SCORE
Oklahoma City Community College and SCORE Oklahoma City present the Simple Steps for Starting Your Business workshop series
Simple Steps for Starting Your Business is a FREE six-part series of pre-business workshops to help clients reach a “go or no-go” decision for a start-up. The content is designed to work in conjunction with mentoring and includes homework for the client to complete. The program is not designed to provide all of the information needed to start a business, but rather to help the client decide whether he or she is ready to take the next step toward becoming an entrepreneur.
Location:
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
This spring, SCORE Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City Community College will be presenting a FREE six-part workshop series to help small business owners grow their business. Those interested can register on the Oklahoma City SCORE website.
Please register for each class.
If you have any questions about these workshops, please email our Chandera Smotherman, Education Chair at chandra.smotherman@scorevolunteer.org or Cecil Furr, Chapter Chair at cecil.furr@scorevolunteer.org
Session 1 – Business Needs Assessment
April 6 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
SCORE will work with you to complete a Business Needs Assessment. This will help you discover areas where your company may have an opportunity for growth or improvement.
This is the first of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business six-part series of business workshops designed to help you position your business for growth. The content is designed to work in conjunction with mentoring and includes homework for the to complete.
The first workshop will include an overview of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series and help your company start formulating new goals for growing your company.
Session 2 – Human Resource Management
April 13, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
In the session 2 of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series, you will be encouraged to take a close look at your companies and evaluate where your business might be weak. You will use this knowledge to determine if additional staff is necessary or if tasks should be outsourced to external resources to help achieve your company’s goals.
Topics Include:
- Hiring practices
- Employee training, development, & motivation
- Attaining peak performance
- Using outside resources
- Time management
Session 3 – Marketing
April 20, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
In the session 3 of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series we will examine marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach and retention.
Topics Include:
- Identification of clients’ marketing goals
- Social Media & Online Marketing
- Public Relations & Advertising Strategies
- Event Marketing•Cause Marketing
- Creating “Raving Fans”
- Evaluation the business and teams
Session 4 – Human Resource Management
April 27, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
In the session 4 of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series we will look at Sales. A constant goal of every business owner is increasing sales. This workshop will help identify strategies to do just that.
Topics Include:
- Expanding distribution channels
- Building and motivating sales teams
- Benchmarking
- Evaluation of the business’s needs
- Using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to manage and retain customers
Session 5 – Financial Management
May 4, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
In the session 5 of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series we will look at Financial Management. By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of financial concepts which will help you make better decisions for your businesses.
Topics Include:
- Working with trusted advisors
- Using financial statements to manage business
- Understanding and using financial ratios
- Managing risk
- Using cash flow forecasts
- Funding a business’s growth
Session 6 – Operations Management
May 11, 2023 at 6:30 pm
OCCC Keith Leftwich Library (building with clock tower) in room 403 (4th floor) on Main Campus located at 7777 S. May Ave. OKC, OK.
In the session 6 of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshop series we will look at Operations Management. This workshop is designed to help you as a small business owner learn more about effectively operating your businesses for profitability. It will introduce you to new ways of viewing operational performance data so you can instantly know the status of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive your business’s success.
Topics Include:
- Operations & company goals
- Identifying, managing & measuring critical operations
- Preparing for growth
- KPIs and dashboards
