Entrepreneurship – Module 4

eLearning format (Self-paced)

Whether you are starting a business or are already working in your business – Entrepreneurship has it challenges. Developing essential business skills and accessing coaching through the online Entrepreneurship Training Program© offered by Microbusiness Training Centre Inc. will give you a distinct advantage in the business world.

Clients can select individual Modules for $350.00 each which includes 1 hour of business coaching ($200 value), OR

take all 5 Modules which includes 5 hours of business coaching at the package price of $1600.00 plus GST.

To set up your User Account and arrange for payment, kindly call:  780-482-4490 or send us an email: trainingwarehouse@microbusiness.ca

In business, you must be able to reach your customers. By developing and implementing a marketing strategy you can reach and sell to your customers. Finding and selling to customers online in today’s world is essential to some businesses. Determine what your online presence should be and what elements you will implement into your daily operation.  Understand the flow of business from staffing, suppliers, location, equipment, zoning, shipping and other factors that impact a customer’s experience with your business. Developing good HR practices and hiring the right staff can make all the difference in operating a successful business.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • The four P’s of marketing
  • Develop marketing approaches
  • Online elements and social networking
  • Understanding business flow
  • Operations process and procedures
  • Process for hiring employees
  • HR practices and workplace environment

What Topics are Covered?

  • Creating a Marketing Plan
  • E-Business and E-Commerce
  • Developing an Operations Plan
  • Hiring Employees
  • Write Your Business Plan

What’s Included in Your eLearning Program?

  • Self-paced eLearning
  • 1 Hour of Business Coaching
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Entrepreneurship – Module 3

eLearning format (Self-paced)

Whether you are starting a business or are already working in your business – Entrepreneurship has it challenges. Developing essential business skills and accessing coaching through the online Entrepreneurship Training Program© offered by Microbusiness Training Centre Inc. will give you a distinct advantage in the business world.

Clients can select individual Modules for $350.00 each which includes 1 hour of business coaching ($200 value), OR

take all 5 Modules which includes 5 hours of business coaching at the package price of $1600.00 plus GST.

To set up your User Account and arrange for payment, kindly call:  780-482-4490 or send us an email: trainingwarehouse@microbusiness.ca

Every business is in competition and it is important to assess the impact a competitor can have on your business.  One of the most important aspects of business is to thoroughly understand who is your customer and then to determine if you are meeting their needs.  Conducting market research is critical to flushing out this information. Every business is part of a larger overall industry.  By evaluating the industry, you increase your knowledge of the factors that can impact your business.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Finding a competitive position
  • Who is the competition?  SWOT analysis
  • Researching the Industry
  • Understanding the Economic Sector
  • Why do market research?
  • Developing a market survey
  • Conducting market research

What Topics are Covered?

  • Analyzing the Competition
  • Evaluating the Industry
  • Researching the Market
  • Write Your Business Plan

What’s Included in Your eLearning Program?

  • Self-paced eLearning
  • 1 Hour of Business Coaching
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Entrepreneurship – Module 2

eLearning format (Self-paced)

Whether you are starting a business or are already working in your business – Entrepreneurship has it challenges. Developing essential business skills and accessing coaching through the online Entrepreneurship Training Program© offered by Microbusiness Training Centre Inc. will give you a distinct advantage in the business world.

Clients can select individual Modules for $350.00 each which includes 1 hour of business coaching ($200 value), OR

take all 5 Modules which includes 5 hours of business coaching at the package price of $1600.00 plus GST.

To set up your User Account and arrange for payment, kindly call:  780-482-4490 or send us an email: trainingwarehouse@microbusiness.ca

What is a Business Plan? A solid business plan needs to provide a comprehensive management plan which identifies all the things you need to do in operating a business. It provides a realistic evaluation of your chances for success and risks involved before you make a major financial or personal commitment. A business plan is a written summary of the requirements necessary to increase your business knowledge and make informed decisions.  It should become your blueprint to the future.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • What is a Business Plan?
  • What sections should a Business Plan contain?
  • Components of a Company Description
  • Legal Structure, Stage of Development, Investment
  • What are you selling – product or service?
  • Understanding Features and Benefits
  • Perfect your pitch

What Topics are Covered?

  • Planning Your Business
  • Defining Your Company
  • Defining Your Product or Service
  • Write Your Business Plan

What’s included in Your eLearning Program?

