SBA offers Administrative Management Courses, which are designed to improve the management efficiency and ``know-how'' of small business concerns within a community. SBA cosponsors these courses with educational institutions and community groups.

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community. One-day conferences covering some specific phase of business management, also part of the continuing activities of the Small Business Administration, aid community economic development programs. These short, ``streamlined'' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Production specialists in SBA regional offices are available to help individual small business concerns with technical production problems. Guidance and advice are available on new product research and development; new product potential; processing methods; product and market developments; new industrial uses for raw, semi-processed and waste materials; and industrial uses for agricultural products.

SBA serves also as a clearing house for information on products and processes particularly adaptable for exploitation by small firms. This may be helpful in improving the competitive position of established firms through diversification and expansion or through more economical utilization of plant capacity.