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Total of 48 hours of robust leadership training. Receive all 6 trainings for the price of 5. 

Effectively communicate a new concept, process, or data. It is imperative to have strong communication skills to have successful internal and external business processes.  Learn how communication is strategic when it is entirely consistent with the organization's mission, vision, and values and when it is able to enhance the strategic positioning and competitiveness of its competitors.  

Intentional and Authentic leadership involves purposeful decision-making and action. It is about setting clear and precise direction and aligning efforts with the organization's mission to support the overall vision and direction of the organization. Learn how to become a more effective leader by intentionally building meaningful relationships for improved employment retention, establishing trust with authenticity, and cultivating a positive work environment to produce a high-productivity teams.

Solution planning is the process of determining the best practice to satisfy the requirements for an output. In this course, you will evaluate baseline requirements and develop alternative innovative solutions to achieve them. Learn how to help your team identify objectives and develop practical strategies to achieve them. As a leader, you will help your team foster positive mindsets and take actionable steps toward desired outcomes. 

Effective program development is crucial for organizations aiming to create impactful and sustainable initiatives. An effective program development process aligns with the organization’s strategic plan. In this course, you will ensure your program design correlates with the mission, demonstrates it meets the needs of your consumers, establishes strategic meaningful partnerships, and develops a sustainability plan to ensure the program’s longevity beyond initial funding. 

Engaging various stakeholders is crucial for effective leaders to accomplish successful strategic planning. It involves identifying, understanding, and involving people with a stake in the plan's outcome. Effective stakeholder engagement management requires a comprehensive approach that includes ongoing communication, listening, and collaboration. Learn how to understand needs, manage expectations and feedback looping to create long lasting community partnerships. 

Develop the skills to write awarding proposals that set you apart. Learn how to write proposals that provide clear program purpose, laser-focused objectives, innovation, and sustainable approaches to systemic problems, with measurable and specific outcomes. 

Total of 40 hours of robust board training. Receive all 5 trainings for the price of 4.  

One of the fundamental challenges of a Board is understanding its roles and responsibilities. Learn about the board purpose and structure and how each board member role supports the bigger vision of the organization.  

Bylaws are your nonprofit's internal operating and governance  manual on how to do business. The bylaws the board adopts establishes how your nonprofit is run. Understand your bylaws, how to run elections, nominate officers, make amendments, holding important meetings and properly maintain records in compliance.

Explore the features of an inclusive board culture and its role in leveraging diverse talent. Learn how to effectively cultivate diversity in your board.

A strategic plan  serves as a guide and tool for assessing progress. Working side-by-side with leadership staff of the organization, the board should play an active role. Learn how to develop, approve, and support the organization’s strategic planning. 

Identify best practices and gain the tools to implement them. Learn how to cultivate a collaborative board culture to maximize board effectiveness.

Receive all 5 trainings. 

Learn the principles and fundamentals to operating your own business. Understand the difference between each business structure, corporation, LLC, non-profit etc. to the legal steps and responsibilities of forming your own business. Business liability and consent. Safety and compliance and how to develop a strong mission, vison and values statement. 

Learn about the importance of branding and how to establish your brand identity. Identity your target audience/customer and develop an effective competitive marketing strategy.

Understand and conduct your market analysis. Effectively price your produce and/or service. Develop a start-up budget, a fundraising plan and allocate various funding resources.

Learn how to create and maintain your website to market your product and/or service. Understand e-commerce and how to sell your product online.

Develop a business strategy plan for year 1, 2 and 5 of your business. Create a business plan that will help you successfully navigate and grow your business. 

“Be Your Own Boss” workbook can help you develop skills and achieve your goals:

• Refine your ideas: Consider your business dreams, entrepreneurial ideals, and "why" 
• Develop skills: Improve your creativity, analytical skills, and ability to work through challenges 
• Identify strengths: Use assessments to identify your strengths and areas that need improvement 
• Create a strategy: Analyze your competitor or develop a strategy for your own.

We all utilize our upbringing, culture and values to filter daily interactions. This is called Implicit Bias also known as unconscious bias. In the workplace this can affect hiring, promotions, evaluations, dismissals, customer service, sales and safety. Unconscious bias unaddressed can create an organizational culture that lacks diversity and cause accidental discrimination. This course focused on raising awareness of unconscious bias and steps individuals can take to prevent.

Receive all 3 training. 

CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It can help save a life during cardiac arrest, when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.  Learn how to effectively give CPR to an Adult, child or Infant. This course is required in some fields and professions.  You’ll learn to perform one-person CPR, CPR with rescue breaths, Hands-Only CPR, how to administer CPR as part of a 2 rescuer team and more.

First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with either a minor or serious illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery until medical services arrive. First Aid course work will cover how to control bleeding; what to do in the event of a head, neck or back injury; how to assess and treat injuries to limbs; how to respond to burns; how to treat minor injuries etc.

 An AED, or automated external defibrillator, is used to help those experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. It's a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, medical device that can analyze the heart's rhythm and, if necessary, deliver an electrical shock, or defibrillation, to help the heart re-establish an effective rhythm. Learn when and how to  administer a shock from an AED.