Our Seminars
Don't have an MBA or Certificate in Business? Not to worry! As with all our products and services, our seminars are intended to get you up to speed fast on the basics of Leadership or Business and Financial Operations.
We offer a variety of seminars and workshops which provide the owners of businesses with the opportunity to take time off from their busy schedules to become students for a short period of time. Whether it is in the evening or during the day, we expect that our seminars will be of benefit. We will continue to offer new seminars and other educational forums as they are needed and developed.
The Seminar Leader: Paul L. Schechter, has 25+ years of consulting and teaching experience. He has been teaching classes throughout his professional career. Before he launched Community Harvest(sm) he taught courses for Ernst & Whiney (Young), the California Society of Certified Public Accountants as well as some private classes. Here are some of the seminars and workshops we offer:
I. Love@Work® Leadership for Business Owners:
- Business Process Management
- Business Process Monitoring
- Vision & Mission Statements
- Workplace Ethics & Values
- Value Stream or Chain Mapping
- Triple Bottom Line Reporting
- Succession Planning & Mapping
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Dispute Prevention in The Workplace-Businesses waste billions of dollars each year due to the wasted energy spent on disagreements which spiraled out of control and turned into business disputes and then legal disputes. This class was previously taught before the California Society of CPA's.
- Mediation Skills For Workplace Leaders-Did you know that mediation is a process? Did you know that mediation is not the same as arbitration? Do you want to learn mediation skills so that you are able to mediate disputes within your work community? Then sign up for our class. You will find that these skills not only help you to be a better leader at work, but that you will be a better leader at home as well. This class has previously been taught as a private class to Certified Public Accountants who wanted to also be mediators.
II. HealthErcizing(sm) for small businesses-we teach you the basics you need to know to produce a healthy company.
III. Visual Gardening(sm) for small design firms-this seminar will explain the connection between organizational design and sustainability for design firms.
IV. MaturMed(sm) for Physicians and Other Medical Practitioners-this seminar will explain the basics of providing our framework and processes for our mature set of medical services.
V. Financial Harvesting® For Small Business Owners
A. Financial Governance: The Good, The Bad & The Fuzzy-Financial Governance of work communities goes way beyond the boardroom. It extends into every aspect of the workplace. The "governance model" chosen by the owner to lead his work community will have major effects on his co-workers, his external community members (stakeholders) and his cash flow and profits.
B. Protecting Your Financial Assets-this seminar will provide you with an overview of the different phases of a SOX implementation. This includes such areas as project planning, choosing a risk/control framework, documentation, testing, etc.
VI. Other Seminars Taught:
A. Seminars FOR FOOD MARKET OWNERS
Leading a Community Market- We will show you how to grow your market by growing your community of consumers.
B. Knowledge Meals(sm) Seminar FOR FOOD PRODUCERS-our seminar will teach food producers about our framework and processes.
How Small Organic Farmers Can Grow Their Business Without A Farmers Market
