Small Business Stronger

Originally developed to help small businesses survive economic challenges stemming from the pandemic, Small Business Stronger has since evolved to include in-person programs, online courses and webinars, focused on the employee lifecycle, economic mobility, and timely topics such as accessing affordable financing from community development financial institutions.

Led by dedicated instructors, Small Business Stronger courses are designed to put key learnings into action, with hands-on business simulations, real-world case studies, and immediately actionable ways to help your business reach its full potential.

Offerings include:

Quality Jobs Are Our Business

Explore a range of human resources best practices—strategies that can help you better support your employees and strengthen your company culture. Specifically, in this intensive five-week course, you will learn how to:

Encourage employee engagement and foster a sense of purpose in your team
Develop an inclusive workforce as you identify, recruit, and onboard high-potential employees
Unlock your employees’ potential by creating a culture of learning and development
Design employee compensation packages that reward talent and boost retention
Build a collaborative, effective, and empowered team

Leading Through the Lens of Economic Mobility

Learn how to cultivate a vibrant company culture where employees work collaboratively and productively to meet collective goals. In this dynamic five-week program, you will discover how to:

Align your leadership goals with employee needs for mutual benefit
Create high-quality jobs that support employee growth and business success
Build a competitive workforce through employee empowerment
Adapt to the changing needs of today’s employees
Invest in child care and other benefits that drive employee satisfaction and retention

Grow My People

Master the strategies you need to maximize your team’s success. In this X-week course, you’ll develop a tactical plan for hiring, training, and empowering employees—and delegating daily responsibilities so that you can focus on high-level priorities. Specifically, you will learn how to:

Assess current and future hiring gaps
Write job descriptions that attract the best candidates
Create and evaluate staff development programs
Delegate responsibility effectively
Construct performance management systems based on compensation and reward systems

All Small Business Stronger programs are taught by local faculty, as well as national experts, and will help you deepen your business expertise, build a network of entrepreneurial peers—and tackle the pressing issues impacting your enterprise.

Turnkey Programs
for Your Business Community

Is your organization looking to empower minority business owners across your community?

If so, consider hosting a Small Business Stronger program. We’ll collaborate with you to customize the curriculum—and create a high-impact learning experience that meets the needs of small business owners in your community.

"Once we got to the financial module I really realized that I need this program because I had just been checking my balance sheet to make sure that I’m in the black. But I need to be checking my balance sheet for operating metrics to stay in the black. So that module helped me tailor my financials so that I know where I need to be in order to handle this growth."

Eva Higgins, CEO and Principle, Cardinal Delta

"No matter what the business is, there are a ton of similarities in what needs to be done when it comes to managing people. All the same problems, hiccups, or growth issues happen to everybody."

Trey Runyon, Main Line Xpress LLC

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