Events
Transform Your Thinking
- 27 Aug 2025
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Session 2 of 6. Wellbeing Wednesdays are designed to take care of one of your business's greatest assets – YOU. Learn practical ways to perform at your best, handle stress more effectively, and enjoy your work and life more fully.
Generative AI for Business: Turning Curiosity into Competitive Edge
- 9 Sep 2025
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Te Pukenga Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Please register on our waitlist for September or see below and register for October session. Through practical, hands-on learning, you'll explore how generative AI can streamline operations, enhance productivity, improve decision-making, and reduce costs. By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped with the tools and insights to start using AI where it matters most.
Managing Pressure
- 10 Sep 2025
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Session 3 of 6. Wellbeing Wednesdays are designed to take care of one of your business's greatest assets – YOU. Learn practical ways to perform at your best, handle stress more effectively, and enjoy your work and life more fully.
Westpac Smarts: Tim King, Mayor of Tasman
- 10 Sep 2025
- 10:45 am - 12:00 pm
- Tides Hotel, 66 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Join us for this Westpac Smarts session with Mayor Tim King
Climate Leadership Development Programme
- 12 Sep 2025 (9:00 am) to 6 Mar 2026 (12:00 pm)
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Te Pukenga Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Designed for organisational leaders who recognise the importance of climate change and want to strengthen their ability to lead strategic, climate-aligned change.
Health & Safety Reps - Stage 1
- 16 Sep 2025
- 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7020, New Zealand
An introduction to the role of a Health and Safety Representative under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and its regulations. Stage 1 provides Representatives with the foundation knowledge to enable them to exercise their duties and responsibilities as workplace Health and Safety Representatives.
Achieving Cashflow Freedom
- 17 Sep 2025
- 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Go Accounting will help you discover where the cash goes in your business and teach you how to better manage your cash to achieve cashflow freedom.
Knowledge @ Noon - Pitt & Moore
- 17 Sep 2025
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Mapua Community Hall, 72 Aranui Road, Mapua, 7005, New Zealand
Join us for this lunchtime session, hosted by Pitt & Moore. Whether you are setting up, scaling up, or simply want to make sure you have got your legal ducks in a row, this session is for you.
Developing Nelson Tasman - Industry Briefing
- 17 Sep 2025
- 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy St, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Join us and the Nelson Regional Development Agency to hear first-hand about the major projects shaping our region’s future. This forum delivers information and updates for those in construction, trades, development, and other regional stakeholders.
Findex BA5 - Kernohan Engineering
- 23 Sep 2025
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Kernohan Engineering, 121 Vickerman Street, Port Nelson, Nelson, 7010
Join us for our next Business After 5, proudly hosted by Kernohan Engineering at their brand-new premises.
Take Back Your Time
- 24 Sep 2025
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Session 4 of 6. Wellbeing Wednesdays are designed to take care of one of your business's greatest assets – YOU. Learn practical ways to perform at your best, handle stress more effectively, and enjoy your work and life more fully.
Social Media Masterclass with Bare Kiwi
- 7 Oct 2025
- 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
- NMIT / Mahitahi Colab, Lecture Theatre A211, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010
Join us for an unmissable opportunity for businesses of all shapes and sizes to learn directly from someone who knows how to create content that truly connects.
Retail Crime: Have your say
- 7 Oct 2025
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Mahithi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, New Zealand
The Ministerial Advisory Group for Victims of Retail Crime have been consulting with business communities around the country, and now it is Nelson Tasman's turn. Your feedback will help shape the government’s response to the escalation of retail crime in our communities.
Emotional Awareness and Resilience
- 8 Oct 2025
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Session 5 of 6. Wellbeing Wednesdays are designed to take care of one of your business's greatest assets – YOU. Learn practical ways to perform at your best, handle stress more effectively, and enjoy your work and life more fully.
Business Blueprint – Strategic Planning Workshop
- 9 Oct 2025
- 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
- Go Accounting, 6 Cube Court, Richmond, 7020, New Zealand
Would you like to: Increase the level of growth, profitability and cashflow in your business? Have support to unlock your business potential? Have a clear outline of what you need to do to unlock this potential? Have a document against which to measure your progress? If yes, this course is for you.
Mental Health First Aid Aotearoa New Zealand
- 9 Oct 2025
- 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Workplace Mental Health First Aid is the internationally accredited mental health literacy and awareness raising programme. It focuses on building the knowledge and capability of individuals to provide first response support for their workmates experiencing mental health challenges.
Work Happy - the Science and the Advantage
- 22 Oct 2025
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
- Mahitahi Colab, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Session 6 of 6. Wellbeing Wednesdays are designed to take care of one of your business's greatest assets – YOU. Learn practical ways to perform at your best, handle stress more effectively, and enjoy your work and life more fully.
Generative AI for Business: Turning Curiosity into Competitive Edge
- 23 Oct 2025
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Mahitahi Colab Tasman, 18 Stafford Drive, Mapua, Nelson, 7005, New Zealand
Please register on our waitlist or email trina@commerce.org.nz, November session date tbc. Through practical, hands-on learning, you'll explore how generative AI can streamline operations, enhance productivity, improve decision-making, and reduce costs. By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped with the tools and insights to start using AI where it matters most.
Sales Strategy & Engagement Essentials
- 29 Oct 2025
- 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Te Pukenga Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
We will cover, understanding the psychological needs of the buying client, and what is needed to meet those needs within the sales interaction process. Sales training expertise, anchored in the ‘real world’, & cover specific skills and techniques that will improve your sales processes and assist revenue growth.
NBS Strong Community Symposium
- 31 Oct 2025
- 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
- Māpua Community Hall, 72 Aranui Road, Māpua, 7005
The 2025 NBS Strong Community Symposium is a gathering designed to help the not-for-profit and for-purpose sectors create IMPACT through Amplifying Purpose & Minimising Footprint. The event aims to equip organisations with the tools, thinking, and connections needed to maximise impact and build long-term resilience.
Project Management 101
- 5 Nov 2025 (9:00 am) to 6 Nov 2025 (4:30 pm)
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Te Pukenga Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
This two-day instructor led course has been designed to introduce the concepts of Project Management to help ensure a common understanding – regardless of whether you are a project manager, sponsor, team member or coordinator. The course covers the unique language, principles and tools of project management and builds a case for their application back at the workplace.
Business Growth - Planning and Strategy Course
- 27 Nov 2025
- 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
- Mahitahi Colab Tasman, 18 Stafford Drive, Mapua, 7005, New Zealand
This course is designed to help Business Owners and Managers improve their Business Planning Capability within the business. You'll learn how to set goals, define a business's vision and mission, develop strategic plans, identify competitive advantages, and create measurable targets and operational strategies for your business.
Leading Sales Teams
- 11 Feb 2026
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Mahitahi Colab, NMIT Campus A Block, 322 Hardy Street, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand
Sales managers and SME business owners who lead sales teams and want to improve team performance and results. This course teaches you how to lead, motivate, and manage your sales team effectively. You'll gain practical tools to plan, implement, and track sales strategies that deliver results.