FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR WOMEN: Your Needs Are Different WSMCE 8051 C01
2/8 - 2/22 6 - 8pm
Join Bill to learn how women are different when it comes to financial planning? For you, building financial confidence is about building knowledge and balancing life’s priorities. In this course, you will be educated on specific aspects of your financial life so that you can best understand your own needs, priorities, and challenges, and best prepare by organizing, setting goals and ultimately making informed decisions that can impact the rest of your life. William F. Davis, CFP®
Business Development
SO YOU WANT TO START YOU OWN BUSINESS WSMCE 8042 C01
2/5 - 3/12 8:30 - 10:30am
Ready to take your great idea, product or service and turn it into a business? You will explore what is involved in creating, starting up and running a small business. We will determine if you have the passion to be an entrepreneur, the steps required to start your business and options for financing your business venture. You will learn how to evaluate your idea, understand your customer, and define exactly what and why people will buy from you. You will learn how to structure and organize your business, business financials, and marketing. Fred Fisher
Design Thinking Fundamentals WSMCE 9045 C01
1/25 - 3/3 6 - 9pm
Design Thinking is problem solving made practical – and repeatable. More than a technique or process, Design Thinking is a mindset and a methodology for finding and creatively solving problems - for your business, your customers, and even yourself. Design Thinking can help you, and your business, confidently move from ‘crazy’ ideas to successful products with passionate and loyal customers.
The Design Thinking mindset is for anyone trying to build new products or services.
For entrepreneurs and innovation leaders:
- Build empathy for the people who will use your products or services
- Identify real customer challenges and product opportunities
- Confidently develop creative solutions that delight users AND deliver significant business value
For business leaders across the organization:
- Build empathy and understanding of the people who use your products
- Understand your customers’ greatest challenges and identify business opportunities
- Improve collaboration and build alignment
- Improve existing products, or imagine completely new ones, to solve customer problems and drive business growth
In this Design Thinking Fundamentals course, participants will engage in a combination of lecture and hands-on practice in the 5 phases of the Design Thinking process: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
Steve Pashley Design Thinking is a mindset and methodology that has helped designers build industry-leading digital and physical products, solve global challenges and generate ground-breaking innovations. Design Thinking has been adopted by Apple, AirBnB, Google, IBM, Samsung and others to help drive rapid, scalable product innovation.