Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: 5 Key Steps to Designing Your Business
Are you an entrepreneur thinking of starting a business or are you already in business and not sure if you have completed all the necessary steps to be an established entity or successful business? This workshop is designed to help entrepreneurs with start-ups and established businesses to examine the feasibility of their small business idea in the current market, examine entrepreneur readiness, business plan development, entity formation, managing risk, and various ways to fund or bootstrap the business.
Speaker(s): WBCC
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Learn to Lead: How Business Owners Develop Other Leaders
The dream most business owners share is that someday, they will be able to depend on other leaders to run their business. But how does one get to that point? It all begins with how you, as the leader, develop other leaders in your small business. In this workshop, Julie will share how to identify, select, develop, and mentor the next generation of leaders within your company.
Speaker(s): Julie Bee
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Learn to Lead: Build a Positive and Thriving Small Business Culture
If getting your employees to do what you want them to do is a challenge, this workshop is for you. Small businesses with a positive and thriving culture are more productive, more profitable, and have happier employees. In this workshop, Julie shares how to build a positive workplace culture in your own small business. You’ll also learn how to course-correct if your workplace culture has gotten off track.
Speaker(s): Julie Bee
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Learn to Lead: 7 Leadership Failures and How to Overcome Them
Great leaders do not become great leaders over night. In her work with business leaders, Julie has found that leaders often go through several of these 7 critical failures that land them between a rock and a hard place. In this workshop, Julie will share each of these critical failures, how to recognize them, overcome each one, and prevent those failures from happening again.
If you’re a business owner this session and series is for you! Learning to lead as a business owner will help you drive your team and your business forward.
Speaker(s): Julie Bee
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Building Your Online Presence
Part 1: Showing up when customers are searching online is more important than ever. Ensure customers can find accurate, updated information about your local business on Google Search and Google Maps, no matter which device they use. In this workshop, you will learn how to create and manage a Google business profile from start to finish.
In this session we’ll show you how to:
• Create or claim your Business Profile on Google
• Manage your business info across Google Search and Maps
• Use Google My Business to connect with potential customer
Part 2: Discover how to create a search-friendly website that drives user action and supports their goals. Whether launching a new website or sprucing up an old one, this workshop will help.
Speaker(s): Linda Hughes
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Charlotte MED Week 2021
Engage, Elevate, Empower
Charlotte MED Week 2021 | October 11-14, 2021
Join business, government, and community leaders at the eleventh annual Charlotte Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week celebration honoring outstanding minority, women-owned and small businesses and the agencies and individuals who support a diverse marketplace. We will have virtual professional development workshops with the business connections expo and awards and recognition celebration occurring in person. All events will commemorate the achievements of minority, women and small entrepreneurs and affirm our community’s commitment to the principle of equal opportunity.
All virtual events will be hosted on the Whova Event App. Please, download directly from the Apple Store or Google Play on your phone or device.
No cost to attend workshops, Career Fair or Expo. Pre-registration is required for all events.
Speaker(s): Various
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Are You HUB Certified for North Carolina?
If you are a woman, minority, or disabled business owner, come join us and learn how to position your company to do business with the State of North Carolina.
State government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the state. Many state contract opportunities contain participation goals for Historically Underutilized Businesses (minority and women-owned businesses).
This HUB certification training will feature:
• A review of the complete Statewide Uniform Certification HUB Certification application process.
• Assistance through the process of registering on the Electronic Vendor Portal (eVP)
• Answers to the most common application questions
• Guidance on how to grow and market your business for success in state government
Plan NOW to leverage this resource to create a competitive advantage in your market
Speaker(s): Sharonetta McIntyre
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: Let’s Talk Withholding Taxes with NCDOR & IRS
This webinar will help participants better understand their withholding tax obligations with NCDOR. Participants will receive instructions on how to file and when to file a withholding tax return in addition to learning about the basics of state withholding taxes, how to register for an account in order to remit withholding tax, and when State withholding is required for employees and other types of compensation.
Speaker(s): Evette Davis (IRS) / Jonetta Appling (NC DOR)
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: You Need Help…Need To Hire…But Short On Cash?
NC DOL will provide your organization with information and guidance that will help to gain and maintain compliance with applicable labor laws; training on compliance requirements, employer responsibilities, and application of applicable laws; and cover topics related to Overtime requirements, minimum wage requirements, youth employment, record-keeping requirements, wage deductions, exemptions, and employer-employee relationships.
Charlotte Works helps businesses fill new positions and also helps to upskill existing employees through education and skills training opportunities. The UpSkill Charlotte training grant helps businesses make a difference in their bottom line by addressing employees’ skills gaps.
Speaker(s): Christina Morales-Bebrin (NC DOL) / Andrew Davila (Charlotte Works)
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Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: 5 Key Steps to Starting and Designing Your Business
A workshop to help start-ups and established entrepreneurs examine the feasibility of their small business idea in the current market. The discussion centers on business plan development, entity formation, managing risk, and various ways to fund or bootstrap the business.
Speaker(s): WBCC Representative
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