Communication & Delegation Skills
November 11, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
Whether you are communicating with your employees, customers, or suppliers your ability to express yourself well and understand others is a major factor of your success. For this course, you will have the opportunity to take the DiSC Personal Profile and use the results to better understand your ...
Digital Marketing & Social Media Conference
November 13, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Marketing and Sales
In this all-day conference, you will learn how to engage your customers and prospects online through your website and social media and track your activities so that you know what is working and what needs to be adjusted. Join us to build your marketing toolkit and take a time-out to learn more!...
Positive Power Plays: Skills for Conflict & Negotiation
November 18, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
All leaders experience conflict in one form or another. In this class, you will learn how to turn conflict into collaborations and reach win-win resolutions. You will see conflict to clarify roles, relationships, and heighten creativity. Learning how to reach beyond the impasse and find solutions...
Building Your Site + Connecting with Content
November 18, 2025 | 1:30PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Marketing and Sales
WordPress provides software to self-host blogs and websites. This presentation will explain how to obtain a domain name, set up web hosting, set up email accounts, install WordPress and build a website. In addition, you will learn how to install plugins such as contact forms, e-commerce platforms...
Hire Badgers: Student Staffing Opportunities for Small Business
November 19, 2025 | 11:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Managing Employees
Did you know that the UW-Madison Work-Study Program, previously reserved for on-campus and non-profit organizations, has been expanded to small businesses - and, as of September 2023, even covers 50% of the wages earned? Or that many UW-Madison students pursue internship opportunities as a way to...
Business Taxes 101: Navigating Self-Employment and Small Business Taxes for Beginners
November 19, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Tax Planning
Stepping into the world of business ownership brings with it the critical responsibility of understanding and managing business taxes. Whether you're a fledgling entrepreneur, a freelancer transitioning to a formal business entity, or a small business owner, grasping the basics of business taxati...
SHRM Learning System Certification Course
November 19, 2025 | 6:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Managing Employees
You are the future. Invest in yourself with SHRM certification.
Are you looking for help to navigate the increased demands on HR professionals? Become the most qualified and valuable HR professional you can be with SHRM certification.
The SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP®) and ...
Fearless Performance Management
November 20, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
The performance management - or employee feedback - process can fill many managers and employees alike with a sense of dread. However, with the right skills and mindset, this process can become collaborative, two-way communication that reduces anxiety and sets everyone up for success.
This...
Leading in an Age of Permanent Whitewater
December 2, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
We live in an ever-changing world, and our work as leaders involves creating both a shared vision to help our employees move forward and an environment of reassurance and stability in times of turbulence. Whether change comes in response to a crisis or as part of an opportunity to grow or evolve,...
FinanceEDGE: Turn Financial Data into Smart Decisions
December 8, 2025 | 10:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Financing
Ready to Diagnose and Strengthen Your Business Financials? This hands-on course introduces the FinanceEDGE Tool-a structured, four-step framework designed to help small business owners analyze financial health, identify root causes of financial stress, and implement actionable solutions. Whether ...
SBIR 101 Webinar
November 18, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
$4.5 Billion dollars in product development is available, maybe to you! Learn more about how you might tap the largest seed fund in this brief overview (and how we can help for free).
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfe...
Finance Sources & Uses of Capital for Food & Farm Businesses
November 19, 2025 | 9:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Financing
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For growing food and farm enterprises, understanding and securing the right capital is the most critical factor for successful scale. This essential session, de...
Food and Farm Consultant Webinar Series: Financing Alternative Ownership Models
December 8, 2025 | 1:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
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The Food Finance Institute's quarterly webinar series aims to provide consultants and technical as...
Funding Your Farm's Future
December 10, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Business Accounting and Budget
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Instructor: FFI Farm Program Manager Andy Larson
- Choose your best financing options
- Improve your loan or grant application
- Negotiat...
Raising Equity for Food Businesses
January 8, 2026 | 10:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Financing
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Instructor: FFI Innovative Finance Expert Tera Johnson
Raising Equity is designed to help food and farm businesses successfully raise money, both debt and equity. Ins...