Regional Business Partner – Management Capability Fund
Develop new skillsets in your business
Great South are the Regional Business Partner for Southland, and they can connect your business with capability building opportunities.
This includes connecting you with vouchers to subsidise the cost of workshops, courses and coaching across a wide range of business areas. It’s a co-funding arrangement, which means your business must pay some of the training costs.
Great South Business Growth Advisors will work with you to identify the areas where your business could benefit from further capability training and then connect you with the services available.
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Eligibility requirements
One-to-One training
To be eligible to participate in this scheme, your business must:
- Be operating with 50 or fewer FTEs
- Be GST registered in New Zealand
- Be operating in a commercial environment, i.e. is currently trading
- Be privately owned or a Māori Trust or Incorporation under the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 or similar organisation managing Māori assets under multiple ownership
- Have undergone assessment by a Regional Business Partner
One to Some Training
The customer must:
- Be currently trading and commercially viable in New Zealand.
- Have fewer than 50 full time employees.
- Have a New Zealand Business Number (NZBN).
- Be the business owner or decision marker, such as a senior manager.
- Complete a discovery or viability session with a growth advisor.
- Register on the RBP Platform and meet registration criteria.
- Businesses do not need to be GST registered to be eligible for one to some training.
Business should also
- Have the potential and desire to grow
- Demonstrate commitment to improving management capability. Indicators of commitment include seeking advice, working through the assessment process and a willingness to co-fund and commit time to capability-building activities
- Have an identified gap in its capability that can be addressed through management capability building and training.
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For more information please contact the Business Growth Advisors team at business@greatsouth.nz or visit business.govt.nz/regional-business-partner-network.