Welcome to the Effective Management Association
We Help Small Businesses Thrive!
About the EMA
Welcome to the Effective Management Association, a non-profit membership organization aimed to service small businesses in achieving their goals. Our focus is to educate business executives, entrepreneurs, managers and employees at every level with the proven methods, insights and resources to grow your business consistently, year after year, despite anything. This is your opportunity to learn firsthand (and let your employees learn firsthand) from the best on how to become the best.
Every professional is welcome to our training programs, from owners to receptionists. After all, success isn’t determined by economics only. It takes a unified purpose at every single level and a strong, ambitious workforce to take your business to the next level. We welcome your employees and offer training specifically for them as well as for you.
Thousands of local and international business executives have applied our methods and business technology to their internal processes and yielded extraordinary growth and returns. Now you can too!
Mary McCrink
Executive Director
Our Activities
Whether you’re a CEO, a business owner or a one-man show (for now), you know that it takes guts, vision and determination to run a business – but it will take even more to make that business thrive and flourish.
That’s where the Effective Management Association comes in. When you join our thriving membership, you will receive training programs that will help you expand and soar your business, as well as networking opportunities and benefits you never had before. So we welcome you and will do everything we can to make you succeed. That's our promise!
EMA Network
Local Effective Management Associations organize meetings, seminars and workshops all over the country with business professionals, executives, employees and owners. Through EMA meetings, business executives and staff can network with each other, share ideas, join projects or swap stories, whatever the topic happens to be. This growing network of executives is becoming more and more influential in implementing changes and innovations in their communities. You can be part of this team right now. Just contact an EMA near you and get started!
EMA Training Center
Through online seminars, workshops and e-learning, business professionals keep abreast of the ever changing commercial climate and find solutions to stay prosperous, regardless of the economy. EMA member training includes educational videos and online training and coaching programs on all aspects of organization and management. Based on the Hubbard Management System, the EMA training programs produce proven results and have helped thousands of others by dramatically increasing production and profitability.
Why Training?
One of the biggest problems an executive can face is how to build an effective team of people who care for the company and share the same passion for its goals. From small businesses to large corporations, it all stands or falls with the people who make the company what it is. Motivated people are probably the most important asset of any company while, on the other hand, absenteeism, lack of motivation and revolving-door-employment are among the top 5 problems in our economy. The solution is TRAINING!
EMA Member Training
Free Business Analysis
This free online tool lets you do an in-depth analysis of your own business which will reveal how your company is doing, much like taking an X-Ray of your business to find the pain points. When done, an EMA expert will guide you through the results to show you how you can improve on those points. Now also in Spanish!
Online Training
Consisting of close to 100 training videos covering the basics of organization and management, executive skills and marketing, our E-Learning programs drive home fundamentals followed by simple exercises that are automatically graded to ensure they are understood and can be applied, is the first step.
Training Apprenticeships
Learning administrative and management principles is the first step in EMA training. Next comes the application, tailored to your specific industry and company needs. Delivered by EMA Trainers, these apprenticeship groove in the principles of the Hubbard Management System like no other program which, invariably, leads to greater success and prosperity for your company.
The Model of Admin Know-How - Course & Program
This extensive online course and implementation program puts in all the vital elements to make your business succeed, such as proper organization and work flow, personnel enhancement and team building, viability and production measurement, and much more. Delivered as an online course and program, EMA Trainers supervise and coach you through all the steps to gain the full benefits from what this program can bring your company and staff.
EMA Bootcamps
EMA Bootcamps are virtual training sessions spread over several days in segments of 2 hours and cover specific subjects such as sales, marketing, team building and more. Action-driven, hands-on and intensely entertaining, these bootcamps are incredibly popular and include one-on-one questions and answer segments to create a thorough understanding of how to deal with specific issues in a company.
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