Business Collaboration Training Program | Business Collaboration Skills

OUR COLLABORATIVE MISSION

This Business Collaboration Training Toolkit was created with a double Collaborative Mission:

1. Make it easier for entrepreneurs to understand the benefits and risks of entering into collaborative business relationships, whether informal or formal, short-term or long-term. The checklist format makes it easy to identify over 200 potential action items or tasks that may need to be considered before taking any final collaboration-related decision that may impact their company’s future growth.

2. Make it easier for business consultants, coaches, mentors, and public/private business development organizations to help promote the use of business collaboration agreements as a socio-economic growth tool in their communities. This includes assisting local entrepreneurs in the preparation of their company business collaboration manual or provide other needed relationship-building services.

WHY & HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT!

Your new training resources will enable you, your clients, and your staff to rapidly learn,

How-To:

1. Properly assess your Business Capabilities, Goals, and Needs for Accelerated Growth.

2. Determine the most appropriate Type of Business Relationship aligned with your growth needs.

3. Utilize Best Practices for finding and selecting the ideal collaborator(s) to help close your Needs Gap.

4. Provide your ideal collaborator(s) with a persuasive “Win-Win” Proposal.

5. Prepare the Basic Components of an Effective Collaboration Agreement.

6. Prepare a Strategic Business Collaboration Management Manual for your business.

Victor M. Rivera

Author’s Credentials: Business Collaboration-Related Experience

Victor M. Rivera, the creator of the Business Collaboration Skills Training Program, has vast experience, many accomplishments, and recognitions for successfully managing economic and business development-related programs at the local, regional, national, and international levels.

Victor was introduced to the concept of collaborative business relationships as a teenager when he worked in his father’s grocery store in Brooklyn, NY. He witnessed firsthand how his father created alliances and cooperated with other businesses to reduce costs, increase security, and share information and experiences on how to better comply with city, state, and federal bureaucratic requirements.

After graduating from New York University with graduate studies in economics, he directed the Office of Economic Research in New York of the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration, Continental Operations; and then served four years as a Deputy Finance Administrator and City Register, in the New York City Finance Administration.

Later, at the U.S. Small Business Administration, he served as New York District Director and received the District Office of the Year Award. He was also the SBA Regional Administrator in Denver, for the six-state Rocky Mountain Region (awarded the Regional Advocacy Award of the Year) and served four years as Senior Advocate at the Office of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy.

Victor also served as National Director at the Minority Business Development Agency/U.S. Department of Commerce.

At the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), he headed the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau and its 11 mission offices (position required U.S. Senate confirmation), where he administered a $1.5 billion budget.

Victor was a past recipient of the distinguished Arthur S. Flemming Award as “One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women in the Federal Service.” The award mentioned his “demonstrated exceptional administrative talent, creativity, and willingness to innovate and the ability to motivate diverse groups of people to work together.”

The World Bank contracted him to prepare a study, “The World Bank and the Enterprise Development Process.” His report noted that one of the critical tools of the enterprise development process was “public-private sector collaboration.”

His collaboration related experience includes serving as the Co-Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation (NSF), Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Grant awarded to the University of Puerto Rico.

Victor has posted numerous articles on business collaboration and has previously published an e-book on Kindle, Strategic Collaboration Workbook.