This two day course comprises full two full day interactive workshops designed to give you practical agri business planning skills you can implement directly in your enterprise. The workshop; allows you the opportunity to interact with other like minded enterprenuers in a safe
Participants will lean on rapid development of a business strategy and business plan
- Identifies what your business is trying to solve in the market place.
- Highlights the opportunities available in the market place in relation to your business
- Gives a clear set of priorities to focus on to ensure sustainability and profitability based on risks assessment.
- Practical methodology on how to develop an effective marketing plan for your enterprise
- Portfolio of balanced indicators(leading and lagging, financial and non-financial)
- Part of management system focused on taking action through a comprehensive management plan.
- Identifies key measurement points, things that make the biggest impact on the business result and that the team can exert greatest influence on.
- How to turn measurement points into working practical metrics with targets and owners
At the end of the seminar participants will
- Have practical methods you can take back to your business
- Be equipped to run workshops with your business to develop business plans and design strategic reporting
- Have learnt to use portfolio tools and techniques incluing; SWOT and PESTLE analysis, strategic prioritization, cause and effect modelling, performance measure design, running a performance management system
Learning objectives
- To understand how to work with your business team to develop and deliver an agribusiness strategy and plan
- To understand your role in setting strategy and how strategy underpins just about everything you do
- To understand the practical tools and techniques that are available to help you, and to get practical hands on experience of using them in a safe environment.
Who should attend
The course targets youth entrepreneurs who are in the (EAC community) and (horn of Africa) countries. You are likely to be
- The business owner of the enterprise
- The financial controller of the enterprise
- Able to provide financial advice and decision support to the business team
TOPICS
DAY 1: – Building business plans for the 21st century
- SWOT analysis
- PESTLE analysis
- Strategic direction for business
- Financial analysis to support strategy
- Moving from strategy to business plan
- Communicating the business plan
DAY 2: – Keeping the business on track to achieve the plan.
- Introduction to the score board
- Principles of effective measurement
- Cause and effect modelling
- Developing a long list of business drivers
- Identifying of short list of drivers that are most important to delivering the strategy
- Turning business drivers into practical measures
- Setting targets
- Visualizing performance
- Developing the performance management framework
Teaching method
- Group live instruction and illustrative examples
- Practical workshop exercises
- All participants will receive a comprehensive binder containing copies of the presentation slides, handouts and other course materials.
Instructors
The instructor of the course will be drone from a successful agribusiness practitioner with financial and management skills within our database.
Cost