Tocal College GROW Program | Professional Development for Women in Agricultural Industries

GROW – “Generating Regional Outstanding Women” is a professional development program for Women in agricultural industries who manage or would like to manage a business – a farm or otherwise.

This program will be managed and delivered by House Paddock Training and Consulting and administered by Tocal college. The project is being made possible with support of AgSkilledTM, Smart and Skilled training funding for grains, cotton, horticulture, viticulture and rice industries. It is aimed at business owners, managers and emerging managers, with a minimum of 5 years experience in business.

Aim

The program aims to develop personal and business risk management skills of women in rural industry to help them better manage themselves and their business. The topics chosen for the training has been aligned to the results of a CRDC Research project to understand the value and role of Women in the Cotton Industry and a skills needs analysis conducted by the AgSkilled Project. The three topics covered by the program are

•Personal development: communication and networking, organization, time management andleadership

•Staff management

•Work health and safety

Resources and methods of delivery

GROW online is delivered through Tocal College’s Canvas online learning platform. We aim to make the content engaging, bite sized and relevant to your life and business. The course is self-paced and fully delivered on line. There will be recorded material for you to watch (videos, webinars, interviews), some reading and lots of links for more info.

Participants will be provided with a host of industry resources as well as course notes throughout the duration of the course.

There will be a live webinar most weeks to discuss the content and hear from guest speakers. A schedule will be forwarded to participants. These will also be recorded and posted online

There is a chat forum to answer question and interact with other participants and trainers and technical support are available to help you along the way.

The program will run over a 6 month period.