If you are over 18 years of age and are thinking of starting or expanding a full time business, you may be eligible for the Starter Plus grant.

To qualify your business must fall into one of the three categories listed below:

• Introducing a new product or service
• Create a new process for creating or delivering a product/ service
• Introduce a new market to the region

This grant can provide up to $5,000 to offset expenses and offers training for start ups and business assistance for companies expanding. Additional program benefits include mentoring, workshops, networking, and more.

Start:  2:00PM
End:   3:00PM
Location:  Small Business Centre – 284B Wallbridge Loyalist Road, Belleville

Registration: Send an email to liz@smallbusinessctr.com or call us at 613-961-0590.

Accelerate to International Markets (AIM) Program

If you are interested in exporting internationally, but aren’t sure where to start, then Ontario Export Services is happy to be your partner at the outset of this exciting journey. The AIM workshops will help set you up for successful exporting of your goods and services abroad.

Being offered as a 2 day workshop – see below details!

Location:
Fairfield Marriot
Churchill Room
407 North Front St. , Belleville, ON K8P 3C8

AIM 101 – Day One
Oct 11 2017
9:00AM – 4:30PM
This day-long workshop will help you assess your export capabilities, and guide you through strategies and methods to identify your target markets.

• Researching and finding your way into a new market:
• Identify your target markets, competition, and value proposition; define and develop your target customer and choose a target market; create a comprehensive sales and marketing plan; and determine your mode of entry into the market.

Q&A – Ask the Experts
Ontario Export Services will be on hand to answer all your questions on new export markets and the programs and services available to help you.

AIM 102 – Day Two
Oct 12 2017
9:00AM – 4:30PM
This one-day workshop will go deeper into trade finance, transportation and logistics.

• Getting paid: the financing of exporting:
• How to mitigate risk using insurance and appropriate payment instruments.
• Getting your goods to market
• Understand transportation infrastructure and how to move goods across borders.

Q&A – Ask the Experts
Ontario Export Services will be on hand to answer your questions on these subjects and what your next steps should be.

REGISTER
For more information: adriana.carrillo@ontario.ca

How can we improve our relationships to build a more productive and collaborative workplace? Most people who ask this question realize that understanding the effectiveness of their own style of interacting is a starting place to improving their ability to work productively with others. This course is designed to help participants move past the negative effects of difficult workplace relationships to developing strategies for positive influence and contributing to a culture of trust and collaboration.

Are you…
avoiding conversations you know you ought to have?
wishing you could be more assertive and in control? 
losing patience with certain people or personality types?
having problems giving negative feedback?
feeling anxious before a difficult conversation?
wishing you had managed a conversation or an individual differently?
having trouble managing emotional customers, colleagues or employees?

Course Objective
To equip participants to deal more effectively with difficult workplace relationships.

Who should attend?
All managers and high-potential employees, Supervisors , Team leaders and Lead Hands, Manufacturing and Service Organization Managers, Human Resources Managers and
In-House Trainers

What you’ll learn
To understand your personal interaction style and the styles of others
What makes some work relationships difficult

Start:  9:00AM
End:   4:00PM

Investment: $ 559 plus HST, includes lunch and parking

ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

Your Forklift Operator Safety Certificate is valid for a three-year period. If your card has expired, you too will need this training session. This course meets or exceeds all Ontario and CSA regulations and standards.

Who Should Attend: This is a compliant course. Inexperienced forklift drivers, and those with moderate prior experience operating a motorized, counterbalanced forklift.

What You Will Learn:  Minimum skill levels for using a motorized, counterbalanced forklift in a reasonably challenging work simulation.  Practical, hands-on pre-use inspection, safe operating and parking/shut-down procedures. Practice under the helpful eye of the program trainer. Your knowledge and skill level will be evaluated, and only those able to demonstrate a minimum level of operational competence will receive documentation of successful program completion.

Start:  8:00AM
End:   3:00PM
Locations: Loyalist College & AllCan Warehouse (Belleville)

Investment: $249 + HST per person.

Requirements: All Participants are required to provide protective safety footwear to attend the warehouse portion of class.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

Hear how a fair wage program can have a Positive ripple effect in your business!

Join us for Breakfast at 7:30 as Josie Rudderham, Co-Owner of the Cake & Loaf Bakery in Hamilton will share the story of the success of Cake and Loaf and why they consider themselves “employee centered”.

