Build Groom’s Business Capacity
The Build Groom’s Business Capacity Policy outlines how I will deliver my vision for Groom’s business community. It is an innovative, business community led and driven initiative that will build Groom’s business capacity, promoting the brand More4GroomBusiness.
I will develop a consultative network of public private partnerships supported by business-focused action groups from Small and Medium-sized Organisations (SMOs) and the three levels of government to address regional development policies.
This network will collaborate with established regional entities including Toowoomba Regional Council, Chamber of Commerce & Alliances, TSBE, Universities, Institute for Resilient Regions, the Australian Institute of Management and Regional Development Australia.
Goals
The Goals of Build Groom’s Business Capacity Policy include:
1. improving the performance of classroom to boardroom (student) employment outcomes
2. value adding to the national agenda to build regional development resilience
3. driving regional business development to create SMO investment and employment by utilising cross market knowledge, partnerships and entrepreneurships
4. enhancing Groom’s grant funding levels to make SMOs and businesses more innovative, competitive and viable
5. ensuring that grant funds and knowledge transfer is delivered throughout the region through private public partnerships and market-focused action groups.
Outcomes
Build Groom’s Business Capacity Policy will:
Create a Regional Network of Business Excellence by working with the private and corporate sectors to establish sponsorships, partnerships, business innovation, job creation, rewards, community engagement, and pathways from secondary schools to business careers.
Establish a Groom round table network with educational and corporate sectors, finding pathways to build grant funding capacity to educate niche markets.
Introduce small business action groups to filter employer and consumer feedback to gauge public sentiment, build confidence, inform decision making, and enhance sales to promote regionally produced products and services.
Address national economic conditions through liaison with action groups to reduce administrative, legal, and cost barriers especially at the regional level.
Prioritise local procurement using action groups to consult and educate, ensuring government contracts favour competitive local businesses and create pre- and post-Olympic engagement outcomes against regional KPIs.
Build regional business leadership capacity by building our local “brains’ trust”, fostering strategic regional business development policies suitable for niche markets.