Dundee

Consisting of six set webinars, the series is aimed specifically at those looking to re-open their physical business premises and those ready to rebuild their business in line with Government guidelines. Topics include:

Health and Safety

This webinar will look at how businesses begin their return to work, and do so safely, complying with the law and Government guidance. It will also delve into how SMEs can re-open and take appropriate measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on staff, visitors, and contractors.

HR – Returning to work

This webinar will explain the steps you need to take for employees returning to the physical workplace, including those who will be returning to work after furlough leave. It will also cover the responsibilities you need to consider as an employer and how to ensure you are meeting legal requirements.

Leadership - Leading in a Crisis

This webinar will provide guidance for leaders at all levels, including how to: lead through a crisis, provide direction when the future is volatile and complex, look after your own wellbeing, handle competing priorities and remain agile, avoid depending on a sole leader, remaining optimistic and more.

Business Continuity Planning

This webinar will look at the importance of putting a continuity plan into place for future improvement. Key areas of discussion will include business optimisation, reviewing and refining current practice, sales and operations, financial planning, controlling costs and more.

Planning a digital strategy post COVID-19

This webinar will allow businesses to examine new digital options such trading online through a website, offering virtual appointments, click and collect services, and more. It will also focus on how to create an effective digital marketing strategy and the appropriate channels to use, as well as how to market new products and services to new and existing clients.

Sales Recovery Planning

This webinar will assess how consumer behaviour has changed, looking at the specific techniques SMEs can implement in order to progressively generate sales again and establish a refined sales process.

For further information and to book your free places, head to the Events section of our website.

The service includes a redundancy pack, one to one adviser support and four webinars. Each one-hour webinar follows the Double Diamond approach to help individuals tackle challenges in a four-phase process:

• Discover
• Define
• Develop
• Deliver

Discover: Part one will focus on an idea generation workshop, with attendees looking at different ways to fall upon business ideas.

Define: Part two will help each attendee understand the importance of market research when exploring the viability of an idea and cover the key elements of the business model canvas for business success.

Develop: Part three will focus on the start-up requirements, with each attendee gaining a plethora of information for turning an idea into a business, including legal requirements and tax.

Deliver: Part four will focus on the funding and finance elements, from a personal survival budget, fixed and variable costs you will need to consider, to developing a cash flow forecast.

Those who attend will be provided with a personalised support pack from their dedicated business adviser.

For further information and to book your free place, head to the Events section on our website.

Our website is a great place to begin: we offer a business plan guide to download when you’re ready, market reports as well as handy online guides/articles, video tutorials and podcasts. Take part in our webinars to hone your start-up skills – from how to handle the legal requirements to getting your market research right.

Plus use our Planning to Start tool to guide you through the essential steps of starting up. It takes just 10 minutes to complete and then we can then use the details you give us to create your action plan, complete with links to relevant information and support.

We’ll also recommend free webinars to help you hone your skills and may refer you to relevant support from our partners.

A business adviser from your local office will also get in touch to see how else we can help at this stage and signpost you to a wide range of other support across Scotland.

With our help, you could be in business sooner than you imagined.

We know that your time is in short supply, so we offer 1:1 advice at a time and day to suit you. Together, you and your business adviser can tailor a strategic action plan to your ambitions. Need targeted advice on HR, Restructuring, Innovation, Exporting or Digital Marketing? Your adviser can help with that too. And if you need more specialist input, we can connect you with other sources of support.

Use our resources, support and tools to learn new skills, create opportunities and gain confidence.

We run around 3,500 events each year across Scotland, with webinars on topics from bookkeeping to social media.

• For free, comprehensive business intelligence and market research, you can turn to our Information Service.
• Browse our online A-Z of over 100 market reports or request a free report if your market sector isn’t covered.
• Our handy guides explain how to create a business plan, digital marketing strategy, HR, intellectual property and other essentials that can help your business through these challenging times.

Get in touch with your local Business Gateway office today.

Tap into our free local webinars, 1:1 expert adviser support and online tools and tutorials to help you improve your digital performance. Our DigitalBoost guides have been downloaded 20,000 times and some 1,200 workshops have together attracted more than 14,000 business people.

A DigitalBoost HealthCheck can pinpoint your digital strengths, where you could do more and how we can help. Take five minutes now to fill in our form and discover how to give your business a real boost.

Our advisers can help you look at your business challenges and then help you make the next practical steps. Along with that we can introduce you to PACE – Partnership Action for Continuing Employment.