Ages 18-26
ADB Business Learning Group
Intensive Applied Learning Lab
ADB Business Learning Group, a DBA of Successful Living Economic and Community Development Corporation, is sponsored by an IRS-recognized non-profit. This sponsorship allows us to offer this Tier, which provides practical business experience in operating an actual business enterprise.
Group participants will work in a business, applying practical skills to start, maintain, and grow operations. The designed curriculum is not just multidisciplinary but also collaborative and innovative, pushing the boundaries of traditional business education. Students will be active participants in service inception, delivery, and operations. The class completion will be a business pitch for a company to accept the business group’s recommendation for services for a cash award to participants.
The learning lab will be structured in three (3) distinct phases, each focusing on a different aspect of business education. This unique structure ensures a comprehensive learning experience.
Tier 3 – Phases
Phase I – ABCs of Business Creation: This trifactor series of classes deals with essential components of business formation, including: What Are You Promising? (Business Marketing, Ethics, Business Structuring); Financial Literacy for Entrepreneurs (Learning essential financial numbers and the Personal Financial Statement); Create, Innovate, or Dominate (Positioning your company to be preeminent in the industry)
Phase II – Business Branding for Beginners: This trifactor series of classes deals with essential components of business branding, including The Color of Business (Understanding the psychological approach to color in presenting your business), The Language of Business (Understanding Behavioral Economics, Effective Descriptive Words and Phrases, and Effective Communication Skills), The Leadership of Business (Emotional Intelligence, Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking, How to Market & Advertise a Business Effectively)
Phase III – Business Strategy for Beginners: This trifactor series of classes deals with essential components of business strategy, including Turning Listening to Dollars (Dollarization/Monetizing Business Ideas, Networking and Pitching for Beginners, Cooperations/Collaborations/Coalitions and other Strategic Partnership Creations), One-on-One Salesmanship: How to Get Sales (Storybooking: Content Creation/Marketing), Business from Idea to Execution (1-Page Business Plan, 1-Page Marketing Plan, 1-Page Business Optimization Plan)