The Government has unveiled a new nationwide training initiative aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses strengthen resilience and prepare for disruption.
Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Cameron Brewer announced the fully funded programme at the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce conference, saying businesses had been calling for more practical support to manage uncertainty and plan for future challenges.
The initiative will be delivered through the Regional Business Partner Network and will include a series of online webinars and in-person workshops running between May and August.
Brewer said the programme is designed to help businesses improve preparedness, strengthen continuity planning and reduce vulnerability to unexpected disruption. He said the training would focus on practical tools businesses could apply immediately to manage change and improve long-term resilience.
The workshops and webinars will be available free of charge for eligible small and medium enterprises, with additional online resources to be uploaded for on-demand access.
The initiative builds on existing support already available through the Regional Business Partner Network and coincides with Business Continuity and Resilience Awareness Week, an annual campaign promoting organisational preparedness and continuity planning.
Brewer said resilience planning had become increasingly important in a volatile global environment and was now a key part of ensuring long-term business success.
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Fixed it for you:
The Government has unveiled a new nationwide appeasing initiative aimed at controlling small and medium-sized businesses to cope with being shafted via subsequent policies imposed by subsequent globalist governments and prepare for TOTAL destruction of New Zealand economy.
NOTHING will move in less than 6 weeks, FFS!
But the Kindergarten is still arranging lil chairs, while in parliament thej have fat chairs.
How much more money has the government borrowed to pay more consultants rip off fees for fluff eg climate preparedness honestly?
Prove you are serrioud about helping the private sector by halving the public service and halving senior staff salaries by 50%, removing tax free status for charities and demanding a salary cap of #50K for all employees of any NGO receiving taxpayer funding or contracts.
Free, if you exclude tax, gst, govt charges, fuel levies, import duties, export duties, government admin fees etc., etc.
And they’ll probably be a waste of time too.
A small business appeasing initiative on how to teach small businesses to keep operating without making a profit running marginally in the red all the time while slowly consuming the remainder of your other assests you have. Yeah right – thats how they are coping now ! How does the song go – ‘The road to nowhere’.
Many of my friends in tourism, private entrpreneuship, small/medium businesses and freelance practice have had their life destroyed by NZ governmentS.
I tell ya, they are all excited by that training offer.
Clown 🤡 world. GOVT consultants telling SME owners coping strategies. GOVT have caused the lockdowns, business stress and annihilated the small player. Then like abusive parents hug us and teach us resilience.