/Events

Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.

Topic: Small Business Development Overview / Business Financials

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):  Sonya Miller-Ray  / Jules Monroe

Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.

Topic: Where Do I Start? Website Planning 101

A website is a necessity for entrepreneurs. Learn terminology and the type of website that best fit your business and industry. Participants will walk way with the tools needed to choose a domain name and how to deploy their website successfully.

Speaker(s):  Linda Hughes

Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.

Topic: Small Business Development Overview /Women in Finance

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. Entrepreneurs will gain information on the types of business entities recognized in NC, legal matters that can come up when running your business, and provide guidance on what to expect with the unexpected.

Speaker(s):  Sonya Miller-Ray  / Raeneice Taltoan  

Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.

Topic:  Hiring Essentials

Using your intuition in certain situations might be effective, however in interviewing, selection of a candidate based on intuition can be disastrous and costly.

To increase your odds of hiring the right candidate, you must prepare, utilize a system for interviewing and employ a process for selections and follow-up. Interviewing potential new employees and those who may be promoted is one of the most important tasks a leader or business owner will handle. Yet too many leaders are not prepared for the critical interaction that will determine who fills critical roles within their organizations.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the essential skills, knowledge and abilities needed for vacant roles

• Create behavior-based questions to ensure the interviewer obtains the necessary information to make an informed hiring decision

• Characterize common biases that often disrupt the hiring process

• Develop a process for interviewing, selection and follow-up

• Identify legal considerations in hiring

Speaker(s):  Nikki Pounds   /  CharlotteWorks (Andrew Davila)