Keen to grow and excel your business?
Wyndham City’s popular and free ‘Innovate’ series is back in 2023. The Innovate Business Growth Program is split into two streams!
The Innovate to Excelerate - Business Growth Program is aimed for those business owners to move up a level in 2023, find new directions, build new skills, extend business relationships and gain growth. This could be the right decision at the right time. Expectations are that the year ahead will challenge emerging businesses to find new ways to build capacity, performance and competitive advantage. This program is open for businesses that have operated for less than four years.
The Innovate to Regenerate Program targets those businesses that have operated for four years or more and are at a later stage in their business journey. If you experienced strong initial growth in your business but are facing challenges in taking your small to medium business to the next level, this is the program for you.
These programs consist of group sessions and individual business coaching.
Innovate To Excelerate Business Growth Program
The Innovate to Excelerate – Business Growth Program is designed for local business owners, who are at the initial stages of their business life-cycle, keen to make the most of these turbulent times and build their capacity to flourish in change and challenge.
Provided with new tools, insights and learning through group workshops, you and peer business owners are supported with experienced and qualified business coaching – you will be resourced to make choices on where and how to grow. Importantly the capacity to successfully innovate becomes a skill set that owners can bring to their businesses.
Apply now for the FREE 2023 Innovate to Excelerate Business Growth Program. With innovation at its core and planning its foundations, the program will assist you in answering how to achieve growth in 2023 with clarity and confidence.
We are looking for motivated, committed and ambitious business owners who can commit the time to the program and are open to business coaching.
Only one business owner per business can participate in the group sessions. However, by arrangement a business partner may be able to join you in the business coaching sessions.
The Innovate to Excelerate Program will be facilitated by Adrian Jobson of Acculture. Adrian is a highly experienced and qualified business coach, consultant, and mentor. Together with a highly skilled group, he has designed, lead and delivered the Innovate Business Growth program since its inception
Dates
Start date: Wednesday 14 March 2023 (first group session)
End date: Friday 30 June 2023
| Activity | Date | Time |
Applications open |
| Monday 16 December 2022 |
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Applications close |
| Wednesday 22 February 2023 | Midnight |
Selection of Candidates | Interviews with shortlisted applicants | Monday 28 February & Wednesday 1 March 2023 |
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Program delivered
| Workshop 1: | Tuesday 14 March 2023 | 9am-11.30am |
Workshop 2: | Tuesday 28 March 2023 | 9am-11.30am | |
Workshop 3: | Wednesday 12 April 2023 | 9am-11.30am | |
Workshop 4: | Tuesday 25 April 2023 | 9am-11.30am | |
| Workshop 5: | Tuesday 9 May 2023 | 9am-11.30am |
| Workshop 6: | Tuesday 23 May 2023 | 9am-11.30am |
| ONE-TO-ONE COACHING | Between 27 March 2023 Friday 30 June 2023 | By mutual agreement between participant and business advisors |
* While this is the anticipated schedule, it is possible that dates and times may need to change.
Eligibility
To be considered for the program your business must meet the following requirements:
- Based in Wyndham
- Hold an ABN
- Have been operating for less than four years
- Employ staff (this is not essential but preferred)
Businesses in all industries are welcome to apply.
Submit An Application For This Program
Applications are open and will close on Wednesday 22 February 2023.
If you are shortlisted, you will be required to attend a brief interview. This will assist with the final selection of up to 12 program participants.
Innovate To Regenerate Business Growth Program
You’ve been running your business successfully for a number of years, but you’re now finding that growth is slowing. And it’s getting harder to keep a handle on things and come up with new ideas to re-energise the business.
Most likely you’re still the centrepiece and the go-to for everything where everything is a priority. Aside from getting exhausted, you probably lack the time or headspace to come up with innovative ways of taking your business to the next level. Even those strategic initiatives you are thinking about get deferred to pursue the latest “shiny” new project. Or just put out another spot fire!
So what to do? The Innovate to Regenerate Business Growth Program has been designed for established Wyndham businesses that have operated for more than four of years, and now want to re-energise.
