Achieving Business Growth Workshop
When: Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th August 2012
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Presenter: Dr Leith Oliver, ICEHOUSE, and University of Auckland
Member Price / BNZ Subsidy: $950 +GST ($1092)
Non-Member Price: $1375 + GST ($1581.25)
(NZTE vouchers for up to 50% of the full price may be available)
The SC Chamber is delighted to be bringing to Timaru, the award winning ICEHOUSE workshop, Achieving Business Growth, in conjunction with the BNZ. The workshop is designed for owner-managers and senior leaders of New Zealand’s small to medium enterprises, exporters and agri-based businesses and includes the following:
• Business Warrant of Fitness, Profit Planning, Growth Strategies, Performance Measurement
• Marketing Issues, Analysis, Evaluation, Opportunities
• Evaluating opportunities for growth in e-Commerce
• Organisation & Management Issues including motivating people in growth businesses
• Threshold Issues; Discovering the Drivers and Enablers of Growth – a Systems Perspective : A workshop to develop a systems diagram of critical issues and key activities that need to be managed in a growth business
• Developing a Growth Statement based on Vision, Critical Issues & Key Results
• Next Steps : The Strategic Planning Flow Chart and discussion
• Developing an actual 12 month action plan
Who should attend
• $0.5m - $5m turnover (and upwards)
• Been in business for more than two years
• Employ staff
• Looking for the next step up in the business
• Looking to invest in themselves by upskilling
Special guest Presenter: The one and a half day workshop will be presented by Dr Leith Oliver, a Strategic Planning facilitator and lecturer on the University of Auckland MBA programme and Post Graduate Diploma courses. Along with others from the University of Auckland Leith also heads up the course development and delivery team for the business growth programmes offered by The ICEHOUSE. His work with The ICEHOUSE includes a role as an Executive in Residence, providing mentoring guidance and disciplines to start-up residents of the ICE Accelerator business incubator. He also delivers
seminars on business planning and financial management to start-up companies. His work with the incubator includes analysis and design of the incubation processes and development of the internal operating systems of the ICE Accelerator.
ph (03) 687 2733 or email: commerce@southcanterbury.org.nz
