Building a Strong Workforce

Are you struggling to find and keep hard-working people? And when you do find people, are they jumping ship to work for your competitors?

Free Facilitated Business Strategy Workshop

Every business needs good, hard-working people to succeed. Without the right people, you can’t take on more work or expand into new areas. You’re stuck.

Stuck on the tools.
Stuck doing the same kind of work.
Stuck in the frustrating cycle of hire > train > resign > hire.

Time to get unstuck.

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Building a Strong Workforce: Uncover the Secret to Creating a Hard-working, Long-lasting Team

Building a Strong Workforce is a 3-hour face-to-face strategic workshop facilitated by Hatch Solutions that helps business owners create hard-working, long-lasting teams. Full of practical tips, training and helpful resources, you’ll walk away with a clear plan of action to find and keep the people you need to sustain and grow your business.

Best of all, it’s FREE for NT-based businesses. It’s part of the NT Government’s Small Business Fitness Initiative which provides responsive support to regional businesses by building their capability and skills.

The #1 Reason Businesses Struggle to Maintain Reliable Teams

Lots of NT business owners have told us they’re struggling to find workers right now. No matter how good the conditions are or how many bonus extras they’re offering, they still can’t seem to find reliable people — the ones that stick around for the long term.

The problem is, there’s often a massive gap between what workers want and what their bosses think they want.

The token gift cards.
The fancy work lunches.
The access to a fishing boat.

These things aren’t going to make people stick around.

So what do workers really want?

Discover the Secrets to Finding (and Keeping) the Best People for Your Business

You’ll learn:

Top challenges facing business owners: why is it so hard to find reliable people?
The seven pillars of retention: what really matters to today’s workers?
What you’re doing well (and not so well): how well is your business meeting the needs of your people?
How to make your business stand out: what makes your business unique so people choose you over your competitors?
Practical ideas for building strong teams: what changes can you make today to break the hire > train > resign cycle?

At the end of our 3-hour facilitated business workshop, you’ll walk away with a clear understanding of what you need to do to build a strong workforce.

You’ll have an easy-to-follow action plan with some simple changes you can make over the next month, as well as some bigger things to put in place over the following year.

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But I’m Not an HR Person, Can I Still Do this Business Workshop?

Heck yes. In fact, it’s designed for real-life business owners and leaders like you.

You won’t be hit with a bunch of corporate nonsense or pie-in-the-sky theories. This strategic workshop offers real-world examples and practical ideas that you can apply to your business right now.

No cheesy trust fall exercises, promise.

Hear From Past Workshop Attendees

This session gave me the tools to compete in the war for talent
After attending this session I that I was able to grow my thinking around what I needed to do in retaining staff, from start to finish. With the war for talent you need to be doing everything you can to keep your staff, this session gave me the tools to do that.
Lauren Weatherall
Team Leader, State Government

Meet Your Speaker

Michelle Pedersen is the Managing Director of Hatch Solutions, an NT-based consultancy that helps businesses attract, retain and sustain their workforce.

As a business owner herself, Michelle appreciates the effort it takes to find and keep good people. She knows first-hand that it’s not just bonuses and fancy coffee machines that keep good people — there’s a lot more to it.

Originally from New Zealand, Michelle now calls Darwin home. She’s been in the NT for over 12 years and is familiar with the challenges that businesses in the region face.

She’s worked with organisations big and small and has seen what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to building a strong workforce. And she’s excited to share those secrets with you in this practical, hands-on business workshop.

Australian business workshop facilitator Michelle Pedersen

Invest In Our Free Facilitated Workshop

Believe it or not, this workshop is completely FREE.

Too good to be true? Nope.

The Northern Territory Government is committed to supporting NT business owners, funding several face-to-face facilitated workshops across the NT as a part of the Small Business Fitness Initiative. The initiative provides responsive support to regional businesses by building their capability and skills.

All it will cost you is three hours of your time. You just need to sit back and soak up all the practical tips and tools you can.

Psst…this workshop won’t be free forever, so get in while you can.

I want in!

Ready To Start Building a Strong Workforce?

Learn how to build a strong workforce so you can:

Break the frustrating cycle of hire > train > resign > hire.
Focus on growing your business into new areas.
Enjoy being a business owner again.

Sign me up!