Professional Development
ICBA offers you the best opportunities for professional development and collaboration at all levels of store management through our annual Retail Conference & PRIMEtime and special workshops. ICBA Professional Development programs deliver powerful education to advance your career and improve your store.
Retail Conference & PRIMEtime
Through the annual ICBA Retail Conference stores come together for mutual sharing and growing the business. The annual Retail Conference consists of business meetings, professional development and/or ICBA Institutes, social and formal business networking and the PRIMEtime Buyer & Vendor Exchange.
ICBA Professional Development Institutes
The ICBA Institutes consist of multi-day hands-on learning sessions focused on improving and expanding skills. Taught by professionals and colleagues from inside and outside of the industry, the curriculum-driven ICBA Institutes not only cover basic foundations for success like return on investment, assortment planning, financial analysis, marketing and merchandising, but also investigate core product category and critical issues.
PRIMEtime Buyer & Vendor Exchange
One of the most valuable opportunities available to you is our annual Retail Conference & PRIMEtime Buyer & Vendor Exchange. Our meeting features outstanding industry-leading education, professional development, social and formal networking and innovative and effective ways to strengthen relationships with vendors.
With ICBA PRIMEtime Buyer & Vendor Exchange you improve your professional skills, increase profits and lead your store to success. ICBA goes well beyond “typical”. During private, one-to-one PRIMEtime 20-minute and PowerHall 10-minute vendor meetings you initiate your own business agenda and explore new products, promotions and marketing opportunities. You also discover how ICBA resources and the Commit-Buy-Sell Programs bring you more customers, improve sales and raise standards.
For some product categories, the ICBA PRIMEtime empowers the all-year business advantage by offering the ECRM®’s MarketGate™ Application Suite and MarketGate Mobile™ software. This online software empowers you to schedule, review and prepare for PRIMEtime meetings; maintain and save contact information; communicate through a closed email system with bulk and individual emails; take and share notes from the PRIMEtime exchange; review and share product data and images; and conduct market and ad research.
Regional and Special Workshops
ICBA staff offers educational workshops that draw from some of the core concepts taught in the ICBA Professional Development Institutes. Workshop topics have included leasing, open-to-buy, buying programs, implementing great ideas, marketing and merchandising. Workshops are designed to address area needs, hot topics and support institutional store success.
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