CORE Business Academy | A Business Education Organization
CORE Business Academy
A Business Education Organization by ASKCRAIGTEE

Practical business and technology education built around real life.

CORE Business Academy helps business owners, professionals, families, churches, schools, and communities learn the practical skills needed to communicate better, use technology wisely, build stronger systems, and grow with confidence.

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CORE Business Academy organizes practical education into focused academies so individuals, businesses, churches, schools, and community organizations can quickly find the learning path that fits their needs.

15 Classes

Digital Discernment Academy

Practical education for families, churches, schools, businesses, and communities navigating technology, safety, influence, truth, and healthy digital habits.

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7 Classes

Artificial Intelligence Academy

Plain-language AI education focused on useful applications, responsible use, practical workflows, and informed decision-making without the hype.

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5 Classes

Business Systems Academy

Training for owners and teams who want cleaner operations, stronger processes, better tools, and less chaos.

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8 Classes

Sales & Communication Academy

High-trust communication and sales training for business owners, professionals, leaders, and teams.

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5 Classes

Marketing Academy

Hands-on training for stronger visibility, better content, clearer messaging, and practical marketing execution.

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4 Classes

Technology Bus Community Series

Accessible community classes delivered through The Technology Bus and partner locations.

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Learn Online, Live, or in Your Community

CORE Business Academy is designed to grow into a flexible education platform. Start with a live class, attend a Technology Bus session, request group training, or move into self-paced academy access as the membership area expands.

Live Classes

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Academy Access

Access self-paced learning paths, course content, resources, replays, and track-based training through the CORE Business Academy online learning platform.

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Group Training

Businesses, churches, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations can bring CORE Business Academy training to their people.

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Explore the CORE Business Academy Catalog

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15 Classes

Digital Discernment Academy

Practical education for families, churches, schools, businesses, and communities navigating technology, safety, influence, truth, and healthy digital habits.

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Digital Discernment Program

Digital Discernment Program

CORE Business Academy Class
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A comprehensive program that helps participants understand how technology, social media, artificial intelligence, algorithms, scams, misinformation, and digital habits shape everyday life. Participants develop practical habits for evaluating information, setting healthy boundaries, protecting personal data, and using technology with greater wisdom, confidence, and purpose.

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Predator In Your Pocket

Predator In Your Pocket

CORE Business Academy Class
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A digital-safety and awareness class for parents, grandparents, educators, church leaders, and concerned adults. Participants learn how online predators use smartphones, social media, gaming, messaging, secrecy, grooming, and manipulation, which warning signs are often missed, and what practical steps can create safer digital habits and stronger family conversations.

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AI, Deepfakes & Digital Manipulation

AI, Deepfakes & Digital Manipulation

CORE Business Academy Class
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Explores synthetic images, cloned voices, manipulated video, automated content, and persuasive digital tactics that can distort trust and influence decisions. Participants learn practical verification habits, how to slow down before sharing, and how to evaluate what is real, credible, and safe.

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Digital Footprints & Online Reputation

Digital Footprints & Online Reputation

CORE Business Academy Class
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Shows how posts, searches, photos, comments, tags, reviews, and shared content create a lasting digital record. Participants learn how online activity affects personal reputation, school and employment opportunities, business credibility, and family safety, along with practical steps for reviewing and improving their digital footprint.

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Cyberbullying Awareness

Cyberbullying Awareness

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps adults and young people recognize harassment, exclusion, impersonation, rumor-spreading, humiliation, and intimidation online. The class covers warning signs, documentation, reporting, supportive conversations, platform tools, and ways to respond without escalating the situation.

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Screen Time & Healthy Technology Habits

Screen Time & Healthy Technology Habits

CORE Business Academy Class
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Examines how notifications, endless scrolling, gaming, streaming, and device routines affect sleep, focus, relationships, and emotional well-being. Participants develop realistic boundaries and household habits that support healthier and more intentional technology use.

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Protecting Your Family Online

Protecting Your Family Online

CORE Business Academy Class
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Provides a practical family-safety framework covering privacy settings, device access, passwords, location sharing, messaging, gaming, social media, scams, and age-appropriate conversations. The goal is to create a safer digital environment without relying only on fear or surveillance.

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Digital Privacy & Data Protection

Digital Privacy & Data Protection

CORE Business Academy Class
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Explains how personal data is collected, stored, shared, and used across websites, apps, devices, and online services. Participants learn how privacy settings, permissions, location tracking, public profiles, cookies, data brokers, shared devices, and account security affect exposure, along with practical ways to protect personal and organizational information.

