Emerging Leadership
Business & Management
A course by
Dairy Training
Implement a range of skills to effectively lead team members and improve team performance in the food, fibre, and farming industries.
Blended study
This is a mix of online learning & face-to-face sessions
Available in 5 locations
It will take a total of 4 weeks
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Strengthen personal wellbeing and resilience
Develop self-management techniques to enhance personal wellbeing and resilience, supporting consistent leadership performance.
Grow self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Increase understanding of one's own personality, cultural competence, and unconscious bias to improve leadership effectiveness.
Develop and apply communication skills
Use a variety of communication methods to interact constructively with team members and cultivate trust.
What You're Signing Up For
The Emerging Leadership course provides emerging and new managers in the primary sector with practical skills to lead teams, communicate effectively, develop emotional intelligence, and build a positive, culturally competent team culture. It combines online and in-person instruction, including principles of whanaungatanga and te ao Māori, for 2ICs, herd managers, and new managers.
Course Content
- Self-management skills for personal wellbeing and resilience
- Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Understanding personalities, cultural competence, and unconscious bias
- Effective communication skills
- Whanaungatanga (relationship building) and te ao Māori principles
- Building positive team culture
- On-job support from workplace senior
What you need to know first
Must be a New Zealand citizen or hold a NZ resident visa
Support from on-farm workplace senior required to complete course tasks
Ability to bring a laptop or device for course days
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Agriculture
Farming
Primary Industries
Future employment opportunities might be
2IC (Second-in-Charge) in farm and primary industry operations
Herd Manager
Entry-level or emerging management positions in food, fibre, and farming sectors
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