Developing an Agricultural business plan

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