Business Calendar

BisNet Breakfast - August 725 Creswick Road

Business Conversations Trench Room, Town Hall, 225 Sturt Street, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Australian Taxation Office

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Small Businesses are invited to an event hosted by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). There you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn about new products and services designed to help you
• Talk to representatives from various government departments about what services they can provide for you.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Responsible Business - Improving your triple bottom line Federation University Caro Centre, University Drive, Mount Helen

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Federation Business School

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Responsible businesses are better businesses - they are better for people, the natural environment and they are profitable. People want to work for responsible businesses, customers want to buy from responsible businesses and responsible businesses want to do business with responsible businesses. Find out how your business can improve its financial bottom line by improving its social and environmental performance. This workshop will explore the holistic approaches to responsible business and how these can benefit your business.

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Improving your Business with Health and Safety Mercure Ballarat Hotel & Convention Centre, 613 Main Road, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Worksafe

Cost: FREE (bookings essential, includes lunch)

Free advice for small business owners on Occupational Health and Safety and Return to Work as part of the Small Business Victoria Festival, you’re invited to attend free WorkSafe seminar in Ballarat. Hear from our experts as they discuss Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws, and your obligations under the Workplace Injury, Rehabilitation and Compensation law to help injured workers return to work. You can also share your experience with others and get advice
from our experts on OHS and Return to Work problems or concerns. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how you can improve your business by providing a safe and healthy environment for your workers.

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After Five - August Body Brilliance Pilates

Secrets of my Success Crowe Horwath, 21 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Crowe Horwath

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

At this interactive and relaxed forum, 3 local experienced business owners Kate Davis of Eventique, Peter Koukovinos of the Charcoal Pit, and Stephen Macdonald of Albins Performance Transmissions will share their reasons for success. They will share their highs and lows and what they would do if they had their time over. A great opportunity to pick up advice that will help you tread your own path to success whilst enjoying lunch and networking with like minded business owners. Regisration is essential as numbers are limited.

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Preparing your Business for Succession or Sale Oscars Hotel & Café Bar, 18 Doveton Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Butler Chartered Accountants

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

This workshop will help you to understand the Issues and Problems around preparing your business for sale or succession. This interactive workshop will use real case studies to highlight the issues around preparing your business for sale or succession.

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Workplace Relations everything you need to know about hiring and firing employees Oscar’s Hotel, The Garden Room, 18 Doveton Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Harwood Andrews

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Harwood Andrews Accredited Specialists in Workplace Relations, Jim Rutherford and Sonia McCabe will present on the latest developments and updates to Workplace Relations Law. Covering the do’s and don’ts of managing employees this session will be of particular interest to business owners and those working in management, human resources, industrial relations or organisational development.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Young Professionals Network - Trivia Night Mitchell Harris Wines

Working from Home: What you need to know Trench Room, Town Hall, 225 Sturt Street, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Victorian Small Business Commission

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Working from Home: Everything you need to know! Are you working from home or thinking about it? Join the Victorian Small Business Commission, the Small Business Mentoring Service and the City of Ballarat Statutory Planning Team at
this expert panel session and luncheon to discuss everything you need to know about working from home. We will cover what you should be aware of to ensure that your home based business is set up for success, including what laws apply
to you as well as tips for staying productive. There will be an opportunity for Q&A for the panel to answer all of your questions as well as time to network with other business owners and operators. This is a free event but registration for all attendees is required for catering purposes.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Eureka Dinner Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Ballarat Grammar

Cost: Invitation only event

The Eureka Dinner is an annual event celebrating the collaboration between the Secondary Education sector and Ballarat Business. The Dinner is hosted on a rotation basis by Ballarat Secondary Schools, with Ballarat Grammar being the
2017 host.

Safety Messaging: ingredients for business success Oscars Hotel & Café Bar, 18 Doveton Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Ballarat Regional Occupational Safety and Health Group (BROSH)

Cost:
$25 BROSH Members
$35 Non Members

Not just another safety slogan: communication strategies to shape your safety message. The OHS Act 2004 places a duty on employers to consult with their employees on health and safety matters. For the most part, employers engage in communication about items of safety. However, most safety messaging fails to miss the mark by focussing on the ‘what’ of safety, instead of the ‘why’.

This session aims to provide you with:

• Why safety messages create a threat response in the brain;
• The neuroscience of successful communication;
• How ISO45001 aims to the set the standard of safety communication; and
• Steps to create ‘sticky safety messages’ that engage your workforce.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Mindshop Excellence Various Industries in Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Commerce Ballarat in partnership with Mindshop

This invitation only event is an interactive work experience program for Year 10 secondary students. The students spend one week in industry with the challenge of working on a “live” problem and reporting their findings back to the senior management team.

For further information on the Mindshop Excellence program: Visit www.mindshopexcellence.com

Tenderwrite Workshop Trench Room, Town Hall, 225 Sturt Street, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by City of Ballarat

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Take the mystery out of the tender process and learn how to achieve greater success when submitting tenders. This free workshop includes:

• Overview of City of Ballarat’s Procurement process
• How to source tender opportunities
• Understanding tender documents
• Writing successful tenders
• Tender evaluation and how winners are decided

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE or

AHRI Breakfast Forum Mercure Ballarat Hotel & Convention Centre, 613 Main Road, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by People @ Work

Cost:
AHRI Members: Free
Non Members: $20.00 (bookings essential)

HR professional’s forum, featuring an informative presentation on current human resources trends.

