May is Queensland Small Business Month, a fantastic opportunity for business owners to upskill on a wide range of topics.

In this supportive, collaborative workshop you will work through the best resourcing strategy for your small business. Plus, you will learn how to leverage the gig economy, freeing up your time so you can work on your business.

While it may seem easier to just do it all yourself, having a team can help you carry the load so you can focus on growing your business and be less stressed. But should you employ staff or outsource? What’s best for your business? And once you have a small team, how do you ensure success?

What’s in it for me?

• Tips and tools to enable and manage your small team.
• A template and process for writing more effective job descriptions that set people up for success and make it easier for you to manage.
• Understand how and when to leverage the gig economy to help you achieve more.

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.

Further your learning at the Lord Mayor’s Business Excellence Workshop – Grow your small business on 11 May 2022 at the Suburban Business Hub or 23 June 2022 at the Brisbane Business Hub.

Workshop facilitators

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 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.