UNE Business School continues a warm relationship with Armidale Business Chamber, with our staff taking the opportunity to share expertise with the local business community.

The workshops, focusing on ‘Building your Business through Focus and Innovation’ across two weeks, offered two 1.5 hour sessions to draw out specific skills amongst participants.

The first of two workshops focused on the power of a values focused business practice. In this highly interactive workshop, participants clarified the values and direction of their business, developing a strategy that would allow them to unleash its full potential. This workshop was presented by Dr Phil Harrell, Senior Lecturer at UNE Business School and the Executive Director and founder of the training and consulting companies – The Leadership Alliance, and New England Management Development.

Attendees worked through their own challenges as well as collaborating with other local business owners to build solutions.

Between the two sessions, attendees had the opportunity to further expand on their strategies and have it reviewed at the second workshop.

The second workshop was presented by Dr Simon Burgess, Lecturer in the UNE Business School and experienced project manager and management consultant.

The research shows that entrepreneurs have a distinctive approach to innovation and success. In this second workshop participants learned how to recognise the elements of entrepreneurial thinking that they already use. Furthermore, they learned about the whole entrepreneurial mindset, and how it can be applied appropriately in the context of individual business activities.