Business Seminars at BCCC | Eastern NC Now

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    These free seminars at Beaufort County Community College can help your business take off. To register, call 252-940-6375 or email continuingeducation@beaufortccc.edu. All of them except for the Six Sigma Yellow Belt are free, but participants are encouraged to register.

    Advertising and Marketing for Your Small Business

    Drawing attention to your business is challenging. Large chain stores, a challenging economy and the Internet have made the small business venture often times frustrating. You can discover what you can do to bring customers to you. In this seminar you will learn low-cost advertising and marketing strategies, create your marketing plan and how to score greater sales with current customers.

    Brian Cooke is a former instructor of management and entrepreneurship at East Carolina University. Cook has experience in business ownership, business consulting, business planning, product design, manufacturing, and supply chain management. This seminar will take place on Monday, March 6 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. It is free, but participants are encouraged to register.

    Succession Planning 101

    This seminar ensures success of any succession planning effort by providing tips, tools and examples of world class succession planning. This seminar will teach identifying critical positions that will be needed to support business continuity, selecting the competencies individuals will need to be successful in positions and to meet identified business challenges, developing a pool of talent to step into critical positions, reviewing potential position vacancies and capturing the knowledge that individuals possess before departing the agency. This fast-paced session provides participants with an understanding of the key concepts and tools for developing an integrated succession management process. It is free will take place on March 15 at 2:00 p.m.

    Managing People in a Small Business

    Managing other people in a small business can be stressful. This class offers a wide range of practical information that helps small business owners and managers to manage more effectively. In the program participants will discover how to find good people, how personality styles effect our leadership and management styles, how to "catch people doing things right" and retain good employees, how to interview for good work ethic, how to deal with under-performing employees and how to be a better teacher. It focuses on the fact that management is about getting more done through others, profitably.

    Mike Collins, author of "The Perfect Workday Book" and president of The Perfect Workday Company, has presented The Perfect Workday seminar for over 20 years for organizations such as IBM, American Express, Pepsi-Cola and the Duke University Medical Center. This seminar will take place on March 21 at 2:00 p.m. and is free.

    Fueling Your Small Business in NC

    The N.C. Rural Center is offering a free seminar for seasoned and prospective business owners who want to learn more about how to access credit and capital for their businesses. It will review the six basic principles many lenders use to make credit decisions and provide an overview of the resources available in North Carolina for small businesses. The seminar will cover the Rural Center's Microenterprise Loan Program and provide details about its lending criteria and application process.

    Participants will learn more about how lenders judge a borrower's credit risk, ways rural businesses can access start-up capital and helpful resources available to small business owners. This seminar will take place on Thursday, March 23 at 3:00 p.m. It is free, but participants are encouraged to register.

    Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

    Presented by NC State's Industry Expansion Solutions staff, Yellow Belt training is used by many organizations to introduce Lean Six Sigma as a means for preparing project team members, or as part of a larger LSS deployment. This session covers important tools and techniques for process improvement, including the DMAIC problem solving methodology. By building a common language and a basic understanding of key tools and techniques, the attendee is better prepared to support their organization via Lean Six Sigma improvements.

    This course requires no special software and minimal math skills. Successful completion of the end of course exam results a North Carolina State University Yellow Belt training certificate. This course provides an excellent introduction to LSS so participants can determine if they want to advance to Green Belt / Black Belt training. This all-day class will take place on April 27 from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and costs $130

• Contact: Attila Nemecz
•     Attila.Nemecz@beaufortccc.edu