As a business grows, the founders will be adding more people to the team and begin to organize those people to ensure that the company is successful.
As a business grows, the founders will be adding more people to the team and begin to organize those people to ensure that the company is successful. This course begins by explaining how to determine the right structure for the people who work in a business. This course also examines the various types of senior team members needed in growing companies. It also addresses the proper approach to hiring team members and various options for compensating the team. Finally, how to best use consultants and boards to supplement the leadership team is explained.
Field of Study: Personnel/HR
Entrepreneur / Professor / Author
Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also was founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, and led the Center for the first ten years of its operation. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics for a nine year “sabbatical” to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cornwall has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching, and in 2013 he was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has published ten books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship.
