Business Resilience Series

Launching the 2020 Business Resilience Series

We’re all feeling our way post-lockdown, but if there’s one thing to agree on its that change can sideswipe a business at any time. Just as buildings need earthquake absorbing foundations, our businesses need ingrained resilience to survive change.

Even if your business has survived (and some of you have thrived! congratulations!), we’re sure you don’t want to experience the same stress and fatigue that the shock brought.

So this ongoing series of Business Resilience Workshops is for ALL business owners and operators to continually review the strength and depth of your business’ foundations. We will keep the momentum up on business resilience, so if (heaven help us) we go back to Level 3 - or the earthquake hits - we can all be ready and use the lessons learnt to flourish not flounder.

Every Friday starting 17th July from 1-2pm at 3Mile, and via zoom

With content designed to be relevant to small, medium and large businesses, with a Wairarapa focus, we'll hear from local experts in employment law, ecommerce, wellness, cashflow forecasting, data, supply chain management, innovation, digital marketing. mentoring and more.

• 17th July: Managing Employees through Uncertainty

• 24th July: Building your ‘Storm Fund’ (2-3 months of working capital)

• 31st July: Working with a Mentor

• 7th August: How to know when it’s time to stop

• 14th August: Wage Subsidy and Employment Law Essentials

• 21st August: E-Commerce Essentials

• 28th August: Where to get good data (and how to use it)

• 4th September: The Emergency Management Office: working with councils in an emergency

• 11th September: Capital Planning - where to get the right money for your business

Sessions will be recorded and shared on the website. If you can be in the room, bring your lunch and feel free to stay - for free - for the afternoon at 3Mile to put into action some of the tips and tricks you learn, or just to spend time ON your business and not in it.

Swiftly: Be selling online in minutes

Want to get trading online quickly? Check out our friends at https://www.swiftly.nz/

You'll be selling online within minutes, at no cost.🤯

We're loving it as it will give people breathing space so you don't have to invest heavily at a crisis time.

It was built over the weekend as part of the Hack the Crisis hackathon - there's already one Carterton business in there - let's make this fly Wairarapa wide!

Step by step guide to getting started (its short - swift!) via the video below

#level3 #covid19 #lovelocal #wairarapa #hackthecrisis

Lists of businesses open in Level 3, and those who can help you get online

Are you open under Level 3 - add your details to this live, Wairarapa wide list of businesses so it’s easy for customers to know you’re open. It’s a public document, owned by no-one but supported by all!

And if you are a business that can help others get online to trade safely under level 3 restrictions, there’s a list for you to add yourself to, as well.

For everyone else - please use these lists to shop local #lovelocal #wairarapa