Learn. | Implement. | Grow. | Accelerate. | Innovate. 

Built on the foundations of a traditional MBA curriculum, the Acorn Academy program helps you learn, better understand, and immediately apply these practical skills to immediately improve your business.

Learn the best practices of management, demystify the financials, and become an Acorn Academy Certified Master ManagerTM.

Designed for both existing and aspiring managers, this training will enhance your professional knowledge to help you thrive in your career.

$800
Free Pilot Program
FOR select Loading dock MEMBERs
January 26, 2022
Program kick-off
8-Weeks
Duration

Join the Winter Program Starting January 26, 2021 

Registration will remain open until January 30, 2022.

Save These Dates!

Save these key dates for the live sessions of the Acorn Academy Winter Program
All live sessions will be held at 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST in-person at The Loading Dock 1053 Classroom, and simultaneously hosted on a shared through the Zoom link below.

January
26th

Program Kickoff & Onboarding

February
9th

Your Vision, Goals & Planning Process

 February
23rd

The Right Team & Customers

March
9th

An Empowered System of Management

March
23rd

Financial Review + Graduation
These links will only work during scheduled facilitation times.

Acorn Academy by The Loading Dock is a simple and effective way to learn the essential knowledge of organizational leadership & business finance.

CEO:  We need to train our team.

CFO:  What if we train them and they leave?

CEO:  What if we don't and they stay..?

Affordable Alternative to AN MBA

20+ sections spanning the topics that every business owner, operator, manager, and employee needs to know as part of a successful organization.

This curriculum has been vetted in the real-world of business, helping hundreds of companies improve their operations and strengthen their bottom line.

The GoalMakers Guarantee

We believe in our material, so much that we offer a money-back guarantee.

Why choose GoalMakers?

Our team has spent decades building world-class training, learning, and resources to help businesses of any size succeed.

Now, we have combined all our material into an eLearning offering for businesses of any size to offer high-quality training to their entire teams 

Just say no to ineffective training.

No

travel costs, | missing work, | wasting time, |

Built for the busy professional, keeping in mind that you are working full-time the program is completely virtual.

Optimized for the modern learner.  It’s no secret that eLearning is the most efficient way to learn, providing an easy with anywhere, anytime accessible learning experience.
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Improve your management and grow your bottom line.

Management Training

Most managers never receive formal training. Arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to become a Master Manager.

Demystify the Financials

Every employee should understand the financials. This program will help you understand directly how to grow your profits.

The  Acorn Academy Master Manager Certification

  • A Stamp Of Approval

    By the end of this course you will have the skills,  knowledge, and resources you need to be more successful so let the world know it! 

    Upon completion of this program you will receive the Acorn Academy Master Manager Certification, this will also be a digital badge that allows you to post on LinkedIn and other resume sites. 

Meet Your Instructor

John Cioffi

John Cioffi, the Chief Content Officer at GoalMakers, has spent the last 30-years, coaching hundreds of clients to success. He previously ran a subsidiary of Amoco Oil subsidiary, a Fortune 100 company, and held executive positions at several other companies in a wide variety of industries. John received his MBA from The Wharton School and holds a Master’s in from Dartmouth.

Frequently Asked Questions

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8-Week Program Overview

🚀 Week 1:  Set Goals all the Time

We begin by crafting a vision for the company, our long-term goal 3-5-years from now. This will be the North Star for our entire team. Then we learn what makes a 'good goal' and create company-wide, department-level, & individual goals that align with our vision. 

🔎 Week 2: Focus On the Process Not A Plan

We’ll get a baseline of our company's current status by collecting valuable information. Using that as a baseline we will adopt a planning process so our company can adapt to today’s ever-changing conditions.

✒️ Week 3: Coach the Right People

We’ll clearly define positions at our business, and create position descriptions for ourselves and key roles within the organization. Then we identify the right natural abilities needed for these roles, and if we have our people in the best place for success currently.

🔗 Week 4: Serve the Right Customers 

We begin by identifying our right customers, then determine how we find more of these right customers, building a sales process to serve them, streamlining our operations processes around them, and finally fostering a culture & strategies necessary to serve the right customer.

