The Resilience and Innovation Grampians Project was facilitated by Commerce Ballarat and provided development opportunities to businesses located in the Ballarat, West Wimmera, Horsham, Ararat, Northern Grampians, Hepburn, Pyrenees, Moorabool, Golden Plains, Yarriambiack and Hindmarsh regions.

The programs objectives were to inspire innovation, build confidence, improve e-commerce and digital marketing and support business through their COVID recovery.

Click here to view the Resilience & Innovation Grampians Project - Evaluation Report

 

RETHINKING BUSINESS IN A COVID WORLD WORKSHOPS

Churchill said, "never waste a crisis" these thought-provoking sessions help all that attend to RE THINK their current business mindset, toolset, skill set and culture so as to navigate the covid world successfully. This interactive workshop is beyond just being 'agile' or requiring you to 'pivot' it’s about understanding how to scale your business today, the tools and techniques you will need and some of the basics of business we cannot forget if we want success. Customers and consumerism is being re shaped as a result of the pandemic, how will you create lifetime customer value and growth? the answers might just be at this session.

INNOVATION IN BUSINESS WORKSHOPS

How do you make positive difference to the business world and beyond? This will be an introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals and how to incorporate these into your world. Workshops delivered by Federation Business School.

READY SET GROW PROGRAM

RunwayHQ’s business growth program is designed for business leaders to learn and apply the skills needed to test and validate an idea to grow their business. Runway programs are practical and hands-on, building the capability to create impact quickly by applying expert knowledge and new skills to real-world business challenges and opportunities.

RunwayHQ’s business growth program consists of three key stages Ready, Set and Grow that build on each other sequentially to de-risk the investment required by business to identify, plan for, and activate new growth opportunities.

BE MORE DIGITAL PROGRAM

Be More Digital is a team of local digital specialists assisting businesses during their COVID recovery. The team of specialist will assist eligible businesses with mentoring in digital marketing and strategy implementation, e-commerce, web development and SEO. This service is being provided to approved business operators heavily impacted by the effects of COVID. Businesses will be eligible for 3 hours of free mentoring. Local providers are paid at an agreed hourly rate for their mentoring services.

LOCAL LEGENDS VIDEO SERIES & GRAMPIANS BUSINESS FILM FESTIVAL

A videographer will record one story of innovation and resilience from each region. These stories will be shown at a collective Gala event in Ballarat where we will invite the businesses, teams, and other stakeholders to attend the ‘Grampians Business Film Festival’.

The night will be a chance to celebrate our businesses and give share positive stories with our community. A panel of Judges and the audience will be given the chance to vote and choose a winner who will share is $5k to invest in future innovation of their businesses.

BUSINESS DAY OUT

As part of its role in providing a united voice, strong, reliable leadership and advocacy for Ballarat business, Commerce Ballarat is proud of Business Day Out.

Through this conference Commerce Ballarat aims to foster and promote excellence, innovation and growth within the business community.