Suitable Training Courses

List of suitable types of training courses

Skill Area

Types of training course

Business Skills

  • Effective business development
  • Ethics in business
  • Financial management
  • Business planning
  • Negotiation skills
  • Information Communications Technology (from basic to advanced, eg record keeping and management systems)
  • Set business objectives
  • Assess business performance
  • Improve business performance
  • Manage cash flows
  • Maintain accounts
  • Maintain profitability
  • Record keeping
  • Rural resource management
  • Business benchmarking

Marketing

  • Introduction to marketing
  • Branding your business
  • Understand your market place
  • Marketing and promotion
  • Develop a marketing plan
  • Website development
  • Customer care

People Management

  • Creating and managing teams
  • Motivating staff
  • Instructional techniques
  • Performance management
  • Target settings
  • Staff recruitment and development
  • Employment law
  • Personal development
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Confidence building
  • Leadership skills

Diversification Opportunities

  • Managing diversity
  • Managing the consequences of change
  • Farm diversification
  • Land, countryside and environmental management
  • Rural enterprise
  • Business development
  • Market research
  • Project management

Technical Skills

  • Chainsaw (for non-forestry workers)
  • Forklift
  • ATV's
  • Supply chain management
  • On-farm food production and processing
  • Technical training needed for diversification
  • Animal health and welfare
  • Hygiene
  • Conservation/environmental management
  • Traditional management techniques (eg dry stone walling, hedge laying, coppicing)
  • Organic farming techniques
  • Looking at new ways of working

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