The Business and Financial Services Day is focused on helping future leaders cultivate their leadership skills by learning from successful business leaders in the community. The day’s program is designed to provide the students insight into a variety of businesses ranging from small entrepreneurs to large corporations, from services to manufacturing industries. Interactive sessions encourage learning about the diversity of opportunities and career paths in the business world, combined with an exposure to the drive, energy, and strong set of values that successful business leaders have in common. The day’s topics have typically included:
- Understanding etiquette and protocol in a formal business setting
- Establishing outstanding customer service and ethics as core values in a business
- Resume building workshop
- How to build a successful network
- Tips from hiring managers on what to prepare for when interviewing
- Getting started at personal finance and financial planning
- Visits to local businesses for a behind-the-scenes tour of their operations and critical factors that drive its success.
CLASS OF 2019
CLASS OF 2018
CLASS OF 2017
Collecting presents for United Way
CLASS OF 2016
Visit with Dave Ramsey
Collecting presents for CASA family at Christmas
CLASS OF 2015
Presents donation for CASA family
Building college resumes with Rick West, Dean of Lower School, FRA
Visit to the Entrepreneur Center
CLASS OF 2014
Visit to Mars Petcare
Manners and Protocol Lunch
Visit to Entrepreneur Center
CLASS OF 2013
Gifts for Family in Need: A Community Housing Partnership Project
Business Lunch on Manners and Etiquette
Presentation by Allie Miller at Reliant Bank
Class of 2012
Lunch at Embassy Suites with Manners and Protocol presentation
Preparing for discussion on finances at Reliant Bank
Presentation by David Mee, Belmont University, on resume preparation
CLASS OF 2011
Business at the Chamber
Class members with speaker, Dale Smith Thomas
CLASS OF 2010
CLASS OF 2008
