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Welcome to our exciting lineup of Winter Courses! We’re thrilled that you’re interested in expanding your knowledge and skills with the Leveling It Up program By CEED.
Now is your chance & time is running out! You don’t want to miss out on this amazing opportunity so make sure to register for your courses ASAP.
Only eligible LIU participants can enroll for these Leveling It Up programs/workshops for FREE.
This 30-minute business advisory session includes a matching process where you’ll meet with a member of CEED's Senior Business Advisory Services team for the hours you feel you need to get expert advice and support your business needs. Navigating the complexities of starting up, scaling up, or transforming your business can be overwhelming, but fear not – our experts are well-equipped to guide you every step of the way! We understand how difficult it can be to navigate business development independently. CEED’s Business Advisory Services speeds up this process by giving you the clarity to make the best-advised decisions that will work in your favour.
Bookkeeping & Tax for Small Businesses will build on the concepts learned in Financial 101. We will dive more in-depth into concepts of business development & planning, proper bookkeeping and how to manage your records to best prepare you and your small business for tax compliance as well as strengthening the key financial concepts to maximize growth potential.
This half-day workshop will also provide participants with the necessary skills and create a blueprint for their customer service mandate. Whether a business is new or well-established, customer service excellence is essential for growth. When businesses deliver excellence, they keep existing customers, increase referrals, and continually attract new customers. Service excellence involves communication skills, from answering a phone call to facilitating a video meeting, working with big emotions, and dealing with constant talkers.
This is a 1:1 coaching session focused on restorative conflict resolution. It provides practical guidance and support for hard conversations with employees or clients, planning for uncomfortable but necessary change and organizational transitions, pains in leadership and team disconnects, navigating complex relationships with clients or employees, and finding balance and resilience in periods of high stress.
Introductory classes are 2h:30 mins long, and follow-on classes are an hour weekly
This training prepares start-up founders to win venture capital by focusing on the crucial Investor Question & Answer session. Are you or will you soon be pitching your business, marketing your services, or promoting your company to potential partners? This program will train you to differentiate your offering effectively, leverage in-person workshop online role-play in a Simulation Console, and immediate unbiased, industry-agnostic feedback about the founders.
In this full-day workshop, participants will identify the number of prospects they need to reach to meet their sales goals and then create the process for making this happen. They will define and refine how they sell and learn the necessary communication skills to consistently create revenue.
A self-paced eight-session online course designed to provide you with the tools to create a solid legal foundation while you grow and scale your business. Includes: Essential Contracts, Legal Structures, Copyright and Trademark Essentials, Website Legal Essentials and Doing Business Online.
In this half-day workshop, participants will develop a clear understanding of confirmation bias and how to avoid it. They will be given the skills and tools to research their target market and reach thoroughly and interview industry experts/potential customers.
Date(s): December 2024 (holds every Friday)
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am Atlantic Time
This weekly group session will help program participants integrate and implement the program materials. The goal of the content is to give business owners the tools to create a solid legal foundation so that they have confidence as they start, grow, and scale their businesses. The content is consistently adapted to meet legal changes and the changing nature of doing business. These do not constitute legal advice.
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