Seminars & Training

CCB is offering open training and customised training services for individuals and companies. Trainingis provided by experienced CCB staff and partners who have extended knowledge and practical experienced in the trained subject. All training sessions have practical orientations and include practical skills development such as workshops, role-play, individual consultations etc.

Areas of trainings:

- Investment

- Sales

- Innovation

Schedule of trainings:

Time	10^th of October in Vilnius 11^th of October in Riga
Training	7 ways to double the value of your business: understand how businesses are valued, drivers and barriers, your business personality, innovation, motivation, value enhancers, the deal structure, creating a market for your business.
Duration	8 hours
Lecturer	Adrian Smith runs a company providing a range of business advisory services and management training. His background is in Strategic consulting and corporate finance advice in the technology sector where the company he worked for used to advice 30-35 owner managed businesses a year in how to make their businesses more valuable and sell them. He was then lured into an internet startup just as the dot bomb boom crashed! After two roles in the corporate sector as a Marketing manager and Finance Manager in the travel sector and in a business process consulting. Adrian was again drawn to starting up again in 2005. Adrian is passionate about helping entrepreneurs through the rollercoaster ride of start-ups, having been there twice before he knows the challenges and pleasures at first hand. He also loves working with entrepreneurs to make their businesses more valuable. Adrian works with a variety of training companies to deliver a range of management courses to a variety of clients in the Middle East, the Baltics (Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia) and West Africa. He is an associate of CC Baltic, a mentor with the Rockstar group and with Worcester university helping students set up their own businesses. He is also a licensed practioner of Motivation maps, a methodology used to dramatically improve organisational performance and runs training days, workshops, bootcamps and one to one advisory, mentoring and sell mandates services for start-ups and owner managed businesses. He has a business studies degree from Bournemouth University and an MBA from Canterbury Business School and the Reims Management School.

Time	TBC
Training	Attracting investment Investment for business, equity funding, finance around equity funding, how to present to investors, practice pitch exercise, individual meetings.
Duration	1 day
Lecturer	Charles Cormack – Managing director of Cormack Consultancy Baltic, having considerable experience of working in the UK financial sector, having worked on projects with a range of financial institutions (including Citi Bank, Barclaycard, Relax Finance, Cerberus, Morgan Stanley and Spectrum Card Services and other), business angels, venture capital funds, pre-seed / seed funds, Charles works both in tge UK and in the Baltics. He delivers programmes on culture dynamics between the two regions and seminars on doing business in the Baltics. Since CCB's conception the company has helped well over 200 companies to develop their business in the UK.

Time	TBC
Training	Export development Preparation for export, successful ways of market access, how to set target group, main mistakes and how to avoid them, export development plan
Duration	1 day
Lecturer	Barbara McCrory Works both in the UK and in the Baltics. She has over 20 years experience working in various businesses at Director Level. She started her trade with Tesco working her way up to Trading Director with a final responsibility for over £400 million sales and over 35 procurement, promotions and category management staff. Barbara has worked with and trained some of the top food brand names such as Mars, Unilever, Dolmio, Heineken, Hellmans, Flora, Nivea, Walkers, Johnson & Johnson, and Masterfoods. She writes bespoke training for companies and developed and trained the above companies in “Inside the mind of the buyer”, business strategies and planning. She currently takes part in export seminars and works with companies in the Baltic’s helping them to become prepared for exporting into the UK and Irish marketplace. She has a Marketing degree an MBA with Stirling University and is currently undertaking a doctorate with Napier University focusing on customer service and business profitability. She is a mentor with Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce.

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