A new monthly Business Breakfast Workshop, "FIRST FRIDAYS", designed to provide practical individual support to Business Start-ups and Businesses in the early years of operation, is running in the Landmark Hotel Carrick on Shannon from the First Friday in October (2nd) from 7 to 9 am, Light Breakfast included. Numbers are strictly limited to provide quality support to each Business. It is also an opportunity to meet regularly with like-minded people in similar situations.

Brian Dolan delivers this ten-month programme, put together to get more money in your door by the end, and make your business easier to run at the same time. Once you get your business activities documented, we can work together to develop a tailored growth plan that suits you and your business.

The Workshop will cover ten topics, one each month, and at the same time, get everyone together to help sort out your business problems as they arise.

If you need individual or confidential Business mentoring, that is included after Breakfast on a one-to one basis.Local Enterprise Office Leitrim is supporting the programme financially to reduce the cost to each Business Participating, helping to develop business sustainability and profitability in the County.

 Monthly Business Topics

• October; Know your Business; Useful Office process to help measure and manage your Business; Dates & Deadlines for Tax
• November; Makers V Managers; Take Control of your Business
• December; Marketing as an Action Plan; Do this to get money in the door
• January; New Year; look Back on the year; look forward to the next; what do you want to happen this year?
• February; Tax Efficiency; Legal Structures and Record keeping for Tax
• March; Product Review; Profitability and Possibilities for new products
• April; islands of Profit; 80/20 Rule applied to profitability; what should you be working on?
• May; Key Man Policy; Are you indispensable? Use Checklists to create Job descriptions; can you grow?
• June; Employees; Opportunities, Legalities and Benefits; Contracts, Full time, Part time or Associates
• July; Working on your Business; Not in it; What are your long term Goals for Business Sale or Benefit; Pensions and Passive Income Strategies
• August; Take a Break! Re-charge your Batteries, and get ready for another great year.

 TIMETABLE

The Workshops run on the First Friday of each Month from 7am to 9am, with Breakfast  afterwards. It starts in October, and ends in July 2016.

 Programme of events;

  7.00; Straight Talking Business (A short Business Talk on new topic each month; or Guest Speaker)

  7.30; Workbooks; Complete your Workbook on last months activity in your business and Discuss in small Groups

 8.00; This Months Business Focus discussed and expanded. (See Monthly Focus list below) Any other Business; Topics raised during the meeting discussed and issues resolved

 8.30; Group Discussion and interaction from Workbooks; look back & look forward to next month. Individual Business and Workbook review.

 9.00; Breakfast & Networking. Individual confidential mentoring available & included. (Online Support throughout the month is also included)

 This programme is priced at €500 per Business.

With 50% Support from Leitrim LEO; €250 payable per Business

(Payable in two monthly installments of €125)

 You can contact Brian Dolan on briandolan@zoho.com with any questions and to book a place on this programme.