Small Business Management
Stop simply working in your business, and start working on your business!
Discover the 2026-2027 Small Business Management Program:
Monthly Wednesday Morning Workshops held September 30 through May 26, 2026 | Includes Business Advising Appointments Tailored to Your Schedule
The Small Business Management program (SBM) is a unique combination of classroom learning, one-on-one guidance from a professional business instructional adviser, and networking with one goal: making you and your business more successful.
Over a nine-month period, you will learn about relevant management topics and meet regularly with your business adviser to help you to identify and prioritize outcomes and develop a plan to achieve them. You will benefit from classroom sessions by learning from seasoned professionals and your successful small business peers. You will learn how to take the material from the classroom and apply it directly to your business.
Classes are once a month, between October and June. For the 2026-27 year, the program will be held the first Monday of every month, from 9 a.m. to Noon. The course will be held live at Columbia Gorge Community College’s The Dalles Campus in The Dalles. The monthly, 1-hour one-on-one advising sessions are flexible around your busy schedule, with early morning, or evening sessions available. We will meet with you at the Columbia Gorge Community College location nearest you, or via Zoom or phone.
HELPING BUILD OREGON’S BEST BUSINESSES
Are you committed to succeeding as a small business owner?
- Do you have great ideas to make your business more successful, but not time to implement them?
- Want to manage your time and financial resources to achieve a great return on investment?
- Want to learn how social media platforms, mobile marketing tools, traditional media and more can contribute to your successful marketing strategy?
- Want to spend more time working on your business rather than in your business?
This course will answer all of the above and MORE!
Tentative Schedule:
- Business Planning
- Principles of Tax Planning
- Bookkeeping and Cash Flow
- Marketing Management
- Operations Management
- Business Law
- Human Resources
- Transition Planning and Financial Management
Program Cost
The SBM costs $900. A limited number $700 scholarships will be available for attendees for this program!
Use coupon code ECWorks to obtain the $700 scholarship while the funding lasts.
For more scholarship details and information please reach out to
Gregory Price
gprice@cgcc.edu
541-506-6120
Fee: $ 900.00