Stepping up
Why good governance goes a long way in developing SME directors in a rapidly changing business environment.
Why good governance goes a long way in developing SME directors in a rapidly changing business environment.
The thriving Māori economy and workforce are shaping New Zealand’s future, with professional development, leadership, and Māori values driving transformative opportunities across industries.
A Doctoral Research Study in New Zealand is looking to identify currently successful entrepreneurial leadership patterns using the COVID-19 crisis as a testing ground. Are you a business owner or entrepreneurial leader in New Zealand who has led your business through the Covid-19 crisis successfully so far? New Zealand’s future business leaders need your help! Sandy Geyer (pictured) is calling on all business owners and entrepreneurial leaders of small businesses (ten to 49 employees) in New Zealand whose businesses, across all industries, have survived or thrived through the COVID-19 crisis (so far). Geyer, the founder of EnQPractice (www.enqpractice.com), is an entrepreneurial leader herself and works professionally in the area of entrepreneurial leadership and student leadership. Sandy is currently engaged in
Coming up with the necessary state of mind for creativity while we’re all dealing with Covid-19 is no easy task. However, Robyn Hill has discovered a strategy that works. I hear people talking about this period of restrictions as an opportunity to innovate, and I agree it is – resilience is, ideally, about thriving not just surviving. However, many of us are in survival mode right now – resilience is being tested and many of us are, understandably, not in the right head space to get creative. Even acknowledging this to ourselves can create additional pressure. I do not believe that anyone can be creative when feeling stressed or worried. Those of us who are – or like me were –
Thanks to a Government grant, Tokoroa will have a brand new $14 million trades training centre by 2022 catering for up to 500 students a year.
Is the fear of failure holding you back – in life and/or business? Janine Garner offers a strategy for embracing and overcoming your fear and moving forward. So often our fear of failure feeds our self-doubt and before we know it our ‘I can’t’ has suffocated any ‘I can’. We ask ourselves ‘Who would listen to me?’, ‘Do I have the experience to do this?’, ‘What if this fails?’. To be brilliant we have to see failure not as a dirty word but rather as an invitation to courage and an opportunity to learn how to become more. It was General Colin Powell who said, ‘There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
One simple little word that you use day after day in your life could be undermining and devaluing your performance in life and business.
Stewart Forsyth explains how to match existing experience and skills against new jobs in a new industry. Some industries are down and will likely remain down – the consequence of us going into lockdown and massively, going from looking after the needs of thousands of international students and millions of tourists to none of these visitors. Other industries are doing better – according to BNZ CEO Angela Mentis, travel, accommodation and restaurants are down, but IT, software and food supply have gone up. Correspondingly people are losing jobs in travel, tourism and hospitality, but there are opportunities in health, IT and food production and supply. The government is about to announce initiatives in construction and infrastructure – with the goal of
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Thursday 30 July 2026 | 7:00am – 9:00am
📍 Covert Theatre, 51 Mackelvie Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland
Everyone talks about the importance of business strategy, but what does it actually mean in practice? Strategy trainer Ryan Sproull cuts through the jargon to give SME owners a clear, practical framework for thinking strategically about their business.
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