With less than four days to go before Fife Business Week 2022 kicks off, businesses of all sizes and sectors have a great opportunity to access some free training, advice and support with more than 30 events taking place from Monday 7th November through to Friday 11th November.

The range of topics covered has never been so comprehensive from Business Sustainability, Improving Your Workforce Through Skills, Motivation And Engagement, Transitioning To Net Zero through to Talking Taboos In The Workplace, Top Five Cyber Threats Facing Small Businesses and Getting Your Business Tender Ready.  

These are just some of the important and valuable sessions to attend, whether online or face-to-face.

Improving Your Workforce Through Skills, Motivation And Engagement

Join David McLean from Creative Business Solutions in this interactive and informative session looking at where improvements could be made within your workforce.

The session will focus on four key areas, including current skillset and upskilling, motivating your workforce for change, engaging your workforce through upskilling and personal development and ensuring an efficient and effective workplace.

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Climate Action Fife Fund

The Climate Action Fife fund remains open with a grant of up to £5,000 available to small businesses based in town centres and shopping areas through Fife Council’s Fife Town Centre Digital Improvements and Energy Efficiency Grant.  

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Talking Taboos in the Workplace

There are certain subjects that can be uncomfortable to talk about in the workplace. Considered to be too awkward, too embarrassing or too personal for polite conversation by many employers, they will often shy away from or handle badly important issues including menopause, periods, bereavement, fertility, politics, religion and disability.

This seminar will help you discover how to tackle taboo subjects in the workplace and take away some hints and tips on how to navigate company procedures where these subjects can often come up and avoid costly employment tribunal claims.

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Advanced Manufacturing Tour and Cobot Demonstration

Fife College is hosting an Advanced Manufacturing Tour and Cobot Demonstration at its Glenrothes Campus showcasing the most up-to-date industry technologies covering pneumatics, hydraulics, robotics and PLC control, all of which are modelled on industry-standard production lines, creating a realistic, relevant, and high-quality training environment.

There will be a demonstration session on Collaborative Robots (Cobots) from SP Automation with the opportunity to get hands-on and learn how to programme a Cobot to perform key tasks.

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The Enterprise Roadshow will bring inspiring enterprise workshops, support organisations, networking opportunities and the chance for students to learn more about how to get into business and how they can use business to develop their skills for the future. 

The Enterprise Roadshow will showcase the wide variety of local entrepreneurs, support programmes and the general entrepreneurial ecosystem with Fife to give students the confidence to go for their dream of running their own business.

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Growing Your Business And Expansion Into New Markets

An interactive and informative session looking at where and how your business is currently operating, and where the opportunities for growth are.

Hosted by Creative Business Solutions, delegates will consider where to achieve growth and what growth looks like – concentrating on new market opportunities and growth strategies.

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Tenant Protection Act Becomes Law

Emergency legislation giving tenants increased protection from rent increases and evictions during the cost of living crisis has become law after receiving Royal Assent.

The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Act gives Ministers temporary power to cap rent increases for private and social tenants, as well as for student accommodation.

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New Workplace Initiatives Lead To Factory Jobs

CR Smith welcomed seven new recruits to its manufacturing plant in Dunfermline this summer, who all joined the company through cross-industry jobs initiatives that support people into work.

In partnership with DWP Fife, Kingdom Works and Fife College, CR Smith helped to create a new manufacturing skills academy and work experience programme introducing people to roles in despatch, warehousing and production. The collaboration proved a big success with six securing jobs in the fabrication and machine shop at the end of the programme.

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Spirited Performance At Trade And Consumer Shows Benefits Tayport Distillery 

Tay Spirits, the award-winning producer of premium vodkas, gins and liqueurs, is continuing to reap the benefits of engaging with InvestFife and Business Gateway Fife as the family business grows.

Trade Development Grants, accessed through Fife Council’s Trade Development Programme and administered by Business Gateway Fife, have enabled the award-winning Tayport-based distillery to attend key consumer and trade shows over the past six months.

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There are many different routes for start-ups looking at finance options. Taking place during Fife Business Week and the British Business Bank's Business Finance Week, join Business Gateway's group of expert panellists as they explore some of the options available in more detail and explain why it’s essential to have a good business plan in place in order to secure finance.

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