Following Breakfast at 10:00 am, Josie will lead an interactive three hour workshop that will delve deeper into the information she shared at Breakfast. With some added hands on activities, she will engage you and get you thinking about how a Living Wage could work in your business!

The workshop will cover the following themes:

Being a living wage employer:

• What is Living Wage and how is it calculated?
• Benefits to employees and employers
• How to implement and derive maximum value

Creating successful work culture/Employee-centered work place:

• What does a successful work culture look like?
• The ideal employee- who are they and how do I keep them?
• FREE employee benefits and how to implement successfully

Creating a strong brand:

• Importance of strong core values in a brand
• Creating a story worth telling

EVENT DETAILS

Start: 7:30AM
End:  1:30PM

Location:
Travelodge Hotel
11 Bay Bridge Rd.
Belleville, Ontario K8P3P6

COST:
Option 1:  $25  Breakfast Only (includes only breakfast)
Option 2:  $50 Workshop Only (includes lunch)

Option 3:  $75 Breakfast and Workshop (includes breakfast and lunch)

REGISTER

Do you WANT to be your own boss?
Do you HAVE a business idea?
Do you KNOW what it takes to start a business?

Find out how you can be successful!

Learn what to consider when starting a business, why you need a business plan, why market research is important and where you can secure financing.

Start:  10:00AM
End:   12:00PM

Location:
Small Business Centre
Quinte Business Development Centre
284B Wallbridge-Loyalist Road
Belleville, ON   K8N 4Z5

Cost:  FREE

REGISTER 

This event is designed to get you out networking in a fun, relaxed atmosphere, and learning more about a particular business/agency within our community.
All members of the business community are welcome.

Event made possible through the generous sponsorship of Tipper Financial Services Ltd. & Capers.

Energy is a major topic in economic and environmental circles.

Join us for lunch as we discuss where energy is today, where it is going and what affect it will have to your business and our everyday lives.

Bring your questions and concerns!

Speaker:
Prince Edward-Hastings MPP Todd Smith was named the energy critic for the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park.  With the appointment, Smith is responsible for the PC Caucus response to one of the government’s largest and most complicated ministries.

Location:
Ramada Hotel Trenton,
99 Glen Mill Road, Trenton, ON  K9V 5P8

This one day event is a unique opportunity that puts many different employers under one roof to network with potential employees.

From a job seeker’s perspective this gives you the chance to explore and learn more about industries and organizations, to connect with employers face-to-face and demonstrate your own skills and assets that you can bring to an organization. Job seekers are encouraged to bring several copies of their resume.

From the employer’s perspective this is a great opportunity to profile employment opportunities, promote your organization and to meet and increase your pool of potential, qualified candidates.

Location:  Quinte Sports & Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Road, City of Belleville
Start:  10:00AM
End:     6:00PM

This event is sponsored in part by Quinte Region Employment Ontario Service Providers.

Visit http://quintecareerfair.ca/ for complete details!

The Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) is offering the following training/workshop events – open to all Food, Beverage and Bio Sector companies including those directly supplying manufactured product to the industry.

This initiative is supported by Growing Forward 2 (GF2) a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.

8:00AM – 12:00PM
Root Cause Problem Solving
Having a robust process for getting to the root causes of problems that occur and having a process for people to work collaboratively on solutions is the only way to resolve the issues
and sustain the implemented solutions for the long term. Companies begin to see immediate benefits and improvements to their abilities to solve many of the most annoying and frustrating problems, freeing up time and increasing productivity and quality within the workplace. Participants will see how proper root cause problem solving can eliminate the constant ‘fire fighting’ in the workplace.

1:00PM – 4:00PM
Introduction to the Kaizen Process for Implementing Change
Kaizen is the word for continuous improvement in Japanese. Here it has become a broad meaning word for improvements and an improvement process.
Participants will be presented with a variety of examples of kaizen events, improvements and daily kaizen activity designed to develop every employee into process improvement
champions. Imaging a world where employees come to work not just to do their job but where they come to help improve their job and company every single day. By the end of this workshop, participants will believe wholeheartedly in this process.

LOCATION:
Quinte Business Development Centre
284B Wallbridge-Loyalist Road
Belleville, ON  K8N 5B3

Directions and Map to QBDC 

REGISTER:
toliver@emccanada.org