WORKSHOPS AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING
WORKSHOPS AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Workshops help your management team focus, plan and achieve their goals. We organise, facilitate and manage in-house workshops and training on your premises. We are experienced in managing company and industry wide events. We provide in-house training and workshops on topic areas including business plans, business models, marketing plans, new product and service development, export marketing plans, research and development plans, market analsysis and customer feedback. We can assist your management and staff with training and capability development in the areas of:
- Applying for government grants
- Developing new export markets
- Feasibility studies, research and development plans
- Creating and implementing marketing and sales strategies
- Improving project management skills
- New product and service innovation
- Obtaining customer and market feedback
- R&D Tax Incentive 2019: Training your R&D and Finance Teams how to map R&D activity to eligible expenditures.
- Preparing business plans
Business Plan Training
We provide business plan training in-house for your management and staff. Your team will learn how to develop a framework for your business plan, business model or business case. The training includes practical advice on presenting a logical flow of ideas and how to assemble the wide range of information required to prepare a business plan. It will include learning about how to identify gaps in the market and validate the value proposition. Training in business planning will cover the industry background, the product or service, the market, operations, management, the implementation schedule and financial projections. Business model skill development will include brainstorming and testing different ways of aligning value propositions with customer needs, beyond basic product innovation. Learning about preparing a business case will include clearly defining the business need and evaluating viable options. Your team will learn how to appraise the critical elements of a business plan, namely the people, the opportunity, the context and the risk and reward. The workshops can also include developing staff abilities to present the business plan, business model or business case to colleagues, investors or stakeholders. The training will upskill your management team and deliver a workable business plan for your enterprise.
R&D Tax Credit Seminar
Examples of Workshops we have Facilitated
Blueberries New Zealand Inc. Presentation to the member growers and associates of Blueberries New Zealand at their 2015 Annual General Meeting. The presentation covered funding strategies for Blueberries New Zealand including funding options for individual grower members and the industry body. The presentation covered international market development funding and strategies, research and development funding and strategies and funding opportunities across the orchard to market value chain. The presentation was held on 25 September 2015 at the Hamilton Airport Hotel and Conference Centre, Hamilton Airport.
Employers and Manufacturers Association. Presentation to Auckland high-tech manufacturers at the EMA Northern Region office, Thursday 27 February 2014. The presentation formed part of a Research and Development Awareness Seminar and covered advice on how to improve the quality of the business case when applying for a research and development grant. The presentation also included a case study on how R&D drives business growth at NZ Hothouse and a question and answer session. Other presenters included Ross Baker, Acting Group Manager for Grants, Callaghan Innovation; David Brumby, Managing Director, Rotaform Plastics; and Kim Campbell, CEO, Employers and Manufacturers Association.
Presentation to A J Park. Presentation to partners, patent attorneys and associates. This presentation was held in Auckland, on the 31st of July, 2013. The presentation included an overview of the Callaghan Innovation grants available to New Zealand firms for research and development into product, process and service innovation. The presentation covered eligibility criteria, R&D as defined under NZIAS 38 and FRS 13 and what is required of an applicant when preparing a business case for funding. The presentation included the latest criteria for R&D Project Grants and R&D Growth Grants, as well as a question and answer session.
Industrial and Engineering Distributors Association of New Zealand. Government Business Funding. Breakfast Presentation. This presentation held in April 2012, covered co-funding, research and development and innovation grants available through Callaghan Innovation. The presentation also included energy audit funding, commercial building design grants and the commercial sector efficiency lighting programme funding, available through the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority. The presentation was given to the executive members of the Industrial and Engineering Distributors Association of New Zealand.
Waitakere Enterprise. Business Grant Seminar. This workshop, held in March 2009, covered co-funding and business grants available through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Technology New Zealand, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and other providers. The workshop was hosted by Waitakere Enterprise with Michael Jamieson, from UHY Haines Norton, as guest presenter on project accounting and business planning systems.
Central Otago orchardists. Government Funding Workshop. The workshop covered co-funding and business grants available through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Technology New Zealand and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Presented to Central Otago orchardists at the Orchard Garden Function Centre, Alexandra.
Workshops: Research and Development Tax Planning
R&D Tax Credit Seminars. Including presentations on R&D planning, conducted in association with accounting firm Butts, Bainbridge and Weir, hosted by Waitakere Enterprise, attended by the IRD and supported by the Ministry of Research, Scienceand Technology at Central One, Waitakere Central Office Park. R&D Tax Credit Seminars. Including presentations on R&D planning, conducted in association with accounting firm Hayes Knight, hosted by Enterprise North Shore and supported by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology at North Harbour Stadium.
