Effective Communication is about building relationships and understanding, creating opportunities and partnerships, and above all, focusing on clarity and connection. You will learn about the guiding principles of excellent communication, including but not limited to: active listening, navigating complex conversations respectfully, understanding communication styles, persuasion, emotional intelligence and empathy.
Come learn some tricks of the trade from the owners of 4 successful eateries. You'll discover how they got involved in the business and their industry experience prior to going on their own, what groundwork they did before launching, what would they say to aspiring restauranteurs, and how they have managed menus, staff, landlords, food costs, marketing, COVID and much more.
Join us for this interactive discussion on all things e-commerce and you’ll learn the fundamentals of operating a successful online shop. We will discuss tips, tricks, tools, and strategies on how you can make your first 100 sales online, retain customers, market to new customers, and more.
Social enterprises have become mainstream rather than a peculiar vague structure just to do social or environmental good. From the familiar sphere of circular economy to clean tech, vegan luxury, and bigger dreams like carbon economy, the variety of activities is growing. This workshop will help you learn how to build impactful and profitable social enterprises through the lens of business and impact model innovation.
There are nearly 2,780 social economy businesses. However, there are still a lot of questions around establishing a social enterprise. Choosing the right type of legal entity to register is perplexing! Should it be an incorporation (Quebec vs Federal), a nonprofit or a charity? What is the emerging notion of B-Corp? And then how about blood in the veins, funding? What organizations can help? What are the eligibility criteria for funding?
Join the panel of social entrepreneurs to hear their experiences, stories of uphills and downhills, and how they're running their impact-oriented businesses while thriving financially. In this Q&A panel, we will follow social entrepreneurs' journey through gruesome chasms. From designing the business, validation, and go-to-market, all the way to gaining traction and growth.
This workshop is geared towards newcomers or individuals who may or may not have run a business before but are looking to do so now. We will explore how to find the right networking group for you, leverage virtual connections and convert them into working relationships, and build your echo chamber.
This workshop will help you to determine the key elements of a standard contract, to understand its drafting, and to become more familiar with the basics of its interpretation so you can better protect yourself, your art and your labour.
In this workshop, Brittany Witham will walk you through how to set up and maintain a virtual advisory board, how to customize your board to suit your business's needs, and will share examples of successful board results with templates you can use for yourself.
This workshop will show you how to build your collective at the start of your entrepreneurial journey and how to grow your team as your business grows. It's ongoing work to must adapt over time as the market, your customers and your team changes, and as you learn, but the most important thing is to start now.
This workshop will help you to focus on your offering and find the gaps that your clients need in order to create the elusive ‘white space’ and develop a Blue Ocean Strategy. Applying this concept will enable you to create and capture uncontested market space, thereby making your competition irrelevant. You will also learn how to leverage your ecosystem and community in order to finesse your growth plan and scale sustainably.
Regardless of experience level, this workshop is for you if you'd like to save time by quickly finding and assessing funding opportunities, increase your grant application output by integrating new skills with existing habits and enjoy a calmer, more confident approach to the grant application cycle.