The University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, Office of Minority Business Development is sponsoring a seminar on Understanding Critical Elements for a Successful Small Business. This session will cover a number of critical skill sets which include, but not limited to the following: leadership, management, vision, strategy analysis, business planning and marketing, understanding risk, financing and other skill sets. Additionally, this session is designed to help the new as well as the existing entrepreneur understand these concepts and how they affect the entrepreneurial enterprise.

This session costs $30 and will be held at the Athens SBDC, 1180 East Broad Street from 10 a.m. to noon. To register go to www.georgiasbdc.org/training/. For more information, call 706-542-6791 (e-mail: [email protected]). Deadline to register is Sept. 7 by noon.