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Business Plan 101
June 25, 2024
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Whether your business is still a dream or well underway, a thoughtful business plan can add significantly to your success. Preparing the plan helps identify critical business elements, answers essential questions about profitability and provides a continuing roadmap for both today’s management and tomorrow’s growth. Lastly, a business plan sends a clear message to customers, investors and competitors that you understand your business, its challenges and its opportunities.
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Business Plan 201
June 27, 2024
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
In Business Plan 101, participants learned about the basic elements and key questions to be considered when thinking about starting a business. Often described as “Business Plan Lite,” the workshop helped determine whether a business idea was both feasible and practical.
Business Plan 201 will help participants present their business idea to lenders, investors and customers while providing a roadmap for its successful operation and management.
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Leading Edge
Strategic Planning Series
July - 4 week intensive
https://larimersbdc.org/leading-edge-for-entrepreneurs/
Partial scholarships available thanks to CHFA!
Communication Series - 3 part series
September 17, 2024
September 24, 2024
October 1, 2024
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Topics being covered in this series will include:
Email is part of our daily work lives, but it’s also integral for building relationships with leads and maintaining relationships with customers, partners, and employees. In this class, you will learn how to write messages with the audience in mind.
Listening can be challenging since we often want to present our own ideas, but listening is an important part of communication. Because we are also the recipients of others’ ideas, developing listening skills can help us establish credibility with our colleagues, demonstrate empathy, avert difficult situations and conversations, overcome obstacles, and generally help us be better leaders.
You don’t have to be a professional writer to do your job, BUT you can use strategies professional writers use to make your job easier. This class will teach you a 7-question process–developed through research on how professional writers plan, neuroscience, and effective outcomes–so that you can write anything faster and better.
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Email: A critical tool for managing and building relationships
September 17, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Email is part of our daily work lives, but it’s also integral for building relationships with leads and maintaining relationships with customers, partners, and employees.
In this class, you will learn how to write messages with the audience in mind.
You will learn relevant concepts through examples and then practice applying such strategies to a sample message.
Specifically, we’ll look at how to start, end, and format your message; provide relevant context; ask questions; and sound “nice” so your messages are easy for others to read and establish your credibility.
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Listening is hard: Become an effective listener to help your customers, partners, and employees feel heard.
September 24, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Listening can be challenging since we often want to present our own ideas, but listening is an important part of communication. Because we are also the recipients of others’ ideas, developing listening skills can help us establish credibility with our colleagues, demonstrate empathy, avert difficult situations and conversations, overcome obstacles, and generally help us be better leaders.
This class will provide you strategies for effective listening at work and opportunities to practice each of these strategies in context so you feel comfortable applying these strategies in new situations. Specifically, we’ll review ways you can become a better listener, including non-verbal communication, mimicry/mirroring, reflecting, and asking questions.
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Planning: Learn what to do before you write anything
October 1, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
You probably write a lot, emails, text messages, and reports, in order to do the work of your business.
Despite all this writing, chances are that you probably haven’t been trained as a writer.
You don’t have to be a professional writer to do your job, BUT you can use strategies professional writers use to make your job easier.
This class will teach you a 7-question process–developed through research on how professional writers plan, neuroscience, and effective outcomes–so that you can write anything faster and better.
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