Learn. | Implement. | Innovate. | Accelerate. | Grow.
SRBX and CIEF bring you our newest resource, providing a streamlined mini-MBA curriculum NEXT Business Academy.
Learn, understand, and apply the best practices of people management and business finances to immediately improve your firm.
Learn, understand, and apply the best practices of people management and business finances to immediately improve your firm.
NEXT Business Academy is a 10-week fully digital program for both current & aspiring leaders of the forestry industry to learn the fundamentals of people management & business finance to grow in their careers.
Blending self-paced learning with live virtual sessions to learn & discuss with your SRBX and CIEF peers.
virtual facilitations
Every 2 weeks, join live facilitated conversations with your cohort, guided by our guest experts.
Self-Paced eLearning
After the 10-weeks you will have access to the eLearning for a full year to continue your learning journey.
A 'mini-MBA' meant for any level of experience.
NEXT Business Academy is a hybrid learning experience designed to provide world-class business training, from emerging leaders to seasoned executives.
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.
Save These Dates!
August
31
31
Program Kickoff &
Onboarding
Onboarding
September
14
Set Goals All the Time
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Focus on the Process
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Focus on the Process
September
28
Build the Right Team
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Serve the Right Customers
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Serve the Right Customers
October
12
An Empowered System of Management
October
26
Demystifying the Financials
November
9
Applying the Financials
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Graduation
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Graduation
Affordable Alternative to AN MBA
20 training modules 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
NEXT Business Academy Certification
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By the end of this course you will have the knowledge, skills, and resources you need to be more successful so let the world know it!
Upon completion of this program you will receive the NEXT Business Academy this will also be a digital badge you can add to your LinkedIn. -
Just say no to ineffective training.
No travel costs | No missing work | No wasting time | No travel costs | No missing work | No wasting time
Optimized for the busy professional working full-time. This eLearning course is completely virtual, the most efficient way to learn, providing an easy with anywhere, anytime accessible learning experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
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🚀 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.
🔎 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.
✒️ 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.
🔗 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.
📝 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.
💯 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.
💰 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.
💱 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
NEXT Business 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
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.
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.
Testimonials
"A training program for everyone in our company, from sweepers to CEO."
"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."
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 Willig and 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