Learn how to think and make decisions like an entrepreneur. Lateral thinking and creative problem solving are attributes of an entrepreneur’s right brain mindset. Understand what innovation is and how you can embrace it to enhance your business. Innovation can be as simple as improving your processes or bundling products and services for customer convenience. It doesn’t require you to invent something new.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand an entrepreneur’s mindset including lateral thinking
2. Learn about simple process innovation versus invention
3. Understand where your products/services are perceived to be on the Product Life Cycle

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Make better business decisions by adopting an entrepreneur’s mindset
2. Embrace innovation to boost your competitive advantage
3. Re-position your products/services to be more appealing to customers

About the Presenter: Greg Bower
Greg’s Business experience extends over 30 years across small businesses, not-for-profit, national and Multinational Companies.
This experience includes being on several boards of directors, including NFP, thus ensuring capability through all levels of business.
Greg has specialized in business-to-business (B2B) supply chains, manufacturing, sales, marketing, financial management and continual improvement.
Greg has significant experience living and working in regional Australia and understands the local business environment, its challenges and opportunities.
Greg has successfully worked with loss-making and turn-around businesses during the recent COVID situation.
Within these regional areas, Greg has led capital-raising ventures and business acquisitions, supporting local Councils/LGAs and Chambers of Business.
Strategic and business planning, and importantly ensuring implementation and outcomes from those strategies, is a skill Greg is passionate about.
Coaching and development for business owners and managers is a passion of Greg’s that is strongly supported by his background working with a wide range of business sectors.

About the Host: Dales Whyte
Dales Whyte’s career and success are achieved by utilizing the many skills gained in a diversity of business ownership and management roles, along with his successful ability to interact with people from all levels.
Dales’ ability to ask quality questions, drill down and understand the needs of small businesses has enabled him to provide advice and assistance to hundreds of small businesses across a diversity of industries.
His ability to communicate with customers is beyond question, with many years in radio, sales and marketing, making him a skilled and valuable advisor to regional businesses.