A small, consistent group
Meet with up to 11 other business builders who get to know your goals, challenges and progress over time.
Business Ready · Business Skills Circles
Build your business
with a circle in your corner.
Make steady progress on your business with a small group of local business builders, practical weekly sessions and a Learning Coach beside you.
Each circle is a working session. You learn a useful skill, apply it to your own business and return with real questions, progress and next steps—not just notes to file away.
12 business builders maxWeekly 2-hour circleFour practical cycles
Delivered by Learnivation · RTO 45570 · Places and locations depend on upcoming intakes.
The strength of a circle
Learn it. Put it to work. Keep moving.
Business Skills Circles bring practical business learning and peer connection into one steady rhythm, so your own business becomes the place you practise.
Useful skills, each week
Work on topics such as pricing, marketing, money and systems, with a Learning Coach guiding the session.
Apply it to your business
Turn each session into a practical action for your own venture, then bring back what happened and what you learned.
Connections that continue
Build relationships, share local knowledge and create opportunities for introductions and collaboration over time.
Bring the business you have—or the idea you’re shaping
Designed for real business life
You don’t need to have everything figured out. Bring your questions, your work in progress and a willingness to take the next step.
You’re exploring an idea
Test what you want to offer, who it serves and what running a business could mean for your time and priorities.
You’re already trading
Strengthen the foundations—pricing, planning, customer experience and the systems that make day-to-day work easier.
Your work has a purpose
Build practical business and operational capability around creative, community-minded or impact-focused work.
One year · four ten-week cycles
A clear rhythm for building your business
The circle gives you a year to work through your business in stages, make decisions and build momentum at a practical pace.
Cycle 1 · Recognise
Know yourself. Know your idea.
Clarify your strengths, purpose, business idea and readiness for the next step.
Cycle 2 · Build
Shape the model and plan.
Make choices about your offer, customers, pricing and how the business will work.
Cycle 3 · Deliver
Serve customers with structure.
Work through delivery, compliance, business connections and the systems behind the service.
Cycle 4 · Grow
Build visibility and momentum.
Review what’s working, strengthen your next actions and share your business story.
Your plan stays active between sessions
Use the Business Map app to build your plan week by week, record actions and stay accountable. The year concludes with a Pitch & Showcase.
Support that stays connected to your work
A coach, a plan and people who keep showing up.
The circle is more than a weekly conversation. It gives you a place to work through decisions, ask questions and keep your business actions moving.
1
Learn with a coach
A Business Learning Coach guides practical sessions and helps connect the learning to your business.
2
Work on your own venture
Use the topics, tools and conversations to make progress on real business tasks between sessions.
3
Share progress with peers
Get perspective from people who are also building, testing and running businesses.
Learning with a recognised pathway
Build capability first. Recognition follows performance.
Your work through Business Ready may help build evidence toward a nationally recognised qualification, depending on the evidence you produce and assessment outcomes.
BSB30220 Certificate III in Entrepreneurship and New Business
The circle is a practical learning environment. A qualification is not automatic through attendance: it can be awarded only when the relevant competence is demonstrated and confirmed through assessment by Learnivation (RTO 45570).
Business Ready is the program. Business Skills Circles are one way it is delivered.
Interested but not sure where to start? Business Ready 101 is a free introductory workshop to explore your idea and next step.
Assessment and qualification availability depend on the participant’s circumstances and the current training and assessment requirements.
A simple first step
Is a circle the right fit for you?
Tell us a little about your business or idea. We can discuss the format, likely location and upcoming intake before you decide.
A circle may suit you if…
You want regular structure, practical learning, peer connection and time to work on your business alongside other responsibilities.
You may want to start with Business Ready 101 if…
You’re still testing an idea or want a no-cost first session to understand what running a business involves.
Business Ready · Business Skills Circles
Your business is the work. The circle helps you keep moving.
Find out whether an upcoming circle suits your business, your goals and the way you want to learn.
Learnivation Pty Ltd · RTO 45570 · Based on the Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie; service Australia-wide.