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Passwords, Scams & Identity Theft

Passwords, Scams & Identity Theft

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches participants how to create stronger passwords, use multifactor authentication, recognize phishing and impersonation, protect financial and personal information, and respond quickly when an account or identity may have been compromised.

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Recognizing Misinformation

Recognizing Misinformation

CORE Business Academy Class
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Builds practical skills for evaluating headlines, images, videos, sources, claims, and emotionally charged content. Participants learn how misinformation spreads, why people share it, and how to verify information before reacting or passing it along.

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Online Safety for Seniors

Online Safety for Seniors

CORE Business Academy Class
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A calm, practical class focused on scams, fake support calls, suspicious messages, online purchases, passwords, privacy, social media, and safe device use. The class is designed to increase confidence without overwhelming participants with technical language.

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Digital Safety for Churches

Digital Safety for Churches

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps church leaders and congregations address online communication, privacy, scams, livestreaming, youth safety, digital reputation, social media, and responsible technology use. It provides a practical framework for protecting people while supporting ministry and connection.

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Digital Safety for Schools

Digital Safety for Schools

CORE Business Academy Class
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Equips educators, staff, and families to better understand student privacy, cyberbullying, online behavior, social platforms, AI-generated content, digital reputation, and communication risks. The class emphasizes practical prevention and shared responsibility.

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Raising Digital Citizens

Raising Digital Citizens

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps parents and educators teach children and teens how to make responsible choices online. Topics include respect, privacy, truthfulness, empathy, boundaries, permanence, reputation, and how to respond when something goes wrong.

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Social Media & Mental Health

CORE Business Academy Class
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Explores how comparison, feedback loops, validation, outrage, exposure, and constant connectivity can affect mood, confidence, identity, and relationships. Participants learn how to recognize unhealthy patterns and create healthier digital routines.

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7 Classes

Artificial Intelligence Academy

Plain-language AI education focused on useful applications, responsible use, practical workflows, and informed decision-making without the hype.

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Intro to AI for Small Business

Intro to AI for Small Business

CORE Business Academy Class
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A beginner-friendly introduction showing business owners and professionals how artificial intelligence can support planning, writing, marketing, research, customer communication, productivity, and decision-making. The class emphasizes realistic expectations, verification, and responsible use.

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AI Without the Hype

AI Without the Hype

CORE Business Academy Class
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Separates useful AI capability from exaggerated claims. Participants learn what current AI tools can and cannot do, where they add value, where they create risk, and how to decide whether a given use case belongs in their work.

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PEF

Prompt Engineering Fundamentals

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches how to give AI tools clearer instructions, useful context, constraints, examples, and desired output formats. Participants learn a repeatable framework for improving results and reducing wasted time.

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AFM

AI for Marketing

CORE Business Academy Class
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Demonstrates how AI can support campaign ideas, audience research, content planning, email drafts, social posts, offers, and repurposing. The class also covers originality, brand voice, verification, and responsible review.

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AFC

AI for Content Creation

CORE Business Academy Class
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Covers practical ways to use AI for ideas, outlines, scripts, captions, newsletters, presentations, and repurposing. Participants learn how to maintain originality, accuracy, and a consistent voice.

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AFE

AI for Educators

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps educators understand how AI affects lesson planning, student work, assessment, research, classroom policy, and digital literacy. The class includes practical uses, limitations, and ethical considerations.

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AI Ethics & Responsible Use

CORE Business Academy Class
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Examines bias, privacy, consent, transparency, accuracy, ownership, accountability, and the human impact of automated decisions. Participants learn a practical framework for making responsible choices.

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5 Classes

Business Systems Academy

Training for owners and teams who want cleaner operations, stronger processes, better tools, and less chaos.

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CRM Systems 101

CRM Systems 101

CORE Business Academy Class
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Explains what a customer relationship management system is, why it matters, and how it can help a business organize contacts, leads, follow-up, appointments, opportunities, and customer communication. The focus is practical structure rather than software jargon.

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Build the System Before the Business Breaks

Build the System Before the Business Breaks

CORE Business Academy Class
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A practical systems class for business owners and leaders who are feeling the strain of growth, inconsistency, repeated mistakes, or too much dependence on one person. Participants learn how to identify operational pressure points, document critical workflows, clarify ownership, reduce bottlenecks, and build scalable systems before the business reaches a breaking point.

