LEADING YOUR RETAIL BUSINESS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES - PRACTICAL ACTIONS:

This Webinar will take place online and will provide an overview and a facilitated discussion on actions that can be taken now to mitigate the effect of the Coronavirus restrictions.

In recent weeks many Retail businesses have had to adapt quickly to a much-changed market. Most have seen a significant decrease in footfall and sales. This webinar will allow retailers the opportunity to plan in the short term and also prepare for and ensure readiness to trade again when the current crisis ends.  

This workshop will focus on five key strands in retail operations and allow participants to discuss and formulate strategic plans.

• Inventory turn stock in to cash, ensuring that stock loss is minimised, setting inventory controls to ensure optimum stock levels.
• Channels moving from single channel to multi-channel retailing, customer experience at this time.
• Finance controlling cash flow, supplier agreements, payment deferrals, state funding supports for staff.
• Communications identify internal/external stakeholders, Marketing, Social media presence, current trading options.
• Innovation use this time to set in place improved/new means to trade e.g. online presence, inventory controls, retail store layout, re-merchandising opportunities.

Each attendee will leave with a clear list of actions for the coming weeks.

Trainer:

Hosting this webinar is Mark English from award-winning consultancy Jigsaw VAE Ltd.  Mark is an experienced Retail Manager, with over 30 years sales, operational and leadership experience in Ireland and the UK, specialising in large store, high turnover environments. In the last 2 years he has branched in to mentoring & training small business owners and has delivered numerous programmes across the LEO network.

Who is this course for: Retail Business owners, Managers and Team leaders.

Please Note: Participants need to have a laptop, Tablet or smart phone to join this webinar with video and audio capability.  Upon registering, each participant will be sent an invitation to join the webinar and also to send questions in advance. 

This course is for Offaly based businesses only.  

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