Community Events Calendar

This course teaches project management techniques that will help you plan, implement, and complete projects with desired results...on time and within budget.  lern how to use project management tools tocreate cler project missions and goals, accurately estimate project time and costs, manage project scope, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems for project control.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1780

This is the executive forum that will provide proven techniques to help you manage your job better, enhance your professional skills, and prepare you to step up to greater leadership roles in your organization.  When you return to work, you'll have a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts.  You'll be able to confidently interpret financial data and answer relevant questions about your department and operations.  Beyond that, you'll have the business acumen to know the advantages and disadvantages of different types fo financial data and analysis tools, so you'll know the right kinds of questions to ask to accomplish your department's and company's goals.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1551

Skyline's free breakfast event will help senior IT leaders answer the question that CEOs today are asking: “What is IT doing to improve business performance in our company?” The breakfast is aimed at CIOs and other senior IT leaders who are interested in transforming their IT departments from a cost center into a strategic business partner.

You're invited to this year's Ideas to Profits Conference!

We have some exciting new workshop topics and three great keynote speakers.  In addition to information about commercializing new product ideas, we have scheduled workshops to help small business owners and entrepreneurs learn to apply innovative practices to promote growth and profitability.  Click here for more info.

Please contact  UW Madison SBDC for more info and to register.  Class size is limited to encourage interaction. 

If you are: leading a growing business, supervising employees, hiring and training supervisors/managers, new in a supervisory  leadership role, dealing with employee problems, experiencing undesired turnover this series is for you.  Whether you own or manage a business, supervise employees, lead a team, or are a potential suupervisory candidate, this series can help you better understand your role and develop the necessary communication and leadership skills to be successful.  Click here for more info. 

Please contact UW SBDC to register or for more info.  Class size is limited to encourage interaction.

Managing human resources has become one of the most important, complicated and risky aspects of business.  Your employees can be the greatest asset your business can have.  they also can be your biggest challenge.  This series will help you undrestand understand the requirements of the law regarding key human resurce issues. You also will learn to create a positive and fair work climate. Hiring and firing, employee policies and handbooks and other hot topics such as harassment, privacy, family leave, and disability requirements are issues that most businesses have to deal with at some time.  Click here for more info. 

This is the executive forum that will provide proven techniques to help you manage your job better, enhance your professional skills, and prepare you to step up to greater leadership roles in our organization.  When you return to work, you'll have a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts.  You'll be able to confidently interpret financial data and answer relevant questions about your department and operations.  Beyond that, you'll have the business acument to know the advantages and disadvantages of different types of financial data and analysis tools, so you'll know the right kinds of qustions to ask to accomplish your department's and company's goals.  Click here for moe info.  Course # 1556

Successfully developing a market requires informed pricing, payment and placement of your product. All three of these steps will be covered at the export education seminar: The Three P's of Export: Pricing, Payment, and Placement.

Join Food Export Midwest and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection as they present a step-by-step analysis of the export transaction in detail.

Click here for more information.

This is the executive forum that will provide proven techniques to help you manage you job better, enhance your professioan skills, and prepare you to step up to greter leadership roles in your organization.  When you return to work, you'll have a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts.  You'll be able to confidently interpret financial data and answer relevant questions about your department and operations.  Beyond that, you'll have the business acument to know theadvantages and disadvantahes of different types of financial data and analysis tools, so you'll know the right kinds of questions to ask to accomplish your department's and company's goals.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1552

According to a report in the New York Times, between 48-50% of an employee's time is spent in conflict situations.  further, organizations that have a process for resolving conflict in the workplace are much more productive than those who do not.  In this course, we will investigate a range of methods for alleviating sources of conflict and successfully addressing the underlying interests of all concerned.  We will also examine a process for facilitating and resolving conflict between two parties.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1183

This is an advanced course for managers who are transforming their organizations or business units to accomplish a preferred outcome.  We will observe and analyze what inspirational leaders say and do to get the best performance out of people.  You'll discover how to create and communicate a powerful vision that sets a clear direction and inspires confidence in others.  Plus you'll receive helpful peer and instructor feedback on your leadership style.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1153. 

This is the executive forum that will provide proven techniques to help you manage your job better, enhance your professional skills, and prepare you to step up to greater leadership roles in your organization.  When you return to work, you'll have a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts.  You'll be able to confidently interpret financial data and anser relevant questions about your department and operations.  Beyond that, you'll have the business acumen to know the advantages and disadvantages of different types of financial data and analysis tools, so you'll know the right kinds of questions to ask to accomplish your department's and company's goals.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1554

Many otherwise successful managers have difficulty bridging the gap between functional expertise and general management skills.  All too often the specialized skills that made them invaluable in their former role become far less useful in a general management role, whil the need for general business skills increases.  This skill is often referred to a "business acumen" which is described as an intuitive understanding of how companies make money and a realization as to how a compelling vision can be effectively translated into an understandable, actionable strategy.  This course will "jump start" your business acumen skills and help you move ahead in your career.  Click here for more info.  Course # 1194