Now, more than ever, communities must pull together to build and sustain local resilience and recovery.  Business and community leaders all face the threats resulting from economic uncertainty and decline, and must now work together to create the 'new normal' to ensure the sustainability of their organisations and our wider community.  The pace of recovery for local communities and economies is largely dependent upon the ability for commerce and community to collaborate to address the social and economic issues we're beginning to face.  

Collaboration in the New Normal is not just cross-sector ie business and community, but within sector as well.  To this end, Local Works has joined forces with HR and Leadership Development experts to create and deliver a programme that can assist business and community leaders to respond to the crises resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdowns, and begin to prepare for their respective post-Lockdown recoveries.

COVID-19 RESPONSE:
​Practical HR and Business Resilience in Tough Times

Local Works is very pleased to be in collaboration with Spice HR and Jon Dunning to deliver a practical range of resources and assistance for businesses and organisations to take action and tackle the immediate challenges of COVID-19.
Ditch one size fits all and off the shelf approaches - we will work with you to conduct a Business Response Assessment Meeting, where we discuss your specific needs and priorities.  From there, we'll create a tailored plan of 1:1 support and ready-to-use resources with positive outcomes across three core areas 

Managing the business and leading your team in tough times

  • Resilience
  • Personal leadership
  • Leading others
  • HR essentials

Keeping the business running by working in new ways

  • Remote working
  • Remote coaching
  • Values-based business in tough times
  • Health and Safety  

Supporting and caring for your team in tough times 

  • Pulse surveys
  • Employee wellbeing
  • Communication and consultation
Practical HR and Business Resilience in Tough Times is registered with the Business Advisory Fund.  As such, businesses may be eligible for support through the fund.  Find out more by visiting www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz
Why local works
Our communities are jigsaws where successful business needs strong communities, and strong communities need successful businesses.

Local Works helps clients and communities to clearly define their piece(s) of the jigsaw, who they need to connect with and how, to achieve their goals and objectives.  The result… smarter connections, better business, better bottom line, better place to live, learn, play and earn.
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Drawing on over 25 years experience in corporate citizenship, cross-sector collaboration and community development, Local Works will work with you and you​r team to develop and deliver innovative and enjoyable community investment strategies, projects and activities that have impact.

Community Investment

  • is a considered deployment of money and resource across a continuum where motivations for engagement range from purely altruistic to a deliberate ‘enlightened’ self-interest.
  • encompasses a variety of tactics and tools across the continuum to achieve participants’ desired outcomes, individually and collectively.
  • usually seeks to pool and leverage existing resource for mutual benefit.