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ACADEMY / RESEARCH TO PRACTICE
These are course-design hypotheses drawn from occupational duties and business planning requirements. They do not claim all veterans or military spouses lack these abilities. Learner self-assessment and employer interviews should test each hypothesis before curriculum approval.
Practice gap: Convert service leadership into a budget, process metric and written decision.
Course path: Business Cash Flow · Operations and KPIs
Evidence: O*NET project management specialists coordinate budgets, schedules and procurement.
Assessment: Build a 13-week cash forecast and brief a correction to an operating team.
Review original source ↗Practice gap: Move from reading a statement to forecasting, explaining assumptions and communicating risk.
Course path: Read Financial Statements · Investor and Funding Skills
Evidence: BLS describes financial analysts using data, forecasts, reports and presentations.
Assessment: Reconcile a forecast, label assumptions and present an investment-risk summary.
Review original source ↗Practice gap: Turn hands-on experience into documented design verification and test evidence.
Course path: Mechatronics Systems · Electronics and Circuits
Evidence: O*NET mechanical engineering tasks include testing systems and assessing design performance.
Assessment: Prepare a safe bench-test plan, results table and design review.
Review original source ↗Practice gap: Validate customers, estimate startup costs and defend a realistic funding request.
Course path: Veteran Business Launch · Funding Decisions · Pitch Presentation Skills
Evidence: SBA planning guidance calls for startup-cost estimates, a business plan and financial projections.
Assessment: Build a one-page business case, use-of-funds model and six-minute pitch.
Review original source ↗Practice gap: Lead with a decision and show evidence, tradeoffs and next steps in limited time.
Course path: Executive C-Suite Presentations · Public Speaking Foundations
Evidence: O*NET management analyst profiles emphasize explaining ideas orally and using presentation tools.
Assessment: Deliver an eight-minute decision brief and answer a simulated CFO question.
Review original source ↗Practice gap: Translate lived experience into a concise audience benefit with accurate, consent-safe storytelling.
Course path: Motivational Speaking · Public Speaking Foundations
Evidence: Proposed training need inferred from communication demands; no source measures a veteran-specific deficit.
Assessment: Record a three-minute message and assess what listeners remember.
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