Format | 1 day | 2.5 days | 3 days | 7 days | 7 days |
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PEOPLE | | | | | |
How to strengthen relationships and have all members on the same page | - | - | | | |
Principles and secrets to more effective self and time management | - | - | | | |
Define your business and lifestyle goals and direction along with simple, effective methods of ensuring you achieve them | - | - | | | |
Improve management effectiveness - who makes what decisions and how employees can be motivated to help you achieve your goals. | - | - | - | | |
How to be 100% effective and 100% efficient | - | - | | | |
Understand how much time to spend "working on the business", how much time should be spent "working in the business" | - | - | | | |
Understand how to manage resistance to change | - | - | - | | |
Learn what a paradigm is and how to challenge the current paradigms holding you back. | - | - | | | |
Learn how to deal with conflict | - | - | - | | |
MONEY | | | | | |
Discover the '3 Secrets of Profit' that apply to all businesses | - | - | | | |
Apply the three R's of credit to your business and assess the value of your investments. | - | - | - | | |
Learn the simple techniques of cash flow planning that allow you to stay in control. | - | - | - | | |
Make management accounting your focus and lift the veil of confusion that sometimes surrounds meaningless taxation accounting | - | - | | | |
Learn how to use balance sheets, stockflows, trading accounts, gross margins and profit and loss accounts to generate a meaningful analysis of your business. | - | - | | | |
Discover how to benchmark your business against industry standards | - | - | | | |
LAND | | | | | |
Ecology and Soil Health | | | | | |
Understand basic ecology and how it relates to your production systems | | | | | |
Practical knowledge about fencing, property layout and design for optimum ecological outcomes and business efficiency | - | | | | |
Understand how to adapt to seasonal and climatic variability | - | | | | |
Rate your landscape on the Brittleness Scale and know how to use this information in decision making | | | | | |
Fully grasp the interconnectedness between the management decisions you make and the main ecological indicators on your property | | | | | |
How to build soil organic carbon | | | | | |
Understand the connection between diverse soil microbiology and productivity | | | | | |
Know how to reduce reliance on external energy sources | | | | | |
Pastures | | | | | |
How grass grows, the quality/quantity/root system relationships and how to influence them | | | | | |
Know and understand how to use the Six Principles of Regenerative Grazing | | | | | |
Know how to create and use a meaningful feed budget | - | | | | |
Understand how to calculate pasture rest period and graze period | - | | | | |
Have the skills to accurately matching stocking rate to carrying capacity. | - | | | | |
Know what grazing systems are available, their pro's and con's and what to use when | - | | | | |
Plan, monitor and manage your grazing system with confidence | - | | | | |
How to actively use a grazing chart as a whole of business management tool | - | | | | |
Drought | | | | | |
Learn the 11 essential drought management principles to increase resilience through the three stages of drought | - | | - | | |
Water | | | | | |
How to calculate your Water Use Efficiency in a grazing business | - | | | | |
What you can do to grow more grass from less rainfall | | | | | |
Learn how to plan water infrastructure and look at the practical implications of adding water points | - | | | | |
Learn simple tricks to increase water quality for easy production gains | - | | | | |
LIVESTOCK | | | | | |
General Livestock | | | | | |
How to effectively manage livestock for greatest profitability and production | - | | | | |
Learn how to use stock density to your advantage (production and money) | - | | | | |
Reproduction | | | | | |
Bull/ram selection and the importance of fertility testing bulls | - | - | | | |
Breeder management for optimal efficiency | - | - | | | |
9 principles for improved reproduction and strategies to implement | - | - | | | |
Learn how to plan your timing of mating around your key date | - | - | | | |
Nutrition | | | | | |
Basic ruminant nutrition including where nutrition comes from and how the rumen functions | - | - | | | |
Nutrients - learn about the most important nutrientÉ energy and unravel the degradable/non-degradable protein story | - | - | | | |
Nutrients - what are the mineral and vitamin requirements of your animals? | - | - | | | |
Planning supplementation programs including who, what, when and how to supplement | - | - | | | |
Know the difference between supplementation and substitution feeding | - | - | | | |
FARMING | | | | | |
Learn how to work with nature rather than against it | - | - | - | | |
Learn to assess risk and reward in farming decisions | - | - | - | | - |
Learn the 7 principles of regenerative farming | - | - | - | | - |
Learn how to transition into and plan for regenerative farming practices | - | - | - | | - |
Learn how to reduce inputs | - | - | - | | - |