Welcome to Farming With My Team. Leadership can often be misunderstood due to its complex nature. Learn what being a leader means and how you can practice leadership as an on-farm leader. This program is delivered over 6 x 2 hour live online workshops and will explore fundamental perspectives of leadership; leading self, leading a team and leadership in practice. Each session of the program builds on the previous one and explores different leadership capabilities.
Throughout the program, you will be asked to actively participate in online group discussions and reflect on what we are learning and how you are planning to apply this learning back on the farm.
At the conclusion of the on-farm capability development activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe the perceptions and concepts of ‘leadership’ and how leadership relates to staff satisfaction, engagement in personal and farm business goal achievement and retention

• Articulate the impact and importance of team values, and how these relate to creating an effective team culture on-farm

• Describe the roles of ‘coaching’ and ‘mentoring’ in on-farm leadership and the importance they play in professional development

• Identify and differentiate between personality types, with a focus on understanding individual preferences, perspectives and differences for enhanced team collaboration

• Communicate calmly, clearly and effectively with emotional awareness for conflict management

• Communicate clearly and effectively for performance focused feedback and career goal attainment for farm business success

This program has been developed as a part of The Dairy Progression Framework project. This project is funded by the NSW Dairy Industry Fund (NSW Department of Primary Industries), in conjunction with Dairy NSW, Murray Dairy, Sub Tropical Dairy and Dairy Australia.