  • Self-paced eLearning
  • 1 Hour of Business Coaching
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Entrepreneurship – Module 1

eLearning format (Self-paced)

Whether you are starting a business or are already working in your business – Entrepreneurship has it challenges. Developing essential business skills and accessing coaching through the online Entrepreneurship Training Program© offered by Microbusiness Training Centre Inc. will give you a distinct advantage in the business world.

Clients can select individual Modules for $350.00 each which includes 1 hour of business coaching ($200 value), OR

take all 5 Modules which includes 5 hours of business coaching at the package price of $1600.00 plus GST.

To set up your User Account and arrange for payment, kindly call:  780-482-4490 or send us an email: trainingwarehouse@microbusiness.ca

Congratulations! YOU are about to embark on the most rewarding journey of your life. The Entrepreneurship Training Program© has been specifically designed for people just like you. Individuals who recognize that the best single resource they have is their own skills and talents. By putting those talents to work, you will be able to create your own job, your own business and most importantly, your own future.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Help you find the Entrepreneur within through a series of self-discover exercises
  • What it means to be become Self Employed
  • Taking Inventory – self awareness and soul searching, “check up from the neck up”
  • Goal Setting – choosing your destination
  • SMART goals – creating short term and long term goals
  • Benefits of setting goals
  • Tips and techniques for better time management
  • How time really stacks up
  • What is Listening – listening approaches
  • Seven step plan to better communication

What Topics are Covered?

  • Becoming an Entrepreneur
  • Goal Setting
  • Managing Your Time
  • Learning to Listen

What’s Included in Your elearning Program?

  • Self-paced eLearning
  • 1 Hour of Business Coaching
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Small Business 101

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Facilitator-led 3 Day Program (Classroom)

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Wouldn’t it be nice to be your own boss, work on your own schedule, and make money doing something that you’re passionate about? Millions of people around the world are living that dream and running their own business. This course will teach you the basics of entrepreneurship. You’ll consider if entrepreneurship is right for you and learn the basic steps of creating your own business. At the end of the course, you’ll have a solid foundation to start your entrepreneurial journey.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Assess your own entrepreneurial capabilities
  • Outline and evaluate a business and product idea
  • Identify your target market and customers
  • Develop your value proposition
  • Understand different types of business ownership and structures
  • Evaluate franchising and business purchasing opportunities
  • Create key business planning documents
  • Create financial projections for your business and gather funding
  • Create a product development plan, marketing plan, & sales strategy
  • Identify ways to protect your intellectual property
  • Describe effective ways to brand your product
  • Launch and grow your business
  • Demonstrate the behaviors of an entrepreneurial leader
  • Find appropriate resources to help you on your journey

What Topics are Covered?

  • What it takes to make it
  • Resources to consider
  • Laying the groundwork
  • Building on your business idea
  • Business ownership options
  • Key documents to prepare
  • Gathering funding and developing your product
  • Creating a sales and marketing strategy
  • Branding 101
  • Setting up your office
  • Launching the business
  • Keeping the business moving
  • Being an entrepreneurial leader
  • Bringing it all together

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Developing a High Reliability Organization

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Facilitator-led 1 Day Program (Classroom)

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eLearning format (Self-paced)

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Today’s world is full of the unexpected. System failures, terrorism events, disease outbreaks, and superstorms disrupt businesses every day, sometimes to an unrecoverable point. Despite these challenges, some services (such as power plants, hospitals, and airports) have no choice but to continue operating.

This program will explore how these organizations maintain high reliability even in times of serious crisis and stability. We will share their secrets in a way that can be applied to all organizations in order to create high reliability and continued success.

 

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Define the characteristics of a high reliability organization
  • Define key concepts required for high reliability, including mindfulness and expectations
  • Describe the five principles governing high reliability organizations: preoccupation with failure, resistance to simplification, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience, and deference to expertise
  • Audit activities at all stages to assess the business’ reliability

What Topics are Covered?

