Professional Development Framework

Topics in Agricultural Extension and Consultancy

This course focuses on extension and consultancy theory and its application in commercial farming and horticulture. The design, implementation and evaluation of extension and consultancy programmes; managing an agricultural consultancy business; codes of practice (ethics); current and emerging extension and consultancy issues. Case studies of local agricultural consultancies.

Graduate Certificate in Agribusiness Management

The Graduate Certificate in Agribusiness Management will help learners critically analyse strategic issues facing agricultural industries, develop and implement appropriate policies in the areas of operations and general management, understanding agribusiness economics, as well as identify future trends and potential issues within the industry.

Annual Cash Budgets and Monthly Cash Flows

This module will help you: know what annual cash budgets and monthly cashflows are, why they are important and what they tell you about your farm business.

Know how to use this information to inform on-farm decisions and improve the profitability of your farm business.

Business Planning

This module will help you:

- know what a farm business plan is

- understand the benefits of having a farm business plan

- know how to create a farm business plan.

Farm Business Succession Planning

This module will help you:

- know what a Farm Business Transition and Succession Plan is

- know the benefits of having a FBTS Plan

- know how to make a FBTS plan

Measuring Progress - KPIs and Benchmarking

This module will help you:

- What are KPIs and benchmarking and why use them

- What are the best KPIs to use

- How to benchmark against a KPI (including using online calculators).

Understanding your Farm Business Profitability

This module will help you:

- know what Profit & Loss statements and Balance sheets are

- know what they tell you about your financial situation and how to use the information to inform on-farm decisions and improve the profitability of your farm business.

Dairy Farm Systems Certification L1/2

Certificate in Dairy Farm Systems Level 1/2

Leadership Development Forum level 1

A wider understanding of the purpose of vision and strategy, and how this has the potential to drive strategic decisions within organisations.

Understanding common pitfalls where strategy fails to take hold and what can be done to rectify this.

Identifying key traits of effective leadership and how to develop leadership behaviours and skills to better influence and persuade others.

Leadership Development Forum Level 2

Identifying the heart of effective leadership and how to develop leadership behaviours and skills.

An assessment of their relative strengths and areas to develop, including a targeted action plan for their development.

Understanding the levers for high performance in teams.

Building their ability to think strategically so they can assist their organisation to maximise their future impact.

Understanding common pitfalls where strategy fails to take hold and what can be done to rectify this.

Value Chain Innovation Programme

The Value Chain Innovation Programme delivers a truly immersive experience, created to meet a growing need for strategically capable leaders in our food and fibre systems.

It is for those who are passionate about developing their leadership style, growing their networks, and contributing to their business and community.

Supply Chain Management

You’ll examine the issues related to moving goods from the source of supply, through the finished goods distribution channel and then to the final consumer.

Agribusiness Strategic Management

You’ll identify the major factors that impact on agribusiness management decisions and strategies you can use to manage the business. *Pre-requisite course of The Agribusiness Environment, MGMT-222 needed to take course.

Strategy Essentials

Develop your strategic substance, at board level, so that you can contribute meaningfully to your organisation's growth.

Leadership Essentials (ELEVATE Programme)

The essential leadership toolkit for building a leadership foundation.

Contract Negotiation Training

This Contract Negotiation training course teaches delegates how to successfully negotiate contracts, agreements, and disputes, whilst sustaining positive relations with the parties involved. Delegates will learn a wide range of efficient negotiating techniques and mechanisms, accompanied by an evaluation of negotiating methods.

Opportunity Analysis in Agricultural Systems

You’ll examine in-depth a case study to determine the concepts and analytical techniques that are applied to a new venture situation in rural business that you would find in an agriculture, horticulture or forestry system. *Pre-requisites either Analysis of Agricultural Systems, MGMT-202 or Horticultural Management Analysis, MGMT-216.

Rural Governance Essentials

Gain insights into how to harness the power of a board for your agribusiness with robust processes and good decision making.

Graduate Certificate in Business and Sustainability

Lincoln University University’s Graduate Certificate in Business and Sustainability prepares you work within businesses or externally as a consultant and assessor to assist in helping them to improve the sustainability of their practises. This includes guiding their reporting against financial, social and environmental measures (triple bottom line reporting) and how to design and implement strategies that improve their sustainability still further.

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Complex Systems Anaylsis

This ExpertTrack will equip you with systems analysis and design tools to help you gain a more nuanced understanding of complex systems and use this understanding in practice. The systems thinking approaches you’ll learn are also geared towards effective change, to empower you to design actionable interventions.

Farm Environment Planning - Land Use Capability Training Course

By the end of this course, you will have a clear understanding of the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) and its field assessment through mapping and how to interpret that information into Land Use Capability (LUC) units. The course is hands on with a lot of field work and will give you knowledge and confidence in using the NZLRI and LUC assessments for a range of uses, including catchment and farm scale planning.

Mastering Systems Thinking

Focuses on new ways of thinking and approaching situations that cross multiple discipline and skills boundaries

Analysis and Planning in Agricultural Systems

You’ll undertake an analysis of farm business, management and production systems and how to apply strategic management, as well as analysis for efficient, sustainable and profitable resource use. *Pre-requisites of either Analysis of Agricultural Systems, MGMT-202 or Horticultural Management Analysis, MGMT-216.

Primary Industry Systems

You’ll dive into the complexity of the agricultural, horticultural, forestry and food systems, focusing on the scientific, technological and socio-economic relationships.

Principles of Agricultural Systems

You’ll take a direct approach to the management of resources to analyse the physical and financial aspects of a whole farm system to achieve farming objectives.