Growing Your Small Business Just Got Easier Thanks to “Just Add One” Initiative

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WCC's state-of-the-art Gateway CenterJust Add One – The Westchester-Putnam Workforce Investment Board has created the Just Add One initiative (in partnership with Business Council of Westchester (BCW) and WCC’s Gateway to Entrepreneurship) to assist eligible small business owners to develop strategies to strengthen their business models and operations and make them more efficient and hire new employees. The overall goal is to assist participating businesses with growing their business and contributing to the economic growth in the region.

 

To be eligible to participate businesses must have a growth goal that will enable them to hire at least one employee. The program runsTuesdays and Thursdays, from Jan. 21, 2016 to March 14, 2016.

The Just Add One program includes workshops held at WCC’s State-of-the-Art Gateway Center covering the following topics:

  • Goal Achievement & Accountability
  • Leadership
  • Branding, Marketing/Public Relations
  • Customer Services & Customer Loyalty
  • Websites and Social Media
  • Accounting
  • Being the CFO of Your Business
  • Access to Capital
  • Sales
  • Legal
  • Human Resources/Risk & Insurance

In addition to weekly class sessions, entrepreneurs will participate in one-on-one coaching sessions to review what they learned in the classroom and to create a strategy for how to apply it to their business. These sessions can take place in person or by telephone. Participants will also be able to attend group sessions to identify business challenges and find solutions through Peer-to-Peer sharing.

“The Just Add One program is an invaluable resource to the growing small businesses of Westchester County. The unique combination of best practices learning workshops, one-on-one coaching and dynamic and engaging monthly peer-to-peer networking and mastermind sessions, gives the participants valuable access to other successful entrepreneurs and a broad team of trusted advisors and colleagues to help grow their businesses. It was masterfully run by caring and committed professionals and the rewards were enjoyed by all who participated on both the participant and the instructor-side,” stated Michael J. Wieser, Esq. of MJ Wieser Law, a Just Add One instructor.

For more information about the program call (914) 606-5685 or send an e-mail to romina.ganopolsky@sunywcc.edu  or visit www.sunywcc.edu/g2e for additional information.