Growth Series

Growing your Business training

ISANS business training workshops and seminars help newcomers start and grow a successful business.

Our training sessions are usually 2 hours long, and can be on any of the following topics:

 

Financial and Risk Management for Businesses

In this session, you will learn:

  • Cash flow planning
  • Health insurance and health care spending accounts
  • Investing as a business owner
  • Corporate and personal life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Critical illness insurance

 

Professional Selling Skills

In this session, you will learn:

  • Understand why and how a customer decides to buy
  • Follow a structured sales process for enhanced business results
  • Learn effective, objective handling and closing techniques
  • Recognize the difference between transactional and relational selling
  • Communicate better to gain, build, and manage relationships with customers

 

Social Media Strategy for Small Businesses

In this session, you will learn:
What drives major platforms

  • The four pillars of a social media strategy
  • How you can turn strategy into action
  • How to audit social media and analyze your competitor’s strategy
  • Tips to get going and connect through social media

 

Accounting for Business

In this session, you will learn:

  • The basic accounting requirement for self-employed businesses and corporations
  • The business owner's basic obligations on accounting reporting
  • How to report your business income tax
  • GST/HST reporting
  • Payroll reporting

 

The Employer Value Proposition: Building a Culture of Retention

In this session, you will learn:

  • The common, mistaken beliefs about EVP
  • The challenges of not keeping the promises of EVP
  • What you need to ask your employees, and what you need to know about them, to offer a relevant and compelling EVP, and to keep your employees engaged and motivated
  • Branding opportunities that come naturally from EVP

 

Growth series:

Every series consists of a minimum of five sessions, which can take place in person or online and last for two hours.

  • Digital Marketing Strategies for Businesses
  • Business Taxation and Accounting Series

 

To join this program, you must:

  • Be a recent citizen, permanent resident or approved to immigrate
  • Be a registered ISANS Business client
  • Have a minimum Canadian Language Benchmark of 5 (CLB 5)

 

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