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BUSINESS STRATEGIC GROWTH TEAMS

  Feeling lonely at the top? 

Joining one of our Strategic Growth Teams
may be the answer!
 


Would you like to:

Relieve the "lonely at the top" syndrome by interaction with your peers?

Meet with your own personal advisory board composed of other business owners

from non-competing industries?

 

Discuss your business opportunities and issues in a confidential,

supportive environment?

 

Learn about and engage in the strategic planning process for your business,

enhanced by feedback from the group and your facilitator, an experienced

professional business counselor?

 

Set and work toward specific goals, aided by the input of your peers

and your facilitator?

 

Receive free one-on-one counseling from your facilitator?

 

How It Works:

 

Under non-disclosure agreements, group members from non-competing industries share their business experience and expertise, with the goal of helping each other grow their companies.

 

By providing feedback, training and process parameters, your facilitator aids the group in working through the strategic planning process and counsels each member in a private session each month.  Each member is responsible for setting and reporting on monthly goals, as well as engaging in the activities required by the strategic planning process and training activities.

 

 

Requirements

 

A company should be in business for at least one year, preferably longer.

 

Investment

 

For 2009:   $30.00 per month

 

 

When

 

Three and 1/2 hour sessions, once a month, date and time are determined by each group.

 

 

Additional Information

 

Peer Mentoring:  Input from your peers on your team can help sharpen your creativity and help you avoid pitfalls.  Being accountable to your peers for monthly goal setting and reporting helps keep you on track.

 

Strategic Planning:  Strategic planning adds value to your business through educating you about your markets, your competition, the business environment and brainstorming new strategic directions.  Strategic planning also helps you prepare your business to take advantage of change.

 

Training:  Each session includes time for training on a wide variety of business related topics.  Training is provided by your Team Facilitator and guest speakers.

 

Business Counseling:  Your Team Facilitator provides technical assistance during the monthly meetings and one-on-one counseling between sessions.

 

Facilitators:  Team Facilitators are business assistance professionals from the Washington Business Center at Community Capital Development.

 

 

 
   
 
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"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Wooden




"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."
J. Paul Getty
   
       
SBA logo   Sponsored by Community Capital Development, the Washington Business Center is a Women's Business Center, and is partially funded by the
    U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO).  SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products.
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session One - Introduction:  What is an entrepreneur?  What does it mean to be a business owner?  Feasibility and business planning.  Key components of a business plan.  Leadership and business ethics.

Session Two - Marketing - The 4 P's and the 2C's:   Customers/prospects.  Competition/industry.  Product/service, Promotions, Price and Place (distribution).  Market research.

Session Three - Marketing - II:  Competitive matrix.  Finding a niche market.  Selling and customer service.  Internet and e-commerce.  Developing a marketing plan.

Session Four - Financials and Money Management:  Financial statements.  Recordkeeping and intro to QuickBooks.  Budgeting.  Cash flow projections and management.

Session Five - Financing Your Business:  Business planning and financing.  Equity versus debt.  When to seek financing.  5 C's of financing criteria.  Preparing a loan application.

Session Six - Human Resource Management:  Managing employees.  Organizational chart.  Delegation, employee manuals, job descriptions, hiring process and employee evaluations.  Labor laws.  Employment taxes.

Session Seven - Managing Time and Managing Business Growth:  Design and grow your business so you can take a vacation!  Wrap up and presentations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session One:  Using forms, lists and registers.  Accounting basics.  Setting up your company.  Working with lists.

Session Two:   Working with bank accounts.  Using other accounts:  credit card, asset, liability and equity accounts, entering sales information.

Session Three:  Receiving payments and making deposits, entering and paying bills, analyzing financial data with reports

Session Four:  Setting up inventory, tracking and paying sales tax, doing payroll with QuickBooks

Session Five:  Estimating and progress invoicing, tracking time, customizing forms and writing QuickBooks letters.