Business health check seminar offered for local managers

GOSHEN, Ind. – Keeping a business healthy, profitable and sustainable is no easy task, especially in this financial climate. Goshen College's Center for Business and Entrepreneurial Education (CBEE) is offering a six-part interactive seminar for senior managers to assess the health of their businesses. The weekly breakfast sessions will explore some of the key challenges in achieving and maintaining a healthy business.

The sessions will be held each Wednesday from Sept. 22 to Oct. 27, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., in the Goshen College Church-Chapel Room 300, 1700 South Main Street. Register early.

The objective of this seminar is to help participating businesses to assess the current state of health of their own organizations and to share ideas and best practices with each other on how to address the common challenges faced in critical areas. In each seminar session, representatives of several prominent local companies have agreed to share how they have addressed some of the particular challenges of that business area or activity.

Sessions include:

Sept. 22 – Vision and Direction
Sept. 29 – Business Structure
Oct. 6 – Resource Management: Employees
Oct. 13 – Resource Management: Customers and Vendors
Oct. 20 – Resource Management: Capital
Oct. 27 – Building in Flexibility

The six-part seminar costs $240 for one participant seat, or $180 per seat if registering for two or more seats. Fee includes continental breakfast.

For more information or to register for the classes call the Center for Business and Entrepreneurial Education at (574) 535-7150 or visit www.goshen.edu/business/registration.

Editors: For more information about this release or to arrange an interview, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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