GROW YOUR BUSINESS – SUNSHINE COAST
Edgeware’s amazing free two day course builds a one-page Operational Plan or Marketing Plan in class using Simpler Business tools, free of charge with no strings attached, highly commended by more than 700 Edgies.
The program is offered through a partnership between Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship, the Australian Industry Group, the Queensland Government and Wide Bay Institute of TAFE. The GYB course is based on a suite of Simpler Business planning and decision-making tools, combined with rich interactions with a highly skilled facilitator who has current small business experience and a passion for sharing knowledge and making change.
The program is offered FREE OF CHARGE
Enquire or enroll now – ludmila@edgeware.com.au
WHEN AND WHERE?
Monday 12 and Monday 19 November 2012; 9.30am – 4.00pm
The Research Centre, 47 Mayers Rd, Perwillowen Q 4560 (Nambour)
Create a one-page business plan in class using Simpler Business tools
WHAT IS IT?
BUILD YOUR BUSINESS is a business skills program aimed at developing viable new business, or a new strategy or profit (surplus) centre for an existing business. It will also help existing organisations who want to build business activities from within. BYB is highly personal, relationship-based, modified for individual needs and talents and capable of changing as circumstances change. And it’s delivered with a sense of humour!
WHO’S IT FOR?
People who are interested in starting a new business that makes a real difference, or creating new revenue for an existing business. (And this includes not-for-profits – we recognise that ‘not for profit’ also means ‘not for loss’!)
WHO’S OFFERING IT?
The program is offered through a partnership between Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship and Wide Bay Institute of TAFE, and hosted by Tourism Fraser Coast. Edgeware is a highly effective and innovative education system for ethical, socially-aware entrepreneurs and ‘intrapreneurs’. We base the BYB process around a suite of Simpler Business planning and decision-making tools, combined with rich interactions with highly skilled facilitators who have current small business experience and a passion for sharing knowledge and making change.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
The program is offered FREE OF CHARGE, subsidised through the support of our partners.
WHEN AND WHERE?
Two Blocks of Workshops:
(1) Sunday 11 (evening), Monday 12, Tuesday 13 November (full days)
(2) Sunday 18 (evening), Monday 19, Tuesday 20 November (full days)
Sundays: 5 – 8pm; Mondays and Tuesdays: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Participants must commit to attend all six workshops.
Venue: The Bayswater, 569 – 571 The Esplanade, Hervey Bay
Build Your Business Tools include: Forming an idea and business case, clarifying product/service offerings and target market segments, giving customer value, defining objectives, marketing, pricing, and other tools which together form a One Page Business Plan. BYB puts new ideas through a sieve, as part of a recipe for success.
WHAT THEY SAY
I particularly found useful that I can now scope a project and build a business plan in 24 hours, then either discard the concept or make a decision to run with it. Prior to my Edgeware learning this could have taken weeks. For me, you absolutely nailed the mix of skills any Intrapreneur (modern manager) needs, combining decision making tools and inexpensive marketing processes. Your program had it all, terrific content and a great mix of facilitators. Wayne Lee, Business Relations Manager, Career Keys, Logan City
Networking is a key to success in business, especially in regional Queensland and Edgeware gave me the opportunity to connect with other local like minded people. I connected with other Edgies and with presenters with long term partnerships developing as a result. Shelley Pisani, Creative Regions, Bundaberg
Edgeware takes a bunch of people with big ideas, throws them in a pot, sprinkles them with hard-won wisdom, gives them a stir, then lets them stew. It’s a great way to meet like-minded souls and thrash out what it takes to get your venture off the ground. Alan James, Al et Al, Noosa
It was great. A course like this should have been around 20 years ago. Stephen Davies, Weed & Pest Control, Kununurra
FACILITATORS
Workshops are co-facilitated by Ron Crump and Amanda Moffatt, both small business entrepreneurs who are ‘walking the talk’, along with sessions from local guest presenters.
RON CRUMP has a wealth of applied practical business and people experience in both large and small enterprises through his roles as a facilitator, leader, chair, general manager, internal/external consultant and as a personal and professional coach. He has assisted in the building of a number of successful businesses. Ron has worked as an executive and internal/external consultant for the Public Trustee of Queensland, Suncorp, Electricity Commission of NSW, Arana Leagues Club, IAMA, RACQ, RACQ Insurance, Australian Bureau of Statistics, BP, BOC, Seaworld, Foodland SA, BSES and as the principal of Human Productivity Consultants.
AMANDA MOFFAT’s qualifications in education, the arts and counseling have seen her work in a variety of contexts including Indigenous communities, education from prep to tertiary levels, TESOL and people with disabilities. In 2010, Amanda launched Bowerbird Creative Programs, a creative enterprise that designs and facilitates professional development, innovative curriculum and personal wellness programs. She has trained as an Edgeware facilitator and now brings her wealth of experience to enterprise education and training.
Edgeware’s Fundamental Finance is an intensive one day workshop which gives small businesses the tools and techniques they need to realistically plan, implement and manage a financial plan tailored precisely for their enterprise. Edgeware’s training is delivered by facilitators who are themselves engaging with the realities of small business – time management, productivity, profitability, and personal stress. Our training is accessible and very practical, and delivered with a sense of fun and purpose. The workshop is kept to a small group of participants to allow concentrated and relevant ‘just in time’ skill building.
Saturday 3 November 2012, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Community Solutions, Level 2, Sunshine Coast Community Capital Centre
100 Sportsmans Parade, Bokarina, Qld 4575
Participants take away:
WHAT DOES IT COST?
$440 (includes workbook, spreadsheet files, BSV Box system, lunch & coffee/tea/snacks)
WHO IS THE FACILITATOR?
Originally from Argentina, SUSANA WALDRON brings a vibrant international flavour to Edgeware. Her extensive experience in big and small business finance, administration and training, mixed with her passion for education, personal development and the arts provide unique qualities that have assisted many professionally and personally. Susana is the founder of Blue Sky View, and uses the BSV Box in her training services for small businesses.
Edgeware’s Fundamental Finance is an intensive one day workshop which gives small businesses the tools and techniques they need to realistically plan, implement and manage a financial plan tailored precisely for their enterprise. Edgeware’s training is delivered by facilitators who are themselves engaging with the realities of small business – time management, productivity, profitability, and personal stress. Our training is accessible and very practical, and delivered with a sense of fun and purpose. The workshop is kept to a small group of participants to allow concentrated and relevant ‘just in time’ skill building.
Saturday 28 October 2012, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Visible Ink, 5 Green Square Close, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
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Participants take away:
WHAT DOES IT COST?
$440 (includes workbook, spreadsheet files, BSV Box system, lunch & coffee/tea/snacks)
WHO IS THE FACILITATOR?
Originally from Argentina, SUSANA WALDRON brings a vibrant international flavour to Edgeware. Her extensive experience in big and small business finance, administration and training, mixed with her passion for education, personal development and the arts provide unique qualities that have assisted many professionally and personally. Susana is the founder of Blue Sky View, and uses the BSV Box in her training services for small businesses.
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