Hawke's Bay Seminars and Workshops
Our Hawke’s Bay office offers a full calendar of seminars and workshops to help with your business training and development. In 2025, our specialists will cover leadership, HR and employment law, HR disciplinary and performance, tax and more.
See below for details (more to come in 2025) and return to this page for upcoming activities, including our popular Women Influencing Women events.
Leadership development programme
When: 2025 - Wednesdays in April, June, August & October
Time: 8.30am to 4.30pm
Where: 205 Hastings Street South, Level 1, Hastings New Zealand
Cost: $6,500
This training is registered with the Regional Business Partner network, and you may be eligible for partial funding. Find out more by visiting them or email rbp@hbchamber.nz for more information.
Let us help you develop your leadership practice...
Join organisational development expert, Andrea Stevenson and her team in 2025 to hone your leadership skills. Beginning in March with profile testing, this 10-month programme will focus on enabling you to lead yourself, your team and your business. You will gain insight and growth through five days of workshops, individual coaching sessions and your own personal 360-degree profile with feedback and a leadership project. You will also complete a personality, development and motivational profile using the renowned Hogan Assessment System which focuses on high performance in the workplace.
Four years of programmes have taken place and some of the participants have said:
- "I have found this course to be really valuable – it hits the mark and provides heaps of 'aha' moments. Very inspiring"
- "The tools and shared experiences were very valuable. The hard self-reflection encouraged is great and I really enjoyed the high-quality guest speakers."
- "Great presenters, great variety of presentations. Feel very motivated when I leave the sessions and I am implementing different tools into my practice."
Topics Include:
Leading Self
- Self awareness and personal insight
- Resiliency
Leading Others
- Leadership styles
- Understanding team dynamics and team roles
- Leaders as coaches
- Build your coaching capability
- Motivations
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Delegation
Leading the business
- Strategy and planning
- Culture
- Change management
- Time management
- Interactive "partnership coaching"
2025 Programme Dates
The workshops are from 8.30am-4.30pm and lunch is provided.
| Programme dates | |
| 2 & 3 April | Introduction, Workshop 1 & 2 |
| 4 June | Workshop 3 |
| 6 August | Workshop 4 |
| 15 October | Workshop 5 |
HR Workshop Series 2025
Let us help you tackle your tough employment issues .....
Please join our Associate and HR Employment Specialist, Kerry Tattersall and HR Consultant Georgia Rogers as they lead our 2025 HR Workshop Series. They will deliver these in person or online two hour informative workshops on everything you need to know about how to tackle disciplinary issues, poor performance, restructuring & redundancy, and absence management. Check out our flyer for specific details or contact Kerry.
All workshops
- Time: 9am – 11am
- Cost: $399pp + GST
- Location: 205 Hastings Street S, Hastings in person or MSTeams Online
Managing Poor Performance
- When: Thursday, 27 February (IN PERSON) or 11 September (ONLINE)
Absence Management & Medical Incapacity
- When: Thursday 13 March (IN PERSON)
Restructuring and Redundancy
- When: Thursday, 17 April (IN PERSON) or 9 October (ONLINE)
Navigating Through A Disciplinary Process
- When: Thursday, 29 May (IN PERSON) or 13 November (ONLINE)
HR & Employment Law Update Seminar
Be sure to register for this complimentary informative seminar with Baker Tilly Staples Rodway HR Consulting Team and Libby Brown of Brown and Bates at 7.45am on 6 November as they bring you a brief on HR and Employment Relations issues and going-ons and facilitate some relevant HR conversations.
At this seminar you will get the latest information in HR as well as Employment Law, to include relevant changes in law for employers and overview of recent case law.