  • What is a High Reliability Organization?
  • Key Concepts
  • The Anticipation Principles
  • The Containment Principles
  • Auditing for High Reliability
  • Test Driving

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Working Smarter Using Technology Training

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Facilitator-led 2 Day Program (Classroom)

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eLearning format (Self-paced)

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Rudeness in the workplace is increasing to the level that universities are studying it. Everyone is busy, everyone is stressed, and most people take it out on their colleagues at one time or another. We’ve all been in a situation where we need to print something ASAP and someone has left the printer jammed, or we need coffee and the coffee pot is empty. Technology is supposed to make life easier and simpler, but most managers find themselves cleaning up the messes caused by too many gadgets. This program will show you how to leverage technology to work smarter, not harder.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Make your workplace a technology-friendly place
  • Make the most of computers, telephones, instant messaging, e-mail, contact management applications, and scheduling software
  • Communicate better with the IT department
  • Make the best software and training choices
  • Set an IT budget
  • Set expectations and responsibilities for security and privacy
  • Keep employees safe and healthy
  • Develop and implement a system usage policy
  • Implement policies for dealing with company property
  • Decide whether or not employees should telecommute
  • Make telecommuting work
  • Deal with workplace rage
  • Address technological issues

What Topics are Covered?

  • Making your company a technology-friendly place
  • Conquering computers
  • Communicating with the IT department
  • Choosing software wisely and technical training
  • Setting an IT budget
  • Security and privacy, including network types
  • Ergonomics
  • System usage policies
  • Taking care of company property
  • Time-Saving Tools (including telephone, e-mail, and instant messaging)
  • Telecommuting
  • Workplace rage
  • A policies and procedures checklist

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Risk Management

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Facilitator-led 1 Day Program (Classroom)

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eLearning format (Self-paced)

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Risk management has long been a key part of project management and it has also become an increasingly important part of organizational best practices. Corporations have realized that effective risk management can not only reduce the negative impact of crises; it can provide real benefits and cost savings.

The risk management framework provided in this course is flexible enough for any organization. You can apply it to a single project, a department, or use it as a basis for an enterprise-wide risk management program.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Define risk and risk management
  • Describe the COSO ERM cube and ISO 31000
  • Establish a risk management context
  • Describe the 7 R’s and 4 T’s that form the framework of risk management activities
  • Design and complete a basic risk assessment
  • Determine the appropriate response to risks and create a plan for those responses
  • Describe the key components of reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of a risk management program

What Topics are Covered?

  • Understanding risk
  • Risk management activities
  • Assessing risk
  • Responding to risks
  • Resourcing controls
  • Reaction planning
  • Reporting and monitoring
  • Reviewing and evaluating the framework

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Facilitation Skills

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Facilitator-led 2 Day Program (Classroom)

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eLearning format (Self-paced)

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How can you facilitate, rather than control, group decision-making and team interaction? With no formal training, people may find it difficult to make the transition from instructors or managers to facilitators. This course has been created to make core facilitation skills better understood and readily available for your organization. It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over twenty years of active facilitation in all types of settings.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • How to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
  • How to identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
  • The difference between content and process
  • The stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
  • Common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive

What Topics are Covered?

  • Defining your role and how facilitators work
  • Establishing ground rules
  • Content and process
  • Types of thinking
  • Dealing with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
  • Communication skills
  • Listening for common ground
  • Common facilitation techniques
  • Giving effective feedback
  • The language of facilitation
  • Dealing with difficult dynamics
  • Building sustainable agreements
  • Stages of team development
  • Analysis tools

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Conference and Event Management

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Facilitator-led 2 Day Program (Classroom)

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eLearning format (Self-paced)

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Although it does take plenty of creativity to design an event that is memorable and meaningful, it also takes careful attention to detail, adaptability, effective delegating, and a lot of work. This course will walk you through the process of event management, from the beginning stages of planning, to the final touches (like decorations, food, and music). While this course is specifically for corporate event planning, the elements here can also be applied to more personal event planning. Essentially, we’re creating an effective and well planned design that is ready for implementation and can be used over and over again.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Plan a complete corporate event, including an agenda, budget, goals, venue, audience, food, and whatever else your client needs
  • Keep your event on budget
  • Design an advertising and marketing plan that includes a comprehensive use of media, take-aways, and/or swag bags
  • Determine whether partners, sponsors, and volunteers can help to make your event unforgettable
  • Create an atmosphere of service that delegates will remember
  • Select speakers and a master of ceremonies to add impact to your event
  • Create a diversity plan
  • Evaluate the process once it’s all wrapped up

What Topics are Covered?

  • Event planning essentials
  • Budgeting basics and managing contracts
  • Using the committee approach
  • Connecting with partners and sponsors
  • Advertising and marketing
  • Selecting the venue
  • Feeding the masses and business etiquette
  • Celebrating diversity
  • Selecting speakers and a master of ceremonies
  • Adding the finishing touches
  • Event day roles
  • Closing the event and gathering feedback

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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