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Understanding risk in small business, a session that just may save your business Oscars Hotel & Café Bar, 18 Doveton Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Simplex Insurance Solutions

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Simplex Insurance Solutions is proud to host Professor Allan Manning from LMI Global, a leading expert in Insurance who will be sharing his expertise.  Understanding risk is a vital part of running any business regardless of size. There are an ever increasing number of risks, particularly through the heightened reliance on the internet, social media and greater risk management by larger organisations who have adopted strategies of passing the risk off onto smaller enterprises. This session will look at how to identify risk, measure it, and plan to avoid it. It will explain that insurance is not the total cost of risk, but the cost to transfer the risk away from the small business owner and their family, to an insurance company. It is therefore not about obtaining the cheapest price, but understanding the key covers available and ensuring that the policy coverage and the claims service of the insurer are in line with your risk appetite.
The hosts will be Insurance and Risk Management specialists who assist businesses at the time of a loss and the aim of this session is to ensure you have the appropriate knowledge and coverage in place for it is far too late after.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Manager and Supervisor Return to Work Training Ballarat Golf Club

Cost: FREE

The first 48 hours after an injury are critical. Frontline staff in any organisation have an important role to play in the RTW process and ultimately in supporting a successful RTW outcome. This training session is specifically targeted for supervisors and managers to help handle injured workers in a positive way whilst having a clear understanding of the legislative requirements and costs associated with poor return to work outcomes and to define a supervisors role within the return to work process.

The training will focus on early intervention and incorporate best practice strategies

Register here

Effective Business Networking Ballarat Business Centre, 15 Dawson Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Ballarat Business Centre

Cost: $20.00 (bookings essential)

Learn how to build relationships, communicate your value quickly and effectively, and build your reputation through both offline and online networking. This short 2-hour workshop will help you develop effective networking skills with the latest
techniques and insights straight from experts who have built successful businesses. It’s also a great way to meet other small business operators in your area, grow your confidence, and put your new skills into practice.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Breakfast workshop - Building a culture for Innovation Mercure

Cost: BIIG members free, $55 non members

Your business culture will either promote innovation or limit this.  It either encourages people to think about the organisation or think about themselves.  It encourages people to strive for excellence and growth in doing new and different things or to play it safe and keep out of trouble.

The way people think about novelty, risk and failure will have an enormous influence on whether innovation is a nice idea or a genuine way of doing things in your business.

In this workshop we will identify certain attitudes and behaviours either limit or promote innovation and effective problem solving.  The crucial role leaders play in encouraging either effective or ineffective behaviours in others will be explored along with practical tips. 

Garry Trotter | Partner      SED Leadership & Culture

After several years in senior international leadership roles, Garry returned to Australia and in 2005 established SED Leadership & Culture.  The key objective of this business is to enable senior leaders to achieve their core purpose… ‘To create the environment where everyone can be their best’.  SED Leadership & Culture now works across a diverse range of clients drawing on a robust understanding of organisational psychology and leadership experience to devise practical, evidence based approaches to change.

Key outcomes of Garry’s work include senior leaders gaining significant insights into the gap between how they would like to impact on others and the actual impact they are having.  Significant shifts in leadership styles are the result of highly effective and sustainable behaviour change strategies.  At an organisational level, the impact of the current business culture on performance outcomes are understood, and senior leadership teams take responsibility for their role in creating a constructive culture based on common purpose and standards of excellence.

For more information on the Ballarat Innovation Industry Group ( BIIG) visit http://www.ballaratinnovation.com.au/

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Leading Mindfully Housey Housey, 12 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Leadership Ballarat & Western Region

Cost: $35.00 (bookings essential, includes a copy of “Leading Mindfully” book)

In this two-hour workshop, Professor Amanda Sinclair will share stories and practices from over a decade of introducing mindfulness to many different groups of leaders. Drawing on her recent book “Leading Mindfully” and incorporating some of the latest cognitive neuroscience research, Amanda will show how small shifts in our habits of thinking and ways of being can help us be more effective in leadership as well as finding pleasure and enjoyment in the work. Amanda argues that mindfulness is uniquely suited to the day-to-day of leadership in families, schools, communities and other organisations; all those situations where we are seeking to influence others towards positive outcomes. For all of those who regularly feel captured by an expanding ‘to do’ list with insufficient time and energy for the things that matter, mindfulness promises a simple, sustainable and powerful path. Hosted by Leadership Ballarat & Western Region, the workshop will be experiential and interactive: an opportunity to practise mindfulness as well as learn about it.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Activate Ballarat Networking Event Housey Housey, 12 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Leadership Ballarat & Western Region

Cost: FREE

Activate Ballarat is a bi-monthly networking event which brings together new Ballarat residents and established community members. It acts as an information channel to promote existing social, professional and community networks, events and support systems.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Presentation of Mindshop Excellence Certificates BGT, 14 Hill Street, Mount Pleasant

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Commerce Ballarat in partnership with Mindshop

This invitation only reception is for students and industries involved in the Mindshop Excellence program who will present their findings to teachers,  principals, students and local business leaders.

