'Blue Mountains Business Resilience' Roadmap
HUBS / Blue Mountains Hub
Co-designing a local business community solution
The Blue Mountains region has been hard hit by bushfires, severe storms, floods, landslides, and the impact of Covid-19 in the past three years. These overlapping disasters have left the local business community struggling.
To build resilience and capabilities across the Blue Mountains region, Resilient Ready (formerly corporate2community) has been funded to create a FREE solution for the local business community.
This ‘Blue Mountains Business Resilience’ Roadmap will enable every business person across the 27 towns to do business better – in good times and bad.
Funded by BLERF as a collaboration with BusinessBM, this project is being delivered by locally engaged Blue Mountains Resilient Ready experts.
Members of the Blue Mountains business community can access their Roadmap for free until 31st December 2023.
Take the Roadmap Survey Log in to your dashboardYour Roadmap in 3 steps
Step 1: Scorecard
Begin by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your business by taking a survey of 16 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, and review your scorecard.
Step 2: Roadmap
Move through your tailored Roadmap of up to 16 five-minute learning modules. These help you plan and embed resilience into your business everyday.
Step 3: Certificate
Earn your Roadmap certificate by completing each learning module, and see your business thrive.
Step 1: Scorecard
Begin by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your business by taking a survey of 16 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, and review your scorecard.
Step 2: Roadmap
Move through your tailored Roadmap of up to 16 five-minute learning modules. These help you plan and embed resilience into your business everyday.
Step 3: Certificate
Earn your Roadmap certificate by completing each learning module, and see your business thrive.
A commitment to building local capabilities
Engaging with the community to co-design
Members of the Blue Mountains business community have been participating in Steering Group sessions to guide the direction of this project.
In addition, 9 discovery workshops were held in person across the Blue Mountains and online in June 2022. This important step enabled us to test the capability building tool concept and source lived experience local business people.
Findings informed this Roadmap theme to ensure each micro-learning module is relevant, tailored and beneficial to the entire Blue Mountains business community.
The Blue Mountains are full of wonderful opportunities to build a thriving business community.
Rebecca Lang
Blue Mountains Stakeholder Engagement Lead
at Resilient Ready
Designing a solution for every person in business
This ‘Blue Mountains Business Resilience’ Roadmap invites every business owner or operator from across the Blue Mountains region to participate.
Our Resilient Ready micro-learning approach supports every business person with any level of understanding to take small steps in:
- building resilience
- reducing risks, and
- strengthening community connections.
Disasters across the Blue Mountains are becoming more frequent, more impactful and compounding. There has never been a more important time to set you, your business and your community up to thrive.
Get your tailored Roadmap and start doing business better
Every participating business person to:
- Learn up to 16 new things about the benefits of understanding your business, knowing your risks, planning your response and building your networks
- Make up to 16 small steps in positive behaviour changes to improve how you do business in the good times, and get you ready for the bad.
With thanks to our project funders
This project to co-design a business resilience capability tool is funded by the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery (BLER) package co-funded by the Australian and NSW governments.
Collaborating with our partners
This project is a collaboration between Resilient Ready and BusinessBM, the Blue Mountains regional business network.
key delivery team
Rebecca Lang
Blue Mountains Stakeholder Engagement Lead
Rebecca Lang
Blue Mountains Stakeholder Engagement Lead
Rebecca is a communications expert working with Blue Mountains businesses to build resilience.
Anny Druett
Aboriginal Engagement Liaison
Anny Druett
Aboriginal Engagement Liaison
Anny is an engagement specialist working with us to connect Indigenous businesses in the Blue Mountains to the project.
Renae Hanvin
CEO + Founder
Renae Hanvin
CEO + Founder
Renae is the CEO + founder of Resilient Ready, driving Australian and global innovations.
Frequently asked questions
The Resilient Ready Blue Mountains Hub Project is an online solution that will enable every business person across the Blue Mountains to do business better – in the good times and the bad. The project has a focus on reducing disaster risks and limiting the impact associated with natural hazards on Australian communities and economies.
We know that people are the foundation for building resilience, and as such Resilient Ready Hubs focus on building people’s capabilities. This Blue Mountains Hub Project aims to:
- develop resilience-focused learning solutions with local business leaders, owners and operators upskilled to deliver programs within and outside the Blue Mountains
- build a sustainable economic stream for the local business community
This FREE project is open to every business owner, operator and employee operating within the Blue Mountains Local Government Area.
The ‘Blue Mountains Business Resilience’ Roadmap tool will be available until 31st December 2023 – restricted to businesses operating within the Blue Mountains LGA region.
Click here to see the ways you can be involved.
This project is funded by the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Package co-funded by the Australian and NSW governments.
This project is being delivered by certified social enterprise Resilient Ready (formerly corporate2community) in collaboration with BusinessBM.
This project development concludes in early 2023. The online tool is available to Blue Mountains based business people until 31st December 2023.
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