Positive Power Plays: Skills for Conflict & Negotiation
July 30, 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...
Maximizing Your Leadership Potential
August 6, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
Maximizing Your Leadership Potential is a program designed to help you with practical to achieve lasting, sustainable results through people. This course will enable you to sharpen your skills in four fundamental areas of leadership: self-awareness, learning agility, communication, and influence....
Communication & Delegation Skills
August 13, 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 ...
FORWARD FEST: From Side Hustle to Small Business
August 18, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Start-up Assistance
Overview
Have you been thinking about turning your hobby into a business, but aren't sure where to start? Do you have a side hustle that's grown and you want to explore next steps? Are you interested in learning more about how to explore a business idea you have? This session will teach ...
FORWARD FEST Leveraging the Library: Valuable Resources for Market Research
August 19, 2025 | 12:30PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Start-up Assistance
Put this session on your Holds List, and "check out" some great resources from your local libraries
When taking your business from idea to reality, you'll likely have a lot of questions that need answered in order to get your business off to a strong start. For example: What do you need to...
FORWARD FEST: Demystifying the Pro Forma: Building Financial Projections
August 20, 2025 | 1:30PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Business Accounting and Budget
Session Description
In 40+ years of working with entrepreneurs, we have regularly observed that "the money part" of business planning is often what causes many business owners and would-be business owners alike the most anxiety and confusion. Yet the numbers don't have to intimidate you. I...
FORWARD FEST Is it the Real World? Or is it AI? An Entrepreneur's Introduction to Artificial Intelli
August 21, 2025 | 9:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Managing a Business
You've heard plenty about Artificial Intelligence being a "game changer" across industries - but what does that mean for your day-to-day work? We asked ourselves this question - and how AI could level the playing field for small businesses - and did some investigating.
We know that as a sm...
FORWARD FEST Mastering Strategic Pricing for Cash Flow Management
August 22, 2025 | 10:30AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Business Basics
This session provides practical strategies for determining the right pricing for your product or service to optimize profitability and sustain business growth. Participants will explore how to evaluate competitors, brand value, and customer segmentation to create pricing strategies that align wit...
FORWARD FEST: Business Taxes 101: Navigating Self-Employment and Small Business Taxes for Beginners
August 22, 2025 | 1:00PM | 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
September 17, 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 ...
Human Resources (HR) Basics for Non-HR Professionals (ONLINE)
September 25, 2025 | 8:30AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Managing Employees
THIS CLASS IS ONLINE
For most small business owners and managers, there is a wide gap between hiring your first employee(s) and bringing on an HR manager or team of HR professionals. Yet in the meantime, there are a lot of legal details and best practices to know to best p...
Human Resources (HR) Basics for Non-HR Professionals
September 25, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
For most small business owners and managers, there is a wide gap between hiring your first employee(s) and bringing on an HR manager or team of HR professionals. Yet in the meantime, there are a lot of legal details and best practices to know to best position your business for success. This cours...
Entrepreneurial Training Program (ETP)
October 2, 2025 | 5:30PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Start-up Assistance
ETP is an intensive business-planning training program designed to help participants who want to start a new business, grow an existing business, or make a substantial business pivot that requires viewing the business with a new perspective.
The focus of the program is to help you complete...
Launch Into Leadership
October 8, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
Wisconsin Tax Seminar for New Businesses
October 14, 2025 | 9:30AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Tax Planning
In this New Business Seminar, hosted by The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) you will gain a basic understanding of Wisconsin's tax laws.
Topics may include:
- Business tax registration
- Withholding tax information
- Sales and use tax information
- Oth...
Intermediate Financial Management
October 21, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Business Accounting and Budget
If you as an entrepreneur or business manager are looking for the answers and solutions to these sorts of questions and challenges, then this class is for you:
(1) How to read and understand financial information
(2) How to analyze financial information to improve business management d...
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
October 29, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
Research by the Carnegie Institute concluded: "15% of success is technical skills - 85% is people skills." Emotional Intelligence is all about people skills - how well you know yourself and your emotions and how well you read and interact with others and their emotions. Learn about how the brain,...
Introduction to Financial Management
November 3, 2025 | 4:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Business Accounting and Budget
Whether you are starting a new business or looking to organize your current business' finances, accurate financial information is one of the most valuable tools you have to drive success. This course seeks to set participants on the right path by providing a "101" overview of financial bookkeepin...
Maximizing Your Leadership Potential
November 4, 2025 | 8:30AM | Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison, Grainger Hall, MadisonTopic: Managing Employees
Taking on new supervisory responsibilities is a great opportunity and challenge. Many in supervisory roles have learned either by trial and error or by following what was done by their predecessor. In most cases, this is not a very effective strategy. This course will start you in the right direc...
2026 HR Trends
November 6, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Wisconsin SBDC at UW - Madison
Topic: Managing Employees
Through their annual HR Trends Survey, QTI aims to provide businesses with critical HR insights by providing guidance on topics such as compensation, benefits, careers, employee well-being, diversity and inclusion, and workforce planning. For over a decade, the results of their HR Trends survey h...
Communication & Delegation Skills
November 10, 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 ...
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...
Fearless Performance Management
November 19, 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 1, 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,...
Financial Foundations for Food Brands
July 14, 2025 | 9:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Business Accounting and Budget
About Financial Foundations for Food Brands
Define, align, and strengthen the key elements of your business's financial foundations at Financial Foundations for Food Brands
This fundamental training helps food-focused entrepreneurs establish a solid financial founda...
Financial Foundations for Farms
July 15, 2025 | 4:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Topic: Business Accounting and Budget
Establish a solid financial foundation for your farm or value-added agriculture business at FFI's fundamental training, Financial Foundations for Farms.
In this training, expert-led instruction, tools, and coaching combine to help you develop your marketing and financial management skills,...
SBIR 101 Webinar
July 24, 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...
NIH Presubmission Panel Review
August 12, 2025 | 12:00PM | OnlineFacilitated by: Center For Technology Commercialization
Topic: Start-up Assistance
Do you plan to submit to NIH in April? Please register with CTC to participate in our free Presubmission Panel Review. CTC, in collaboration with a panel of expert reviewers, will simulate the NIH review process to help you improve your SBIR/STTR proposal ahead of the September deadline. This reg...
SBIR 101 Webinar
August 19, 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...
Food Business Consultant Training
August 20, 2025 | 10:00AM | OnlineFacilitated by: Food Finance Institute
Join Food Finance Institute Innovative Finance Expert and FFI founder, Tera Johnson, for our Level 1 and Level 2 Consultant Training.
Take your food and farm business clients to the next level by attending FFI's Level 1 and Level 2 Consultant Training. Offered in two 2-day sets, this ...
SBIR 101 Webinar
September 16, 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...