Collaborative public-private sector efforts will help share Free Business Collaboration-related Training Tools to help growth-minded entrepreneurs and their local economies.
Business Collaboration Skills has announced today that it is spearheading a collaborative, public and private sector effort, via a new viral referral campaign, to help local entrepreneurs more easily and at no-cost, develop their business collaboration skills. This, in turn, will also spur faster economic recovery for their community during these difficult times.
The campaign goal is to rapidly connect with, and assist, at least 10,000 entrepreneurs (worldwide) to access, free of charge, valuable skills-building information, including a How-To Collaborate Workbook with a more than 200 tasks Checklist, a 64-Slide Collaboration Training Guide, and a Model Company Business Collaboration Manual. These tools can be securely downloaded at: www.businesscollaborationskills.com
It is expected that this collaborative viral campaign effort will serve as a model for other public-private sector initiatives to help develop the mindset and business skills of future generations of entrepreneurs to be better prepared to succeed in the rapidly growing global B2B sharing/ collaborative economies.
Entities being invited to participate and contribute to the success of this very much needed business assistance effort, utilizing wide-spread referral techniques, will include: Business Consultants/ Coaches, Business Development Organizations (government and private sector), Chambers of Commerce, Business Associations, Corporations with Intrapreneurship Programs, Universities, and Libraries serving entrepreneurs and students.
Their roles will include, when applicable, to utilize the website content to train their employees and/or clients on the basic process on how to build win-win collaborative relationships. Also, via their social media programs, inform their audiences that they are collaborating with Business Collaboration Skills in spreading the word that free, very helpful collaboration-related training materials are easily accessible at www.businesscollaborationskills.com and that they can provide them follow-up help.
Contact information for participating entities will be included in the Business Collaboration Support Directory that will be included on the website. This will enable entrepreneurs in their area to easily connect with them for any needed assistance.
Victor M. Rivera, Founder of Business Collaboration Skills and Coordinator of the “Promote Business Collaboration” campaign, has a long and distinguished career in entrepreneurship development at the State, Regional, National, and International level.
At the U.S. Small Business Administration, he served as the New York District Director and the SBA Regional Administrator for the six-state Rocky Mountain Region, based in Denver, Colorado; and at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, he was the National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency.
In the international arena, Mr. Rivera was in charge of the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) where he was responsible for administering the $1.5 billion U.S. economic assistance program for Latin America and the Caribbean. This position required U.S. Senate confirmation.
He has served as an economic development-related consultant to investment banking firms, federal and local government agencies, universities, and the World Bank (prepared study on the “World Bank and the Enterprise Development Process”).
Most recently, he has focused his efforts on helping small and medium size firms expand their operations by building win-win collaborative business relationships.
Mr. Rivera is a member of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals .
Collaborators in this initiative will be kept informed of the progress made, success stories, and lessons learned, to help them improve the effectiveness of their business collaboration-related support services.
More details on the project scope and benefits of this initiative are available at: www.businesscollaborationskills.com
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Victor M. Rivera,
Founder of Business Collaboration Skills