📝 Week 5: Empower Your Entire Team

Learn how managers empower their team members by establishing clear goals and allowing people to achieve those goals in their own way, through our system of “wide boulevards, high curbs”. 
We determine if our team members meet the criteria required to work in an environment of empowerment.

💯 Week 6: Do the Right Things Right

We will use six tools to monitor and manage our company’s performance and build our own System of Managing—a clear and effective means of providing clarity and purpose to team members while steering everyone to accomplish their individual goals, as well as the company’s goals. 

💰 Week 7: Demystifying the Financials

Using a case study, we will understand how to read and use financial statements. With the case study as real-world context, we will also learn about projections, inventory, accounts receivable, and cash flow and how to use this information to build stronger businesses.

💱 Week 8: Using the Financials

With a new understanding of the basics, we will focus on specific elements that grow the bottom line. We start by calculating our own financial ratios, and how to set realistic goals for your business with them. From there we learn how to easily use break-even analysis to inform everyday decisions. 

Fundamentals of the Acorn Academy

Here are the key takeaways of each section in the program:

Set Goals All The Time

  • Set a company-wide vision.
  • Learn how to create good goals.

  • Create goals for the company, departments & each employee.

Focus On The Process
Not a Plan

  • Measure current company state.
  • Replace the business plan.
  • Create strategies for a constant planning process.

Coach The Right People

  • How to build the right team.
  • Learn to identify natural abilities.
  • Create position descriptions for yourself and every employee.
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Serve The Right Customer

  • Identify your good customers.
  • Define your generic strategy.
  • Create a sales process & refine your operations processes.

Empower Your Entire 
Team

  • Learn the life-cycle of a manager.
  • Build an empowerment culture.
  • Create an organization of 'Wide Boulevards, High Curbs'.

Do The Right Things Right

  • Learn the six tools to measure & manage goal achievement.
  • Create a system of management for your team.

Demystifying The Financials

  • Using a real-life case study we will:
  • Learn how to properly read the financial documents.
  • Further understand the benefits of accurate projections. 
  • Build out your own financial models of success.

Applying The Financials

  • Dive deep into how to calculate the important financial ratios and set realistic goals for each of these ratios.
  • Understand the cash flows (in and out) of your business.
  • Calculate your break-even to inform every decision. 

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Testimonials

"A training program for everyone in our company, from sweepers to CEO."

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"Profits in my business is more than tripled and the greatest benefits of all is everyone in the company comes to the table with the same share of acknowledge of fundamental business of principle."
Successful Clients
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Don't just take our word for it,
hear what our learners have to say.

"If I had to choose the one thing that made the difference between what made our company become a national leader in our industry or just a statistic, it would be Cioffi’s coaching on how to manage for success...For those striving to be the best of the best, personally and professionally, this is your bible.”

John Hennessy
CEO AND PRESIDENT, NUPRECON, INC (NOW NORTHSTAR)
"GoalMakers helped my company along our path to both survival and growth in a world that is changing faster than anyone can track. The authors have a way of grabbing our feet and pulling us back down to the real world, while still allowing us to excel as a creative firm."

Karl Bischoff
PRESIDENT PHINNEY BISCHOFF DESIGN HOUSE
"GoalMakers provides managers with proven, practical tools for developing and implementing operating plans that align with an organization’s strategic objectives and the strengths of its people to produce what we all want as business leaders: win-win solutions for every element of our businesses."

Robert G Nuber
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS, CLARK NUBER PS, CPA’S & CONSULTANTS

Learn how Tim Craik, the General Manager of GO Resilient, brought this training to his entire team.

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To inspire success and provide the training his team wanted (and needed) to achieve their goals, Tim brought in employees from departments across the company. This access to the GoalMakers training has helped GO Resilient grow their bottom line and provide the skills to aspiring managers within the company to achieve their goals.
Ryan McGregor
Regional Sales Manager
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Dong Dam
Logistics & Procurement Manager
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Greg Youldon
National Accounts Sales Lead
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Regional Sales Representative
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