The Icehouse: Improving Business Planning Workshop
Name:
The Icehouse: Improving Business Planning Workshop
Date:
November 20, 2018 - November 21, 2018
Event Description:
This two day workshop will challenge your thinking, help you to identify new opportunities and then figure out how to turn them into reality. You will learn how to employ, organise, and motivate the people in your business.
Together with professional facilitators you will develop a 12 month action plan to help you stay focused and reach milestones to drive the business forward.
Who is it for?
Business owners who want to set their business up for the next stage of growth but have yet to identify which specific areas need focusWhat will be covered?
On this workshop, you will:
- Evaluate your current business, the product or service, and market opportunities
- Dive into the financial side of your business and discover ways to improve the financial performance
- Learn how to employ, organise, manage, and motivate the people in your business
- Identify critical issues within your business and develop tactics to approach them
- Develop a strategy for your business which includes a 12 month action plan
When and where?
20 & 21 November 2018FMG Stadium Waikato, 128 Seddon Road, Hamilton
Cost?
The cost of the workshop is $1,745 + GST*.
The workshop is accredited for a NZTE Capability Development Voucher**, and we can guide you through the application process.
The workshop is accredited for a NZTE Capability Development Voucher**, and we can guide you through the application process.
Facilitator: Chris Woods
Associate Professor, Department of Management and International Business, The University of Auckland Business School Director, Coal Spud Group Life Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. Kiwi born and bred, Chris' interest in entrepreneurship and the SME sector was sparked after working in Malawi as a small business advisor. She caught the entrepreneur bug, becoming 'hooked' on the passion and energy that entrepreneurs bring to what they do. She currently teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Maori Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Auckland. In 2003, Chris was instrumental, with the Post Graduate Students Association, in establishing the Spark Entrepreneurship Challenge. She has been involved with The Icehouse since its inception in 2001. Her consultancy work is with SMEs and family businesses in strategy development, learning and business growth.
*A special discounted price of $1,545 + GST is available to all BNZ Business clients and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand members.
** Note: to apply you must be GST registered.
Cambridge Chamber has partnered with Icehouse to offer this opportunity to Chamber members.
