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Business Growth
Business Growth requires more than great ideas—it demands strategic alignment, disciplined execution and the ability to adapt in a rapidly changing marketplace. Our customized training and coaching programs integrate change management, innovation, marketing strategy and market intelligence to help organizations achieve measurable, sustainable results. By combining proven frameworks with practical, hands-on tools, we empower leaders and teams to identify growth opportunities, strengthen market position, improve profitability and build the capabilities needed to compete and scale with confidence.
Business Growth Strategy training can help you drive real value to the bottom line— resulting in sustainable growth, profitability, and success. Developing a high-return strategy allows you to be proactive about the opportunities you take to achieve optimal results, and brings order to chaos through clear priorities and action items.
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Business Growth Strategy training focuses on pursuing high-return strategies to help you drive real value to the bottom line— resulting in sustainable growth, profitability and success.
Participants will:
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Duration:
7-8 Hours | 2 Days
Format:
Customized on-site, in-person instruction or Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)
Recommended For:
Business owners, executives and leadership teams responsible for setting direction, driving growth and allocating resources. It is also valuable for managers who support strategic planning, sales, marketing and operations execution.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
Technology-driven Market Intelligence (TDMI) will explore new markets for products and services based on advanced technology, understand your product’s potential and position it to gain the greatest market share, leveraging extensive market research and real-world insights from industry experts.
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Technology-driven Market Intelligence (TDMI) analyzes your product’s potential for positive return on investment before you launch, and identifies and engages potential commercial partners to maximize that investment. You’ll go forward with confidence, knowing that your product will meet demand and generate value in the marketplace.
TDMI Specialists will:
Market Discovery will:
- Divergent thinking based on consideration of the technology at a fundamental level to identify potential applications and markets
- Secondary and primary research to uncover additional applications and markets
- Using data, analytics and AI to identify B2B market trends and growth opportunities
- Gathering and analyzing customer, competitor and industry intelligence
- Segmenting B2B customers and forecasting demand
Duration:
Variable: 8-14 weeks
Format:
A combination of customized on-site and virtual service
Recommended For:
B2B executives, sales, marketing, and product leaders who need data-driven insight to identify opportunities, understand customers, and stay ahead of competitors. It is also valuable for engineers and managers responsible for product development, market research, forecasting and strategic planning.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
Marketing Launchpad is a customizable, retainer-based program designed to address your organization’s needs across three core areas: Marketing for Sales, Marketing for New Employees and Marketing for the Community. Each engagement delivers a tailored marketing strategy that integrates elements from one, two or all three programs—based on your specific goals, priorities and growth objectives.
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CHANGE Pathway is a powerful, practical methodology explicitly designed to equip your team to evaluate and respond to people-related factors that cause projects to fail.
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CHANGE Pathway ensures your team adapts, embraces, and sustains change for lasting success. Unlock the people-side of project success with a proven approach that minimizes resistance, builds engagement, and drives measurable results.
Most projects do not fail because of poor planning. Traditional project management overlooks the people side—and that’s the main reason improvement efforts fail. Resistance, disengagement, and change fatigue derail even the best initiatives. Organizational change depends on individuals’ ability and willingness to change. Without winning over hearts and minds, projects stall.
Participants will:
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Duration:
Training: 24 Hours | 3 Days
Optional Implementation Coaching: 16 Hours / 2 Days
Format:
Customized on-site training
Recommended For:
Leaders, managers, and professionals responsible for guiding organizational change, aligning strategy with execution, and enabling teams to adopt new ways of working. It is well-suited for project sponsors, change agents, HR and transformation leaders, and anyone involved in driving cultural, operational, or strategic change within their organization.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
Our suite of Innovation Training Programs are designed to transform creative thinking into a repeatable, systematic business process. From foundational introductory sessions to intensive, project-based coaching, these courses provide the frameworks and hands-on experience necessary to drive measurable growth and solve complex organizational challenges.
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Introduction to Innovation is a four-hour training designed for organizations that wish to understand the basics of innovation and seek a process for idea generation.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
4 Hours
Format:
Customized on-site, in-person instruction or Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
Class Pre-work:
Create a blue card before class
Recommended For:
Leaders, supervisors, and cross-functional teams who want a clear, practical way to generate, evaluate, and advance ideas. It helps organizations turn innovation from a random activity into a repeatable business process.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
The one-day Innovation Overview is designed for understanding a proven process for innovation, basic exercises, process instruction and guidance for the organization to follow through after the course.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
7-8 Hours | 1 Day
Format:
Customized on-site, in-person instruction or Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
Class Pre-work:
Create a blue card before class
Recommended For:
Leaders, supervisors, and cross-functional teams who want a clear, practical way to generate, evaluate, and advance ideas. It helps organizations turn innovation from a random activity into a repeatable business process.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
The two-day Innovation Workshop is designed for a small group of team members to work and train together and apply the skills learned from the Innovation system immediately on a ‘real-world’ company project.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
14-16 Hours | 2 Days
Format:
Customized on-site, in-person instruction or Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
Recommended For:
Leaders, supervisors, and cross-functional teams who want a clear, practical way to generate, evaluate and advance ideas. It helps organizations turn innovation from a random activity into a repeatable business process.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
The Innovation Implementation Coaching program is designed for organizations seeking guidance, oversight and coaching to follow the innovation process from idea initiation to innovation completion.
