Succession
offers a range of services for you to learn and practice of managing
holistically. Learning programmes are tailored to meet your
specific needs and may consist of a variety of training workshops with
individual or group
follow up. Training involves a mixture of individuals and
families
from a particular location and can be set up as on site learning for
farms, businesses, and organisations. Participants engage in
practical
hands on exercises that involve everyday experiences and value the
sharing
of knowledge. The training fee, learning materials, and follow up
will vary depending on the type of learning programme, location, and if
any local financial support.
Overviews
The Big Picture: These one to three hour
presentations
provide an outline of managing
holistically, what it involves and how it challenges current management
thinking. People can then make up their own minds about whether
to attend a course. In many cases this event is free.
Anyone can manage holistically, but to improve your chances of success
the following courses and services assist couples, families,
businesses, and organisations to put into practice what they learn.
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Description
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Discover
Decisions:
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This
workshop provides the basic training necessary for holistic managers
and families. Upon completing this three day introductory
workshop you will have learned all the basic skills to manage
holistically. Families, businesses, and organisations discover
and clarify purpose and direction, then learn how to become proactive
decision-makers to create the future they want. The full course
includes Wealth from Wild Oats
and
The Grass Class workshops. |
Wealth
from Wild Oats:
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This two or three
day
workshop introduces people to a unique way of annual planning that
considers human, financial, and biological concerns. People learn
to manage
both time and money, as both are often scarce resources in busy
lives and businesses. They identify blockages to progress, where
to invest in both life and business, and use unique tools that
get
to the root cause of issues to hasten progress towards their goal, as
well as acompletely new way of looking at accounts of financial
information to incite proactive behaviour to toward the desired
goal.
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The
Grass
Class:
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This two or
three day workshop provides the skills, knowledge and technology for
land managers
to get beyond feed budgeting. The planned grazing technique
allows managers to feed their animals and simultaneously build soil
health and paddock ecosystem function while accounting for markets,
labour, climate, landscape features, irrigation, and conservation as
part of a long term business and property development plan. The
workshop includes observing soil surface features that indicate soil
and animal health and pasture productivity.
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Sometimes people want an introduction rather than dive in
head first so the following half day workshops bring practical skills
to land
and business management. Each provides some unique insights into
managing holistically:
Rainmaker Workshops
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Description
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Scratching the
Surface:
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The habit of
monitoring
is essential to managing holistically. This half
day workshop enlightens land managers about monitoring techniques that
help them read the soil surface and understand how their decisions
influence land function. Also covered are the four ecosystem
processes that are the cornerstones upon which all human endeavour
relies on and the tools we use to influence these processes when
managing land.
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Grazed and Confused:
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This half day
workshop
reviews the principles of regenerative grazing
so that participants have a strong idea of why planned grazing is so
important. It explores the physiology of plant growth, the
movement of animals across the land and the roles they do to enhance
ecosystem function, as well as introducing land managers to a technique
that simplifies
the true complexity of grazing planning to accommodate seasonality,
markets, labour, pasture and animal performance, and property
development. |
Pennies from Heaven:
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Knowing the value of
something is more important than its cost. Prior
to any number crunching, any activity needs exploring to ensure it will
take you in the right direction. This half day workshop
introduces families, businesses, and organisations to four techniques
that will: challenge
financial activities and routines; focus your spending power; emphasize
quality of life; prioritise your expenses and time; explore the causes
of problems; target investment to strengthen the entire business; and
look beyond money to what really matters. |
Think Big:
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This half day
workshop
allows families, businesses, and organisations to discover the essence
of managing holistically. Participants are taken through the
holistic goal creation process. The focus of this workshop is two
fold; firstly, clarity of direction and purpose to ensure business and
lifestyle is balanced and complimentary; secondly, gaining an insight
of your role with your circle of influence to sustain entrepreneurial
effort. From this workshop families and business appreciate their
role in the greater community, begin realising what their success
depends on, and how they must behave and act for their success to
become
a reality. This process brings staff and management together to
develop a truly shared vision where everybody gets heard and
contributes to the direction of the business.
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Clear Choices:
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Clear Choices
builds on the expeiences of Think Big. Businesses
and organisations need to balance
three factors critical for sustainable success: relationships, profit,
and physical
resources. To reduce risk in business and
ensure greater consistency in decision-making this workshop explores
guidelines
that deliver sound decisions. These
guidelines build on the common sense of conventional business practice
and help
businesses become proactive in minimising negative and reactive impacts
as they
grow.
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Some businesses want personalised coaching to address specific
needs. The services below allow businesses to tailor the service
they
want.
Family/Business Service
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Description
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Making your Holistic Goal a
Reality:
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This four hour
consultation helps families and
businesses analyse their holistic goal statements so they reflect the
desired purpose and direction. Once the
analysis is completed, activities the family or business can do
this year are drawn out of the holistic goal and a plan of action put
in
place. The result is greater clarity about your holistic goal,
improved confidence about the direction and purpose of the business and
family, and a plan to monitor and check progress over the coming year. |
Family Coaching:
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For families and
businesses that want one
on one coaching, this service provides a means of tailoring ongoing
learning for events like testing a particular decision, revising your
holistic
goal, financial and grazing planning and benchmarking, or using
diagnosis or
policy modes. For best results this service requires a specified
number of email and phone contacts and visits over 12 months. |
Often after completing training, many businesses enjoy belonging to
support groups to share experiences, visit other businesses, and bounce
ideas around about what they can do with their resources. The
following services cater to ongoing support to build confidence and
maintain momentum.
Support Group Service
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Description
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Wealth Clubs:
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Where three to six
families get
together to learn about annual business planning. This service
involves two
group meetings
and a site visit to each family business to undertake the Annual Wealth
Planning procedures. The second group meeting allows
families
to share in their learning and to clarify their understanding of the
wealth
procedures. This way learning is shared without sharing figures
from
your business.
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Support Group
Facilitation:
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Facilitating the
ongoing
learning to help managers develop confidence and understanding
to manage holistically. This includes service group
development and leadership through creating a holistic goal for the
group and testing group activities towards it, as well as specific
holistic topics. This service is offered on a per
meeting basis or for a number of meetings over a specified period like
6 or 12 months. |
Management Clubs:
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Where three or four
family
businesses get together to learn strategic holistic business
planning. This is the executive step where families use one
another as an external board of directors to help each other develop
their businesses and manage holistically in the strictness of
confidence. They meet at
least 6 times per year. Every meeting is planned well in advance
for
each
family to be ready to act on the outcomes of
each meeting.
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Eco-Farm Group
Tours:
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Taking small groups
(4-10
people) to
visit holistic managers in various parts of the South Island. The
purpose of these tours is to provide a meaningful experience and get to
know families that are managing holistically. Tours
last from 2-5
days and take in a variety of businesses, properties, and landscapes.
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To find out more contact John King
by clicking the name.
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