Hawke's Bay Seminars and Workshops
Our Hawke’s Bay office offers a full calendar of seminars and workshops to help with your business training and development. In 2024, our specialists will cover leadership, HR and employment law, HR disciplinary and performance, tax, Xero and AI tools.
See below for more details and return to this page for upcoming activities, including our popular Women Influencing Women events.
Topical Tax Update
Please join us Wednesday 15 May to hear Kelly Nunan, Director of tax services, give an overview of recent taxation developments, including any noteworthy changes form the latest Tax Bill.
- When: Wednesday 15 May
Women Influencing Women – Pink Ribbon Breakfast
For the 7th time, our Women Influencing Women group would like to show support for the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation and we invite you to join us along with The Nutrition Clinic at our Pink Ribbon Breakfast on 29 May 2024. Last year we raised over $3,800 and would love your support to match this again.
So please join us for some breakfast treats generously supplied by our team, and some light hearted fun. This year we have Emma Winnie & Gina Hill, Registered Clinical Nutritionists from The Nutrition Clinic Hawkes Bay speaking to us about thriving through the perimenopause transition. We will talk through what actually happens to your body during perimenopause and practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to tackle the symptoms that arise.
Be sure to get glammed up in PINK for the event as there will once again be prizes for the best dressed. We are also delighted to have some fabulous raffle prizes up for grabs. The Nutrition Clinic has generously donated an Initial Consultation voucher and Mitchell's Nutrition Protein Powder, O SO U voucher and a pink themed basket from Total Food Equipment Ltd. So be sure to bring cash or card on the day to buy some raffle tickets. As always, there will also be an opportunity to purchase breast cancer merchandise.
Please feel free to bring along a colleague or friend to support this great cause. If you are unable to attend or would like to make a donation online to claim your donation rebate, please click here to be directed to the Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Women Influencing Women Pink Ribbon page. Full details of where your funds go or what your donation could fund is on their page.
Eftpos facilities available thanks to ANZ Bank. To attend this event, please donate $25 when registering.
- When: Wednesday, 29 May
- Cost: $25
Management Development Programme
Looking for tools to manage yourself, manage and inspire your team and make an impact on your business? Then the 2024 Management Development Programme is for you! The programme includes three separate full days of workshops, two individual coaching sessions, and an action plan to help you build a high performing team and manage effectively. It can also can be run in-house so please contact Kerry Tattersall if you have any questions regarding this programme.
Lunch will be provided. This programme is registered with the Management Capability Development Fund. Find out more by visiting their page.
- When: Programme dates run for 3 days beginning in July
- Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
HR Workshop Series 2024
Let us help you tackle your tough employment issues .....
Please join our Associate and HR Employment Specialist, Kerry Tattersall as she leads our 2024 HR Workshop Series. She will deliver these two hour informative workshops on everything you need to know about how to tackle disciplinary issues, poor performance, and restructuring & redundancy. Check out our flyer for specific details or contact Kerry.
Managing Poor Performance
- When: Thursday, 14 March and 3 October
- Time: 9am – 11am
- Cost: $350pp + GST
Restructuring & Redundancy
- When: Thursday, 11 April
- Time: 9am – 11am
- Cost: $350pp + GST
Navigating Through A Disciplinary Process
- When: Thursday, 5 September and 14 November
- Time: 9am – 11am
- Cost: $350pp + GST
When: 2024 - Wednesdays in March, May, June, August & October
Time: 8.30am to 4.30pm
Where: 205 Hastings Street South, Level 1, Hastings New Zealand
Let us help you develop your leadership practice...
Led by organisational development expert, Andrea Stevenson. Join Andrea and her team in 2024 to hone your leadership skills. Beginning in March, this 10-month programme will focus on enabling you to lead yourself, your team and your business. You will gain insight and growth through six days of workshops, individual coaching sessions and your own personal 360-degree profile with feedback and a leadership project. You will also complete a personality, development and motivational profile using the renowned Hogan Assessment System which focuses on high performance in the workplace.
Four years of programmes have taken place and some of the participants have said:
- "I have found this course to be really valuable – it hits the mark and provides heaps of 'aha' moments. Very inspiring"
- "The tools and shared experiences were very valuable. The hard self-reflection encouraged is great and I really enjoyed the high-quality guest speakers."
- "Great presenters, great variety of presentations. Feel very motivated when I leave the sessions and I am implementing different tools into my practice."
Topics Include:
Leading Self
- Self awareness and personal insight
- Resiliency
Leading Others
- Leadership styles
- Understanding team dynamics and team roles
- Leaders as coaches
- Build your coaching capability
- Motivations
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Delegation
Leading the business
- Strategy and planning
- Culture
- Change management
- Time management
- Interactive "partnership coaching"
2024 Programme Dates
The workshops are from 8.30am-4.30pm and lunch is provided. This programme is registered with the Management Capability Development Fund. Find out more by visiting www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz.
| Programme dates | |
| 6 & 7 March | Introduction, Workshop 1 & 2 |
| 1 May | Workshop 3 |
| 26 June | Workshop 4 |
| 14 August | Workshop 5 |
| 16 October | Workshop 6 |
Please join our HR Associate and Licensed Private Investigator Kerry Tattersall on 14 March in a workshop that will focus on the skills needed to help you tackle poor performance in order to get your employees back on track.
In this two-hour workshop, Kerry will take participants through the procedurally correct and fair process of dealing with poor performance to ensure that any employer having to initiate a PIP does so as per the good faith principles of the Employment Relations Act.
Each participant will leave the session with the step-by-step guide to running a PIP.
Be sure to register for this complimentary informative seminar with Andrea Stevenson, Director at Baker Tilly Staples Rodway and Libby Brown of Brown and Bates at 7.45am on 13 March as they bring you a brief on HR and Employment Relations issues and going-ons and facilitate some relevant HR conversations.
At this seminar you will get the latest information in HR as well as Employment Law, to include relevant changes in law for employers and overview of recent case law.
In recent times, every business has been impacted by some form of change and disruption and there are many uncertainties facing businesses today. This makes identifying and managing potential risk in your business more crucial.
At our complimentary seminar, How to Manage Risk, we'll discuss the potential risks you need to manage across your entire business, show you how to maintain a Risk Register, and identify mitigation strategies to ensure your business is prepared and protected.
Please join us on Wednesday 21 June 2023 at 7.45am where you'll:
- Learn why risk management is a key business strategy
- Understand potential risk across all departments in your business
- Discover how to identify, assess, and respond to risk
- Learn how to evaluate and prioritise risk based on impact and likelihood
- Discover risk management strategies
- Learn how risk management helps achieve more business freedom
We'll offer all attendees a Risk Identification Worksheet to help you identify risks you need to manage in your business.
Please be aware we will be having this event professionally recorded for marketing purposes. Please advise if you do not give consent to appearing in this video.
Seminar Series 2024
Every year we offer multiple opportunities to engage with our business community and this year is no different. Please join us on the determined dates as we deliver six complimentary informational seminars which allow you to network and learn the latest on the topic offered. Three topics are HR and employment law updates, one is a tax update and two are business advisory in nature.
Look for invites throughout the year but you can preview the entire schedule in our flyer. Select this link to view the entire collection and to register for any of the seminars.
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