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BPM

Business Process Mapping

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches participants how to visually map the steps, people, decisions, tools, and handoffs involved in recurring business work. The result is greater clarity, easier improvement, and fewer hidden bottlenecks.

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WA

Workflow Automation

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Shows how to identify repetitive tasks that can be automated, choose appropriate triggers and actions, and create reliable workflows without automating broken processes.

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SD

SOP Development

CORE Business Academy Class
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Guides participants through writing standard operating procedures that are clear, usable, maintainable, and tied to real business outcomes.

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8 Classes

Sales & Communication Academy

High-trust communication and sales training for business owners, professionals, leaders, and teams.

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The CORE Fundamentals of Sales

The CORE Fundamentals of Sales

CORE Business Academy Class
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A high-trust sales and communication class that teaches how to build credibility, ask better questions, uncover real needs, communicate value clearly, handle resistance naturally, and guide decisions without pressure tactics.

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OHW

Objection Handling Without Pressure

CORE Business Academy Class
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Shows how to respond to hesitation, uncertainty, timing, price, and competing priorities by staying curious, respectful, and focused on the real concern.

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FTC

Follow-Up That Converts

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches practical follow-up timing, messaging, value reinforcement, and next-step structure so opportunities do not disappear after a good conversation.

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CS

Consultative Selling

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps participants move from pitching to diagnosing by connecting recommendations to the buyer's actual situation, priorities, and desired outcomes.

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NFB

Networking for Business Growth

CORE Business Academy Class
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Provides a practical approach to meeting people, starting useful conversations, following up, and building relationships that lead to referrals and opportunities.

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CEF

Customer Experience Fundamentals

CORE Business Academy Class
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Examines every major customer touchpoint and shows how clarity, consistency, responsiveness, and follow-through shape retention and reputation.

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RM

Referral Marketing

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches how to earn, request, track, and nurture referrals through a repeatable relationship-based process.

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CSF

Communication Skills for Leaders

CORE Business Academy Class
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Builds practical skills in clarity, listening, feedback, expectations, difficult conversations, accountability, and team alignment.

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5 Classes

Marketing Academy

Hands-on training for stronger visibility, better content, clearer messaging, and practical marketing execution.

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Social Media 101

Social Media 101

CORE Business Academy Class
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Helps small-business owners and professionals understand what to post, how to identify the right audience, how to build trust, how to create a realistic content rhythm, and how to connect social activity to business goals.

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Canva for Beginners

Canva for Beginners

CORE Business Academy Class
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A hands-on introduction to the Canva workspace, templates, brand consistency, basic layout principles, and creating social posts, flyers, presentations, and everyday marketing materials.

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Mastering Canva

Mastering Canva

CORE Business Academy Class
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Builds beyond the basics with stronger visual hierarchy, reusable templates, brand kits, presentations, video content, marketing collateral, and efficient design workflows.

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GBP

Google Business Profile Optimization

CORE Business Academy Class
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Covers profile completeness, categories, services, photos, reviews, posts, local relevance, and conversion-focused improvements for stronger local visibility.

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CF

Copywriting Fundamentals

CORE Business Academy Class
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Teaches how to write clearer headlines, offers, calls to action, emails, pages, and social content by focusing on the audience and the outcome.

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4 Classes

Technology Bus Community Series

Accessible community classes delivered through The Technology Bus and partner locations.

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SE

Smartphone Essentials

CORE Business Academy Class
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Covers calls, messages, contacts, photos, settings, accessibility, updates, Wi-Fi, apps, and safer smartphone use.

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IB

Internet Basics

CORE Business Academy Class
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Explains browsers, websites, search, links, downloads, online forms, accounts, and safe navigation.

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CAA

Community AI Awareness

CORE Business Academy Class
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Introduces what AI is, where people encounter it, how it can help, where it can mislead, and what responsible use looks like.

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Technology Bus Demonstrations

CORE Business Academy Class
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An interactive introduction to The Technology Bus, its equipment, connectivity, mobile classroom capabilities, and available community learning experiences.

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The Technology Bus

The Technology Bus™ is the mobile classroom and community outreach division of CORE Business Academy.

Instead of being a separate offering, the bus becomes a mobile front door into the academy model by bringing practical classes directly to neighborhoods, schools, churches, libraries, community centers, senior communities, businesses, and events.

Powered by Starlink WiFi, it provides reliable high-speed internet access and a hands-on learning environment for technology, business, digital discernment, and community education classes.

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CORE Business Academy
A Business Education Organization by ASKCRAIGTEE and The Technology Business Coach™.