AUBURN — The Corporate and Community Services Department at Central Maine Community College is offering the Small Business Institute, a series of workshops designed to help small business owners improve performance and profitability.

The first workshop is titled “Is Entrepreneurship Right For You?” It will be held Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $79, including materials. Participants will discover if entrepreneurship is right for them by examining the optimism, flexibility, frugality, motivation and the self-confidence that a small business owner needs to succeed.

The workshop will be taught by Kurk Lalemand, LPBC. Lalemand, a licensed business coach with more than 30 years of business experience, is president and owner of NEXT Level Business Coaching in Auburn.

For more information or to register, contact Central Maine Community College Corporate & Community Services Department at 755-5280 or 800-891-2002, opt. 7; email: [email protected]; or visit: www.cmcc.edu/training.

Registration deadline for this program is Oct. 19.