Do you have too many opportunities and never enough time?

Feeling overloaded and want help, but don’t know where to start?

Want to know how to plan for growth during uncertainty?

In this workshop you will learn to grow your business through improvements in planning and strategy.

This free workshop focusses on helping business owners make strategic decisions to plan for growth and take advantage of opportunities. You will walk away with the right tools to plan for the next 90 days and stay in control.

Set yourself up for success and take this opportunity to work on your business in a supportive and collaborative workshop.

What’s in it for me?

• walk away with a simple 90-day plan on a page to grow your business
• gain the tools you need to reset your plan and stay in control after your 90-day plan has ended
• complete a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to better understand your business landscape.

Brisbane City Council, with Growth Education Institute, is delivering this workshop series designed to enable business owners to grow their business with easy-to-use tools. Each workshop will deliver practical takeaways to make doing business easier. These sessions are just some of the ways that Council is planning for a growing city by backing businesses with more support in the suburbs.

Extend your learning at the Business Excellence: In Conversation session on Thursday 24 February to listen to a panel discussion on business planning. You can bring your questions and meet likeminded business owners with a networking session.

Topics and speakers

Amanda Cole, Commercial Director and Co-Founder, Growth Education Institute

Amanda is recognised as an expert in strategy for small business, having facilitated more than 100 strategic growth training sessions and has chaired the advisory boards of eight companies from their beginnings, growing to $500m in turnover. Her strategy knowledge is based on working with business owners in Brisbane for the last 20 years and seeing what processes work to assist small businesses to grow.

She is also Australia’s first and longest-serving female Chair for leading peer mentoring organisation The Executive Connection, recipient of the Centenary Medal for Business and winner of the Telstra Young Business Woman’s Award (Qld) in 2000.

Tara Jacobsen, Program Director and Co-Founder, Growth Education Institute

Tara has more than 20 years’ experience in business growth education and strategy. In that time, she has founded three training organisations in Safety Leadership (Registered Training Organisation), Neuroscience of Leadership and now small business growth through the Growth Education Institute (GROEI).

Tara has been the program facilitator with University of Southern Queensland’s ground-breaking Wire Program (mentoring regional female entrepreneurs) and lectures in entrepreneurship, innovation, decision making, business, leadership and management for a number of leading Australian institutions.