Unlike some professions, businesspeople tend to come to the job with wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, education, qualifications, and even vocabulary.  If unrecognized and unaddressed, this can negatively impact the productivity, compatibility and success of a team.  If recognized and capitalized upon, this diversity is a major asset.

Ascent’s Business Foundations is a series of seminars, tailored to your organization’s specific needs, that guides your team through an exploration of the concepts and tools vital to individual and team success. 

• The series commences with an inward exploration into how we as individuals can have the most significant and positive impact on our success and our team’s success.  Our attitudes and attributes are too often overlooked in our quest for enhanced performance.  We cover topics such as:

• Personal responsibility
• Accountability
• Reliability
• Embracing change and growth
• Commitment
• Integrity
• Respect
• Initiative
• Time management
• Money management
• Understanding cause and effect

• The second portion of the series shifts the focus to skills and abilities specific to our roles as businesspeople, such as:

• Decision-making
• Prioritization
• Organization
• Delegation
• Communications, its importance, options for communications, and tools for effective communications
• Motivation and monitoring
• The roles of leadership, management, and doing in everyone’s job
• Developing people
• Planning
• Translating long-term plans into daily tasks