For further information on the Mindshop Excellence program: Visit www.mindshopexcellence.com

Job & Skills Drive Ballarat Technology Park – Central, 106 – 110 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Highlands Local Learning and Employment Network

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

The Jobs and Skills Drive aims to reach a broad audience of secondary school students and young job seekers from the Ballarat region. The sessions provided will help to build aspiration, provide information, increase understanding, link job-seekers to employers and improve understanding of the job-seeking process. The program will include: Creating a Best Seller Resume, First Impressions Count, What Employers Want and the Ballarat LIVE Job Find. Local employers will participate by sharing their knowledge with future job seekers.

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Business Real Property in SMSF’s Oscars Hotel & Café Bar, 18 Doveton Street South, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Butler Chartered Accountants

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

This is a workshop to discuss the impact of the new Superannuation rules that come into effect July 1 2017, on small business owners who own or are looking to own business real property in their Self-Managed Superannuation Fund. In addition, it will look at recent changes to limited recourse borrowing arrangements and how they impact your property holding in an SMSF as well as the interaction with the changes to contribution limits.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Setting your business up to grow, the legal things you need to know Provincial Hotel, The Ivy Room, 121 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Harwood Andrews

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Ensuring you have the right information when growing and diversifying your business will give it the best chance of success. Harwood Andrews Principal, and Accredited Specialist in Business Law Rod Payne along with Harwood Andrews Lawyer Stephen Kirby will present on the legal essentials you need to know when setting up your business up for growth including the getting right business structure for you and how to best protect your personal assets from business risk. If you are increasing staff, diversifying products or services, moving online or entering a new market this is the session for you.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Social Media Q&A for Business Freight Bar & Restaurant, Corner of Peel & Mair Streets, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by JRM Social

Cost:
$25 for Commerce Ballarat Members,
$30 Non Members (bookings essential)

The seminar will begin with an initial presentation, but will then move to a dedicated Q&A session so attendees’ real questions and issues can be addressed. This approach aims to give participants real advice they can take home and apply to their businesses marketing. Attendees will be contacted in the lead up to the event and asked to submit a question or area they would like addressed so common themes can be assessed and practical advice provided. Tickets include light refreshment, and a drink afterwards while networking.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

When Buyer Met Seller Mercure Ballarat Hotel & Convention Centre, 613 Main Road, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Cost:
VCCI Members: $20.00
Non Members: $30.00

Provide a forum to exhibit, meet and network with others in the business community to explore trade, business and investment opportunities with a focus on doing business in Asia.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE or

Customer Touch Points Craig’s Royal Hotel

Starting a Business Crowe Horwath Boardroom, 21 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Crowe Horwath

Held as part of Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Find out how to:

• Assess the feasibility of your business idea
• Write a business plan (required by banks)
• Choose the right business structure
• Monitor results
• Assess associated risks
• Finance your business
• Source insurance cover.

Take away knowledge, new skills, and valuable checklists to help you achieve your goals.

Gov4Business Trench Room, Town Hall, 225 Sturt Street, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by City of Ballarat, Regional Development Victoria & AusIndustry

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

Come along and hear from City of Ballarat, Regional Development Victoria and AusIndustry about the support available to your business from the Local, State and Federal levels of government. Areas covered will include current services, resources and programs for businesses at all stages of their lifecycle from starting to expanding, exporting and more. The event will include opportunities for networking and morning tea afterwards.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Small Business Bus Commerce Ballarat 27 Doveton Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Small Business Victoria

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

The Small Business Bus will be visiting Ballarat as part of Small Business Festival Victoria. Free one-to-one mentoring with a business expert and professional assistance from a Small Business Victoria information officer will be available on board.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE or

Festival Roadshow Mercure Ballarat Hotel & Convention Centre, 613 Main Road, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Small Business Festival Victoria

Cost:
Early Bird ticket prices until July 28th
Regular ticket prices from July 29th
Group discounts available

Want your business to soar? Come and meet Lydia Lassila OAM Lydia Lassila is an Olympic gold medallist who will inspire you with her story of how she  turned sporting adversity into business advantage.

The aerial skier suffered a career-threatening injury while jumping in the 2006 Games. Frustrated with the inefficiency of the rehabilitation products available, Lydia designed and developed BodyICE to fulfil her needs. The product proved so successful it is now sold around the world.

Join Lydia for dinner where she will share her business secrets.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE

Small Business Bus Commerce Ballarat 27 Doveton Street North, Ballarat

Held as part of B31 Ballarat Business Month
Presented by Small Business Victoria

Cost: FREE (bookings essential)

The Small Business Bus will be visiting Ballarat as part of Small Business Festival Victoria. Free one-to-one mentoring with a business expert and professional assistance from a Small Business Victoria information officer will be available on board.

For further information and to book: CLICK HERE or