made in the U.S or imported?
Are you carrying excess inventory because of minimum production quantities and what is the cost of inventory?
Keep in mind that for every $1 of inventory reduced, that $1 goes to profit.
It’s important to focus on speed and flexibility.
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Aligning Your Business For Growth
All businesses want to grow but most don’t have a strategy to grow.
Does your vision and mission statement align with your strategy?
Do you know what to measure to know if your strategy is working?
Have you defined what success means in your strategy?
There’s more to growing a business than just wishing it will happen and we are here to help you figure out exactly what your business needs to flourish.
How to Ensure Your Business Stays Relevant
Your customers are a great source of information—listen to what they’re telling you; and equally important, what they’re not saying.
Some customers may even ask that you carry different products.
Customers are concerned about price and value. And more than ever before, customers are looking for connections to social causes.
Learn the most effective ways to connect with your customers and nurture that relationship to build loyalty and maintain relevance.
How to Prepare for A Loan Application
When preparing for a loan application, it’s essential to know your financial projections and how you determine sales growth.
Do you have a business plan that allows you to forecast your business’s estimated income and expenses?
Do you have projected income statements, balance sheets, and breakeven analysis?
Have you created a cash flow statement that includes loan interest and principal?
Learn about all the documents needed, the best practices when preparing for a loan application, and more!
How to Stand Out In Customer Service
Providing exceptional customer service is essential for small businesses.
Today’s consumers are one click away from communicating their experience with your business to their friends and neighbors wherever they may live.
Did you know that more than 65% of consumers will pay more for good customer service?
Your hiring process should be in complete alignment with your customer service expectations.
Learn how to achieve exceptional customer service and use it to your business’s advantage.
Building Relationships in Business
Relationships are essential in growing a business.
All successful businesses invest time and effort into building partnerships to increase sales or reduce costs.
In this training, you’ll learn how to:
- Identify important criteria for your business to ensure your advantage before entering into a partnership.
- Evaluate your existing business relationships
- Involve your employees in the process of building relationships with others
Developing Your Mission and Vision Statements
Vision statements are meant to inspire.
They define the future state of your business and must be understood by all employees.
Mission statements, on the other hand, are more actionable.
They state the purpose of the business and what it’s trying to achieve.
Learn how to develop your own mission and vision statements in a way that embodies the core of your business and compels your employees and target customers to support you.
Conducting Competitive Analysis
Don’t be complacent with your business’ standing in the marketplace.
Have you done research on your competitor’s strengths and weaknesses?
Do you know how to exploit a weakness to gain market share?
Do you have a thorough understanding of how your products and services compare?
The truth is you don’t need to spend a lot of money to be competitive.
In this training, you’ll learn the best and cost-effective ways to conduct competitive analysis to stay one-step ahead of the competition.
Creating Objectives and Performance Measures
To obtain the results that you want in your business, you’ll need an objective and measurement criteria.
Objectives should be challenging yet measurable and guide you towards what you need to prioritize in your business.
They act as an alignment tool that ensures everyone involved in your business is working towards the same goal.
Without clear objectives, you’ll have a hard time setting guidelines for you and your team to follow.
In this session, you’ll gain a better understanding of business objectives and learn how to create them for your own business.
Building An Effective Social Strategy
We all understand the importance of strong financials and profits. Without profits, a business doesn’t exist.
But there is more to running a business than profits.
If our customers are supportive of social causes, like poverty, healthcare, and hourly wage, what role does business play in addressing these problems in the community?
Having a social strategy is a company’s way of telling its story, and being a leader in the community.
Speak with your customers and employees to share ideas.
Find a way to make a difference in the community and be a positive force for those whose hopes and dreams are still a work in progress.
Allow us to guide you through the process and help you build a social strategy that reflects the impact that your business aims to make in society.
What Every Small Business Needs to Do
Businesses fail not for lack of sales, but for a lack of cash.
In this training, we show you how to:
- Manage your financials
- Properly price your products
- Identify your margins and allocate overhead to products
- Use social media and advertising to leverage your business
- Understand your market and evolving trends
- Understand The Voice of the Consumer
- Research and study your competitors
- Exploit a competitor’s weakness to increase your sales and improve your marketing strategy
Learn about all the steps you need to take to ensure the success of your business.
Supply Chain Fundamentals
Evaluate your suppliers in terms of:
- Minimum quantity purchased
- Purchase price
- Lead time
- Point of origin
- Speed and flexibility to changes in demand
Are your products made in the U.S or imported?
Are you carrying excess inventory because of minimum production quantities and what is the cost of inventory?
Keep in mind that for every $1 of inventory reduced, that $1 goes to profit.
It’s important to focus on speed and flexibility.