Optimise the Funds and Time in your Business

Port Pirie 6.00 - 7.30pm

Running a business doesn’t have to mean running yourself into the ground. Join Business Port Pirie and Time & Resource Optimiser, Bridget Johns, for a 90-minute power session designed to help you simplify your systems, free up time, and unlock funding opportunities.

This workshop is open to anyone to attend (You do NOT need to be a Business Port Pirie member). Whether you run a small business, work in a local service role, or are simply looking for practical tools to optimise your workload, you are warmly welcomed

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Health and Safety Representative Training

Online 8.45am - 4.30pm

This five-day program provides newly-elected Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) with the skills and confidence to identify and resolve workplace health and safety (WHS) issues. HSRs play an important role in organisations, advising colleagues about health and safety matters within the workplace and ensuring that safety standards are met. By representing workers in their group, HSRs provide an avenue for workers to raise safety issues within their workplace, ensuring that a process is followed to resolve any hazards or risks.

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From Team Member to Team Leader

Whyalla 9.00am - 4.30pm

This course, offered by Adelaide University, is designed for professionals about to make a leadership role transition or those recently transitioned.
Explore strategies to cope creatively with change in yourself and others.

• Learn the six leadership styles most useful for team leadership.
• Practice how to be flexible and use an appropriate leadership style.
• Identify ways to communicate effectively as a team leader.
• Discover your dominant conflict management mode at work.
• Reflect on and understand current team management focus

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Small Business Services Expo & Networking

Quorn 4.00 - 8.00pm

Come and join us for this free Expo & Networking Event for both community members and businesses!

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Free Coworking & Get Stuff Done

Port Pirie 9.30am - 2.30pm

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1:1 Business Advice and Planning

Port Pirie 9.30am - 12.30pm

Unlock personalised business support with Sea to Valley Startups in Port Pirie.

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Confident and Persuasive Presentations

Port Augusta 9.00am - 4.30pm

This course focuses on building confidence and effectiveness in public speaking, enabling you to engage audiences with clarity and impact.

What makes a good presentation?

• Presenting to large and small groups
• Knowing your audience
• Practice using effective presentation tools
• Preparation and delivery of a presentation

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Increasing your Professional and Personal Effectiveness

Port Pirie 9.00am - 4.30pm

Participants will identify key purposes, gain strategies for direction and confidence, and address behaviours that limit success.

What is covered in this course?

• Understanding what being effective really means.
• Clarifying personal and professional purposes.
• Distinguishing between what is important and what is essential.
• Applying the four Ds of success: Define, Determine, Design, and Deliver.
• Managing limiting beliefs and behaviours, including issues of control, reluctance to delegate, perfectionism, and procrastination.

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WHS for Managers anad Supervisors

Online 8.45 - 1.00am

Managers and supervisors within any organisation have a responsibility to understand and implement Work Health and Safety legislation and requirements. This ensures staff are working within a safe work environment.
Managers and supervisors are role models for staff. By demonstrating safety standards and carrying out duties with a complete understanding of legal requirements, managers and supervisors help create a safety culture in their workplace.
The South Australian Business Chamber has designed this course to ensure middle managers, supervisors and team leaders are aware of their responsibilities for maintaining workplace safety systems.

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WHS for Officers

Online 8.45 - 11.30am

As an ​‘officer’ under the Work Health and Safety Act, are you aware of your due diligence obligations and responsibilities? the South Australian Business Chamber’s WHS for Officers course outlines key responsibilities and provides clarity around your duties as an officer to help ensure due diligence in the workplace.

Responsibilities covered in this course include understanding Work Health and Safety legislation; defining relevant duties within your organisation; enforcing reasonably practicable regulations; understanding codes of practice; and the impact for failing to comply with legal requirements to ensure a safe workplace.

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Introduction to Project Management

Whyalla 9.00am - 4.30pm

This one-day course is suitable for participants working within operational roles and with limited or no knowledge of project management principles and tools.

• Increase your confidence and competence in the fundamentals of effective project management.
• Explore project management principles and philosophies.
• Identify the key stages in the process of formulating and completing a project from initial concept to completion.
• Consider the different types of projects – from “tangible” construction to the “intangible” organisational change programs.
• Participate in activities to develop knowledge and skills in applying project management theory.

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Career Roadshow

Port Pirie, Port AUgusta, Whyalla 10.00am - 2.00pm

The Career Roadshow is a premier careers event spanning five key locations in South Australia: Kadina, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Whyalla and Port Lincoln.

This event aims to connect local communities with employment and career opportunities, showcasing regional businesses, careers, higher education, training, and employment options.

Attendees will include school students, job seekers, and career changers, all seeking guidance for their future paths. With interactive displays, attendees will have the chance to explore career opportunities, apply for jobs, and enrol in courses on-site.

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WHS for Officers

Online 8.45 - 11.30am

As an ​‘officer’ under the Work Health and Safety Act, are you aware of your due diligence obligations and responsibilities? the South Australian Business Chamber’s WHS for Officers course outlines key responsibilities and provides clarity around your duties as an officer to help ensure due diligence in the workplace.

Responsibilities covered in this course include understanding Work Health and Safety legislation; defining relevant duties within your organisation; enforcing reasonably practicable regulations; understanding codes of practice; and the impact for failing to comply with legal requirements to ensure a safe workplace.

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WHS for Managers anad Supervisors

Online 8.45 - 12.30am

Managers and supervisors within any organisation have a responsibility to understand and implement Work Health and Safety legislation and requirements. This ensures staff are working within a safe work environment.
Managers and supervisors are role models for staff. By demonstrating safety standards and carrying out duties with a complete understanding of legal requirements, managers and supervisors help create a safety culture in their workplace.
The South Australian Business Chamber has designed this course to ensure middle managers, supervisors and team leaders are aware of their responsibilities for maintaining workplace safety systems.

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