Participants will:
Duration:
Varies: 8-12 Weeks
Format:
Customized on-site, in-person instruction or Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
Recommended For:
Organizations that have identified strategic innovation initiatives and need structured guidance, accountability and expert coaching to move those ideas from concept through execution and successful implementation.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
Innovation is often seen as an imperative for success. However, few organizations have established a reliable process for innovation. This webinar will provide a quick overview of the factors and steps needed to establish a reliable innovation process.
Participants will learn:
Duration:
Less than 1 hour
Format:
Pre-recorded free workshop
Recommended For:
Owners, Directors, Managers, and Engineers who are interested in boosting Innovation within their organizations
Many organizations know they need to be more innovative. They know innovative companies excel in critical areas such as customer satisfaction, profitability and employee morale. However, we find that very few organizations have a repeatable process to create, advance and prioritize ideas.
This webinar will demonstrate a concise, but powerful way to capture ideas, advance the ones with the highest impact and quickly kill those that won’t work. This webinar will show you how to make innovation a systematic process versus a random act. You will learn tools, roles and methods to innovate.
Participants will:
Duration:
Less than 1 hour
Format:
Pre-recorded free workshop
Recommended For:
Businesses with too few sales or marketing department
The Strategic Alignment Program helps small and mid-sized manufacturers in North Carolina turn their long-term vision into focused, actionable priorities. Using a proven Hoshin Kanri approach, it aligns leadership, teams and daily operations to drive measurable results with minimal disruption.
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Using a proven Hoshin Kanri approach, the Strategic Alignment training aligns leadership, teams and daily operations to drive measurable results with minimal disruption.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
1-2 days per week for 6-8 weeks
Format:
Customized on-site training
Recommended For:
Small and mid-sized manufacturers in North Carolina, including owners, executives, plant managers, and leadership teams who need to align strategy with daily operations, improve performance, and drive sustainable growth across the organization.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
This Succession Planning and Talent Development training equips leaders with the tools to ensure continuity, reduce risk, and prepare the next generation of leadership.
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Succession Planning training will teach how to identify critical roles, develop high-potential talent and align succession planning with long-term business strategy.
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Customized on-site, in-person training
Recommended For:
Senior leaders and executives, HR professionals and talent managers, department heads and team leaders or anyone involved in organizational strategy and workforce development succession planning strategy.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
ISO 22301 Gap Analysis prepares organizations to assess their current business continuity capabilities against the ISO 22301 standard and identify the actions needed to achieve certification.
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ISO 22301 Gap Analysis is a guided assessment of current processes, policies and risk controls. Teams will identify gaps, prioritize improvements and understand exactly what is needed to meet ISO 22301 requirements. Participants leave with actionable insights, reduced uncertainty and a structured plan to protect operations, ensure continuity and move confidently toward certification. This training enables organizations to strengthen resilience, reduce operational risk and move confidently toward ISO 22301 certification.
Participants will:
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Duration:
Variable: 14-30 Days
Format:
A combination of customized on-site and virtual training and coaching
Recommended For:
Leaders and teams who wish to move confidently toward ISO 2230 certification.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
The Financial-Based Decision Making and Cost Estimating program equips manufacturers with the skills to make data-driven, cost-conscious decisions that maximize operational efficiency and profitability.
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Financial-Based Decision Making and Cost Estimating to apply cost estimation, financial analysis, and performance metrics to prioritize resources and select the most valuable production strategies.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
7-8 Hours | 1 Day
Format:
Customized on-site or Virtual instructor-lead training (VILT)
Recommended For:
Manufacturing leaders, plant managers, operations and production managers, financial professionals, and anyone responsible for budgeting, cost control, or strategic decision-making in production environments. It is especially valuable for those seeking to make data-driven decisions that improve efficiency and profitability.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
Practical Project Management equips individuals—especially those new to project leadership—with the essential tools and techniques to manage projects effectively.
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The Practical Project Management training teaches how to plan, execute and close projects on time and within budget while leading high-performing teams. This hands-on training is ideal for “accidental” project managers or anyone seeking a strong foundation in project management fundamentals.
Participants will:
Topics covered:
Duration:
7-8 Hours | 1 Day
Format:
Customized on-site or Virtual instructor-lead training (VILT)
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Recommended For:
Individuals seeking a foundational understanding of effective project management principles and practices.
Contact your Regional Manager to schedule.
*Available as open enrollment course
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