Workshops & Seminars
Regsiter for the Small Business Workshops sponsored by the Contra Costa County Library and the Contra Costa SBDC
Library Small Business Workhops Calendars
- WorkIt
View a calendar of events for the S.F. Bay Area, or So. Calif.,or Phoenix or Sacto. Subject covered such as Entrepreneurship and Business. - California Payroll Tax Seminars from EDD Seminars for new employers, established businesses, and payroll agents. They are conducted at various locations throughout the state with no charge to participants.
SBA ONLINE CLASSES
- Small Business Training Network The SBA offers online classes: finance & accounting, business planning, starting a business, government contracting, surviving a slow economy, marketing & advertising, and business management
Online Resources
- BusinessBallsFree career help, business training, organizational development - inspirational, innovative ideas, materials, exercises, tools, templates - free and fun.
Kauffman Foundation
- The Kauffman FoundationThe Kauffman Foundation is often referred to as one of the largest foundations in the United States—or as the world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship.
- Kauffman Foundation - Research & PolicySome reports:
"Study Shows Bad Times Can Be Good for Entrepreneurship"
"Where Will the Jobs Come From?"
"The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur"
Small Business & Entrepreneur Training Programs
- A New America Community Corporation A new America offers a holistic three-year program, the Virtual Business Incubator, that assists new Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area to establish or expand microbusinesses.
- Contra Costa Small Business Development Center Educational events and seminars.
- Women's Initiative for Self-Employment Women's Initiative is a not-for-profit agency to assist high-potential low-income women who dream of business ownership.
- Regional Occupational Program (ROP) Technology Center The Contra Costa County Office of Education Career Development Department offers a variety of computer instruction on applications helpful to the small business person, including Web design.
- Regional Training Institute (RTI) RTI was created to meet the educational needs of regional business and industry partners and to develop a competitive regional workforce. RTI provides everything from one-on-one business assistance and consultation, to hands-on workshops and seminars.
- SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business The various SCORE offices provide various workshops and training.
- SCORE - East Bay Chapter 506
Staff Training Videos
- Give 'em the Pickle! - with Bob Farrell
Discusses the secret to a successful business, which is doing those special or extra things ("pickles") to make customers happy. - Stanford Executive Briefings and Trainings on DVD
Business leaders are invited to speak at Stanford University on business topics:
Safe Hiring: How People Can Avoid Bad Hires
Defining Business Casual
Preventing Burnout In Your Organization;
Sales As A Strategic Tool in Your Organization; Building Retail Brands to Drive Value;
Leading by Example;
Comedy Central Presentw the Essentials of Great Success
Safe Hiring: How You Can Avoid Bad Hires; Harassment and Diversity - Respecting Differences;
Creating the Future;
Coaching a Winning Team;
Entrepreneurial Process;
Structuring Strategic Business Alliances;
How Leaders Boost Productivity;
Power of Persuasion;
Building Intelligent Business Alliances;
Winners (Don't) Take All;
How Great Companies Achieve Great Results With Ordinary People
Value-Based Leadership
Value of Information
Stanfrod Video Guide to Negotiaion
Stamford Video Guide to Financial Strategies
Best Practices for Your Website - CRM Learning on DVD
A collection of training on dvd for use by small businesses:
Emotional Intelligence
After All You're the Supervisor
Remember Me
Curse of the Vanishing Employee
An Impossible Man Meets the Mummy, or How to Serve the Customer You Didn't Know You Had
We're On the Same Team, Remember?
Web Class Development
- Hope Foundry Learn how to create a web site or purchase from Hope Foundry.org. Hope Foundry provides websites with custom websites for clients, created by students in a free Drupal training program. Ten participants will be guided by veteran developers as they create a client's website. The program will cover everything from Drupal installation to website launch. It is free and no programming experience is required.
College & University Programs
- Entrepreneur magazine's Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges List of colleges with good entreprenuership programs.
- Univeristy of California, Haas School of BusinessOffers full-time and part-time MBA and PhD degrees, executive education, Masters in financial engineering, and undergraduate programs.
- Entrepreneurship: Start-up and Business Owner ManagementAn Entrepreneurship online course and training program from California State University, East Bay
- Brandman University - Walnut CreekOffers B.A. and MBA in Business Administration including and MBA Business Administration- Entrepreneurship
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