Economic Gardening, recover faster from adversity.
Could Economic Gardening be your best option?
Economic Gardening is an alternative to traditional strategies for revitalising businesses and their communities. Explore how you can benefit from being on the ‘edge of chaos’, where conditions and circumstances overlap and enable the creation of unique products or services.
Sometimes, some entrepreneurs are natural at spotting opportunities and gravitating toward a more optimistic outlook. It might be as simple as being in the right place at the right time with the right systems, tools and processes.
Fortunately, economic gardening programs offer reliable methodologies for finding solutions to help our regional, rural, and remote communities survive and thrive.
Economic Gardening Programs can be customised to address particular situations and to meet the community, business and personal objectives. Program design can achieve many goals and outcomes for such things as:
- Creating and supporting new business start-ups.
- New jobs for the future.
- Growing businesses and non-profit organisations that already exist.
- Services are delivered to the businesses and the community.
- Make strategic improvements to a town or village.
- Issues resulting from adversity.
- Redesigning community ecosystems and new operating models and frameworks.
You can hone in on critical issues by completing Business or community Health Checks with the participants.
Economic Gardening programs solve multiple problems.
What problems do they have that you are not solving? What don’t customers like about how you deliver a service or product? You must fully understand customers, post the COVID-19 pandemic, and where you are missing opportunities to maintain your customer base. Part of an Economic Gardening program should be to ask your customers for feedback on your current products and services.
As more organisations offer remote or hybrid work to their employees, there has never been a more critical time to get performance management right. Without a tried-and-tested protocol for working remotely, challenges can arise.
Economic Gardening helps to reconnect people.
People can feel disconnected. Managers can lack visibility, and the day-to-day feedback you may enjoy when you work next to each other can disappear if you’re in separate locations.
Some projects may be on hold, especially with all the work-related news clamouring for our attention. Now is the right time to think about performance management: how you can simplify it, how we can make it more useful, and how to get it working for everyone.
The inquiry needs to go much more deeply than traditional surveys. It would help if you discovered insights into what is missing, what will work well in an uncertain future, and what will enable customers to recover faster. You help them, and they will help you in return.
Once you find the opportunities, you must take advantage of them. This might include modifying existing services or products, creating new ones, or changing the way you deliver them.
The strategic approach is to ensure that you are working within your capabilities. Align your resources so that they will create maximum value for your current and future customer base. Economic Gardening provides many great ideas to support you. Grow your business ecosystem and take advantage of an expanding market post-COVID-19 pandemic.
When you have significant setbacks, perhaps it’s time to investigate the possibilities of an Economic Gardening Program for your community. Please get in touch with us for details: https://faqsupport.com.au/contact
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“Economic Gardening is an entrepreneurial alternative to traditional economic development strategies”. Peter Sergeant
“It is critical to tailor strategies and interventions to the specific context of each regional town and village, considering its unique businesses, vulnerabilities, strengths, and resources”. Peter Sergeant