Business Connections
Lunch with Tony Abbott | 12 February, Brisbane
CCIQ invites you to a luncheon event on Friday 12 February 2010 with guest speaker Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Tony Abbott MP, to facilitate and promote discussion on the important issues facing the Australia economy.
Mr Abbott will share his views on topics including Coalition stability, climate change policy, tax reform, productivity, interest rates and the performance of the Australian economy more broadly.
Tables are selling fast so register online now or for further information contact CCIQ on 1300 138 470.
Business Skills
Introducing Your Business Success
Have you ever wondered why some businesses limp along from day to day, while others grow into substantial and extraordinary profitable organisations?
Based on the highly popular Channel 9 television show of the same name, the Your Business Success program provides the catalyst business owners and managers need to generate solutions and create success for your business or to lay the foundations when starting a business.
The program provides step by step instructions on how to make your business work with or without your daily involvement.
To find out more about how Your Business Success could help your business, visit www.cciq.com.au/YourBusinessSuccess and complete the form or alternatively contact us on 1300 138 470.
Calling all stakeholders for new youth initiative
Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland (CCIQ) has today announced they have been chosen to deliver the School Business Community Partnership Brokers Program, designed to improve education and transition outcomes for young people in Queensland in six regions across the state.
The Partnership Brokers program is an initiative of the Australian Government to foster a strategic, whole of community approach to developing strategies to improve education and opportunities for young people and to address current and future skills needs.
The program aims to establish sustainable partnerships between education and training providers, business and industry, parents and family groups and community groups.
CCIQ is now calling on key stakeholder groups across Queensland to nominate to provide input into the program. To register your interest, or for further information, visit the YouthInvest website at www.cciq.com.au/YouthInvest.
Do you want $4,000 to add to your training budget?
Did you know thousands of Queensland employees are eligible for up to $4,000 to complete nationally recognised training that will benefit your business?
Your business can obtain:
 $4,000 in Australian Government funding and in some cases more
enhanced skills for your employee
expanded skill sets and increased productivity from your staff
Your employee can gain:
The benefit of a nationally recognised qualification
To find out if your employees may be eligible simply complete Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland's 30 second training funding assessment and receive an instant response.
Complete your funding assessment now!
Business Representation
Queensland continues to fall behind in economic recovery
Commonwealth Bank Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland Pulse Survey of Business Conditions for the December Quarter 2009
Queensland businesses entered 2010 with much greater confidence than 12 months ago but remained behind the eight ball compared to businesses located elsewhere in Australia, according to the latest Commonwealth Bank CCIQ Pulse Survey of Business Conditions.
Queensland's most comprehensive survey of business conditions showed 47 per cent of Queensland businesses expect the Queensland economy to strengthen over the next 12 months compared to just 8 per cent in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
Business confidence was significantly greater for the national economy with 61 per cent of Queensland businesses confident that the national economic conditions would improve over the next 12 months. > Read more
Business Compliance
Modern Awards have arrived - are you prepared?
On 1 January the Federal Government's new modern awards commenced - are you prepared for this fundamental change to the IR system? If employers are not fully compliant, as a matter of urgency you should:
- Ascertain which modern award(s) will apply to your business.
- Review the terms of the applicable modern awards and how they apply to your business
- If there are certain terms of a modern award that do not suit your business, consider whether an individual flexibility agreement with an employee could be tailored to meet the needs of the business.
> Read the complete article and be prepared for Modern Awards.
Business Sustainability
Climate debate puts the focus on business eco-efficiency
This week's announcement of the Federal Opposition's climate change policy has placed renewed focus on eco-efficiency and environmental performance for businesses of all shapes and sizes. All Queensland business can benefit from improved eco-efficiency practices.
In an effort to help businesses to know where to start with eco-efficiency, the CCIQ team has developed a simple questionnaire. Those who complete the questionnaire will receive specific eco-efficiency feedback from CCIQ's Business Sustainability Team.
Increasing environmental compliance requirements, increasing consumer and supply chain pressures for green goods and services and ballooning utility and raw material prices are proving to be motivating many businesses to investigate their eco-efficiency.
With the right support, your business can lower costs and increase profitability, reduce exposure to increasing environmental compliance pressures, improve staff retention and consumer relations and secure or increase market share.
Also this month
Business Globally
Attention exporters: ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement commences!
Under the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA), which came into force on 1 January 2010, a process has been established through which exporters must apply for and obtain a special purpose Certificate of Origin (CO) that officially attests to the eligibility for preferential treatment of the product they intend to export to another AANZFTA market.
In Queensland, exporters who have determined that their goods are eligible for preferential treatment may apply to CCIQ for an AANZFTA Certificate of Origin (CO) by first completing and returning the AANZFTA Exporter Registration Form CO4A. > Read more
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