Marketing for Growth: If you’re a business owner and have a basic understanding of marketing but want to know more, this workshop is for you.

Finding and keeping the right staff: In today's changing workplace, finding the right person for the job can sometimes be a challenge.

Business Networking Breakfast: This is a terrific opportunity for businesses to hear from a fantastic speaker/s before some dedicated networking time so you can meet new and like minded business people and extend your networks.

Tax Basics: Covers: Getting started in business, income and expenses, goods and services tax (gst), employing people, reporting and paying, record keeping and dealing with the Tax Office.

Record Keeping: Record keeping essentials for business with practical exercises.

Business Deductions Essentials: This session covers some of the more common business income tax deductions in some detail, as well as expenses you can claim immediately.

Activity Statements Essentials: Covers: the purpose and layout of an activity statement, the GST labels, the PAYG withholding labels, other activity statement labels and how you can use activity statement data to plan and budget.

Northern Business Achievement Awards Networking Breakfast: Network with over 200 businesses from across Melbourne’s north and be motivated by successfull local business award nominees David Markus, Founder and Managing Director of Combo and Kane McErvale, Managing Director of Verve Portraits.

Getting the right staff: When looking to employ staff there are many things to consider and a number that you can’t afford to get wrong.

Time (What Small Business Owners want and how to achieve it): Working on, not in the business   This is the first in the series of seminars.  To follow: Seminar 2 - Team: Developing high performance employees Seminar 3 - Systems: Developing systems for a

Keeping the Right Staff: Have you ever asked yourself “What do I need to do to keep good staff?”

Team (What Small Business Owners want and how to achieve it): Developing high performance employees.   The remaining seminars in the series are: Systems - Developing systems for a high performance business; and Money - Growing sales and building profitability

Reducing Costs, Improving Quality and Releasing Time to GROW your Business: Identifying the seven forms of Process waste Understand what Lean thinking is and how you can apply tools & techniques to eliminate process waste

Systems (What Small Business Owners want and how to achieve it): Developing systems for a high performance business.   The last in the series of seminars is on Money: Growing sales and building profitability.