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Business Ready Together (BRT) is our award-winning micro-learning online program developed over 12 months with bushfire-impacted business owners back in 2021. Download the flyer.
We focus on building knowledge and capability in 5-minute intervals.
Formerly called Business Community Resilience Toolkits, it’s designed to help self-employed, micro and small-to-medium businesses (from a common location or industry) get resilient and ready, together.
All programs are free for businesses, social enterprises and not-for-profits. That’s because we work with councils, governments, industry associations and corporate funding partners to reduce the disaster risks that matter most.
Business Ready Together programs are available for place-based, member, customer or supplier business communities. They can be funded by government, councils, industry bodies, corporates or business groups – directly or via grants.
Led by nudge-theory, our programs help business communities focus on:
- Business viability and sustainability
- Risk understanding and disaster preparedness
- Strengthening social capital ties and connections
Micro-learning has shown me small steps I can take to get my business ready for all types of disasters.
Eric Wolske
Business Owner at Eden Antiques
Choose a delivery option that’s right for your people
Business Ready Together programs are agile in delivery with ‘Standard’ or ‘Bespoke’ options available.
We work with you to select the number and theme of modules to include, embed relevant local links and recommend engagement across the 12 month access to support you building long-term connection in your business community. Below outlines a 10-module program.
Standard 10 – From $12,000 + GST
- Aligned to location or industry sector
- 10 modules with tailored links
- Daily, weekly or all in one release
- Existing video case studies
- Shared data from 10 x 5 quiz questions
- Conversation calendar for local engagement
- Program open for 12 months
Bespoke 10 – From $15,000 + GST
- Aligned to location or industry sector
- 10 modules with tailored links and bespoke co-design content
- Daily, weekly or all in one release
- Existing video case studies
- Shared data from 10 x 5 quiz questions
- Conversation calendar for local engagement
- Findings report
Optional Extras:
- Discovery surveys for module selection from $2,500 + GST
- Tailored community outreach from $1,500 + GST
- Local launch event from $2,000 + GST
- New module development from $2,000 + GST
- Onsite or online workshops from $1,500 + GST
- PR & promotional materials from $1,500 + GST
- Additional themed module packages such as insurance, wellbeing.
BUSINESS READY TOGETHER
Current & past
BRT programs
Benefiting every operating business within a community
Business Ready Together programs are a custom-built e-learning solution co-designed in 2021 with black summer bushfire impacted communities.
They include micro-learning modules that focus on 5-minute learning intervals. Modules are released daily, weekly or all at once from our growing library of 100+ themes and include lived experience videos, short quizzes and simple worksheets.
Every module includes 5 quiz questions providing real-time vulnerability data on the local businesses and community organisations.
Benefits include:
- Build vital knowledge and capabilities in preparedness and resilience
- Collect real-time vulnerability data for future investment
- Reduce business resilience gaps such as understanding warnings
- Strength business community connections and networks
- Activate an all-hazards approach to local business culture
- Learn from lived experience.
The learnings and actions taken from doing the Resilient Ready program post bushfires, helped me reopen my business quickly when the 2022 floods hit.
Julia Foyster
Business Owner at Tweed Real Food
Resilient Ready micro-learning programs give you a helpful resource full of useful information – it’s something that really fills a gap for businesses with resilience tips and knowledge that are not otherwise available.
Kaitlin McKivat
Business Owner at Kaitlin’s Administration
Our Resilient Ready program experience was good because it gave us material to get us thinking, and easy actions to get us started on building a resilient business.
Bruce Spinks & Joo-Yee Lieu
Business Owners at Woollundry Grove Olives
A great, simple prompt to review what plans, policies and procedures you do or don't have in place and to make sure they are REAL and relevant.
Kerryn Williams
Business Manager at Armidale Uralla Meals on Wheels
Frequently asked questions
Formerly called Business Community Resilience Toolkits, it’s designed to help self-employed, micro and small-to-medium businesses (from a common location or industry) get resilient and ready, together.
Download program flyer.
Led by nudge-theory, our programs help business communities focus on:
- Business viability and sustainability
- Risk understanding and disaster preparedness
- Strengthening social capital ties and connections
We work with you to select the right module themes to get your local businesses and community organisations resilient and ready for the future.
Step 1 — Select your program format
Every Business Ready Together program is different and developed in conjunction with funders. We start with the outcome you aim to achieve, then work with you to select the best number of modules including their themes.
- Standard programs include 10 modules each with 5 quiz questions, local links (where relevant), self-paced worksheets and a case study from past programs, a business community conversation calendar to support module access over 12 months.
- Optional extras include discovery surveys to support module selection, online check-ins to drive connections, in-community sessions (not usual workshops), filming local case studies for each module and follow up module packages including themes such as insurance and wellbeing.
The number of modules is purposely agile, programs can also be run as place-based (LGA, regional, state-wide or national), for members, customers and/or suppliers.
Step 2 — Localised content
We integrate links to locally relevant information or organisations such as Rural Financial Counsellors for our Financial Hardship module.
- Standard programs will include localised links relevant to modules.
- Bespoke programs will co-design module content specific to your location, industry or program theme.
We offer options to film local case studies to embed experiences of your local business people.
Step 3 — Module Release
We release all modules as guided by your tailored program. All participating businesses or community organisations across your group receive and complete the Business Ready Together program together.
Modules can be accessed for 12 months’ following program start date, participants can revisit modules at any time to review content, watch videos, download worksheets and retake quiz questions.
Step 4 — Workshops and Data
We offer optional extra online and/or in-person sessions delivered alongside your Bespoke or Standard option. Over the 12 month program access period, we provide quarterly data updates to share de-identified responses to help you identify, and thereafter reduce and/or seek funding to reduce, local risks and vulnerabilities across the business community.
All programs are free for businesses, social enterprises and not-for-profits. That’s because we work with councils, governments, industry associations and corporate funding partners to reduce the disaster risks that matter most.
Business Ready Together programs are available for place-based, member, customer or supplier business communities. They can be funded by government, councils, industry bodies, corporates or business groups – directly or via grants.
Connect with us to fund a program.
Offering a Business Ready Together program brings many benefits to funders:
- Build vital knowledge and capabilities in preparedness and resilience
- Collect real-time vulnerability data for future investment
- Reduce business resilience gaps such as understanding warnings
- Strength business community connections and networks
- Activate an all-hazards approach to local business culture
- Learn from lived experience.
For participants, the Business Ready Together program can:
- Help keep them in business
- Give them a better understanding of their business and community
- Reduce risks, including financial ones
- Help them plan for disasters
- Allow them to learn new skills and gain knowledge
- Build networks and connections
- Make small changes that will have a big impact.
If you take the time to help your local business community get in the right position in the good times, they’ll be better prepared for the hard times ahead.
Tell us more
Connect with us to discuss how Business Ready Together can help your community.