This program will help you;
- Develop new innovative ways to market your business
- Uncover possible new markets that you may not have considered. Or if you have considered them, develop an attack plan to make it happen
- Learn to delegate successfully, so the whole business doesn’t depend solely on you - because if the founder doesn’t delegate control, then business growth will max-out quickly
- Automate parts of your business with innovative processes designed to free you up to work ON the business
- Discover management reports for better decision making. If you have the right information and important data, growing your business is so much simpler
- Learn innovative ways of not only recruiting the right people, but also keeping your current team motivated to run the business like it was theirs
With the Innovate to Regenerate Business Growth Program you’ll get that much-needed outsider’s perspective from a trained business consultant who has helped hundreds of small-medium business owners grow their businesses. This is not a cookie-cutter program – the business consultant will get to know your business and help you implement your ideas successfully. If you want to go quickly in business, go alone. If you want to go far in business, go with others.
Apply now for the FREE 2023 Innovate to Regenerate Business Growth Program
We are looking for motivated, committed and ambitious business owners who can commit the time to the program and are open to business coaching.
Only one business owner per business can participate in the group sessions. However, by arrangement a business partner may be able to join you in the business coaching sessions.
The Innovate to Regenerate program will be facilitated by Brad Regan, of Real Edge in Business. Brad has assisted hundreds of businesses more than double in size and move into the top tier of their industry by helping them grow their revenue, profits and the value of their business.
Dates
Start date: Wednesday 22 March 2023 (first group session)
End date: Friday 30 June 2023
| Activity | Date | Time |
Applications close |
| Thursday 2 March 2023 | Midnight |
Selection of candidates
Program delivered
| Hold interviews | Wednesday 8 March & Thursday 9 March 2023 |
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Workshop 1: |
Wednesday 22 March 2023 |
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Workshop 2: | Wednesday 5 April 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
| Workshop 3: | Wednesday 19 April 2023 | 9am-10.30am |
Workshop 4: | Wednesday 3 May 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
Workshop 5: | Wednesday 17 May 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
Workshop 6: | Wednesday 31 May 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
Workshop 7: | Wednesday 14 June 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
Workshop 8: | Wednesday 28 June 2023 | 9am-10.30am | |
ONE-TO-ONE COACHING | Between 27 March 2023 Friday 30 June 2023 | By mutual agreement between participant and business advisors |
Eligibility
To be considered for the program your business must meet the following requirements:
- Based in Wyndham
- Hold an ABN
- Have been operating for more than four years
- Employ staff (this is not essential but preferred)
Businesses in all industries are welcome to apply.
Submit An Application For This Program
Applications are open and will close on Thursday 2 March 2023.
If you are shortlisted, you will be required to attend a brief interview. This will assist with the final selection of up to 10 program participants.
Testimonials
- “Innovate came along at the perfect time for me. I met some stellar people and local businesses, the vast majority I continue to be in contact with. I have continually recommended businesses to apply, and I’m really happy to see some come through successfully and motivated to succeed!”- Michelle Tinyou, Biznify
- “The program was really good, learnt a few things that really shifted things in my business. The business has doubled year on year since then - Gracious Chidhakwa, Eagle Life
- “It was the best thing that ever happened to my business. In the month that we finished, I had the best month so far due to the new things I implemented, main one being commercial photography. I’m not numbers focused but I was able to plan out the year in terms of marketing and strategy. Admittedly, due to covid a lot of this didn’t eventuate but with the addition of commercial, I was able to trade when the portrait side was closed. It was not only beneficial financially but also personally. I received a lot of business through the group and made some wonderful connections. I have referred many people to the program, some that have not been successful in their applications and some that were. I often refer to that experience as a pivotal moment in my business journey and bought myself a watch to commemorate the success of Nov 19. Highly recommend and would love to do another one for alumni as a follow on to this program.”- Kristie Dutson, Inspired Photography
- “I think it is amazing it’s offered. Such an innovative program.” - Joanne Seymon, Kaiko Fidgets
More Information
Wyndham City Council – Economic Growth Unit
business@wyndham.vic.gov.au or phone 0448 708 498