Resources

When it comes to future-proofing your people and business, upskilling is the way to go. In this episode, we talk to Eve Hayden, CEO at the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce about upskilling; what it is, how you can upskill yourself and your people, what tools there are available, and why training should be included in your businesses continuity plan.

In episode five, season four of BLP’s podcast, we hear from Belinda Botha, Founder/Owner of Side Dive Munda & Dive Munda Consulting about best-practice HR and how SMEs throughout the Pacific can “bounce back better” from the 2020 global pandemic.

BLP has prepared for you six interviews dedicated to understanding the impact of COVID-19 in the business community throughout the Pacific Islands, and to highlight the local strategies that are paving the way to business recovery. In the new series, our partners, business advisors and staff tell us how resilience, imagination and solidarity have kept businesses alive across the region.

In this episode we talk with business advisory expert, Dan Henderson from Enable Business & BHW Accountancy & Advisors in New Zealand, about the importance of investing in human talent, personal resilience and social sustainability in small business.

In this episode, Steve Knapp (Director of BLP) talks about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade (MFAT) funded programme Business Link Pacific, and the “missing-middle;” those businesses that are too big for microfinance and informal local investors, and too small or too risky for banks or direct investors.

In this episode we are joined by Wyndi Tagi and Eli Tagi, founders of WE Accounting. WE Accounting is a growth firm specialising in helping small and medium businesses across NZ and the Pacific.

In this episode, we get invaluable insight into the legal and business environment in Vanuatu from Vicki Joe, Partner at Law Partners.