Workshops • Seminars • Forums

Regularly scheduled throughout the year, Chamber seminars are designed to help businesses enhance operations through informative educational sessions on a wide range of business-specific topics that have included:

• Building an Effective Sales Program • Keeping Your Best Employees • Business Etiquette
• Conflict Management • Cutting Costs and Overhead Through Technology • Effective Interviewing • Workers’ Comp
• Wellness and the Workplace • Recognizing Human Potential Through Motivation • Customer Service.

Through a Chamber partnership with the Weill Institute of Bakersfield College Small Business Development Center, Chamber members can attend a variety of business education courses at significant discounts. Additional opportunities through collaborations with a variety of educational partners also are made available.

A variety of community and legislative forums provide a wide range of topical information that have impacts for business.
Annual events include:
• State of the City Forum • Bakersfield: The Next Five Years Business Forecast Forum

Legislative forums have recently included:
• Workers’ Comp Reform • California’s State Budget
• Business and Economic Development Issues Affecting the San Joaquin Valley and California
• Congressional Updates by U.S. Congressman Jim Costa and former U.S. Congressman Bill Thomas

The more you know, the more you grow.