Grow Your Business: Management Education Services

How do you plan for your company's future and not just spend your day putting out fires? How are you addressing and managing change in your industry? How do you measure your team's performance?

To help answer these questions, the SBTDC has carefully researched and developed educational products to fit the increasingly complex needs of today's small to medium-sized companies. Our education programs focus on change management, strategic positioning, and leadership development. Among these are:

Strategic Needs Assessment

This assessment helps owners and managers identify priorities and action strategies to evaluate their company in such areas as management vision, finance, marketing, human resources, operations, and information technology.

Master Entrepreneur Program

The purpose of this program is to elevate the management and entrepreneurial skills of selected business owners, employing a combination of workshops, individual counseling services and peer discussions.

Management Performance Workshops

The Management Performance Series is tailored to a company's priorities in such areas as team building, attracting and retaining key people, sales performance, customer service, and career development.

Strategic Performance Retreats

Strategic Performance Retreats assist companies in strategic planning and positioning to help them gain long-term competitive advantage.

Leadership Performance

Leadership Performance Workshop series helps participants enhance their ability to lead through inevitable periods of change and learn what it takes to be a leader of the future.

Change Management Performance (The SymmeTree Simulation)

SymmeTree is an intensive, research-based, two-day program that not only identifies change management skills but also allows participants to experience and practice them.