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Agriculture and horticulture are changing, and businesses need to adapt to keep pace. Whether its staffing, skills or sustainability, we're bringing resources together to help you ensure your business thrives.

Communication skills are a core component to any manager's skillset.

Building your team

The right staff can help you optimise your own workflow and improve efficiencies in your business. But there are few issues more stressful than human resources too.

We're always adding more tools and tips to help you better manage your workforce.

Recruitment Toolkit

Members can use this toolkit to help them with each step in finding the right person to join their business.

Work Experience Toolkit

Find out how you can benefit from offering work experience placements and how you can make them a success.

How you can benefit from apprenticeships and T-Levels

Find out how young apprentices and students can bring a lot of enthusiasm and energy to your business.

Recruitment Toolkit

Our Recruitment Toolkit can help you find the right employee to fit in with your business.

Discipline Toolkit

Our Discipline Toolkit can help you understand, process and handle tricky issues with employees.

New technology is bringing new opportunities - and challenges - to all sectors of agriculture and horticulture. Develop your skills to make the most of them.

Developing skills

As the industry changes, so will the core set of skills. New technology and tools all require new skills, and managers and owners will increasingly need a better idea of how to use the data generated on their farms.

We're helping you to identify gaps in your own skill set and that of your team, with our Capability Profile tool and industry-standard job profiles.

Find out how you can easily highlight training needs, and how you can track progress against your learning goals using our CPD Hub.

Improve your coaching skills and motivate your staff

Find out how coaching skills are a key factor in increasing loyalty of staff and improving their efficiency.

Identify skills gaps in your team

Use our industry-standard job profiles to assess the skills of your staff and find areas of improvement.

Maintain your CPD

Ensure your accreditations are valid by tracking all your CPD requirements in our Learning Record.

Improving efficiencies

Our Business Excellence webinar series has been created to provide you with expert advice on the big issues farmers and growers are facing.

Whether it's challenges around recruitment and staff retention or advice on how you can improve your business' resilience and reduce waste, our webinars offer you practical advice to improve your efficiencies.

What's more, we're creating handy resources and templates to help you make the changes our experts recommend - all available online and free to members.

Book a place on our webinars

Our previous webinars and resources

Coaching or mentoring, with Alistair Gibb.

Coaching or mentoring: what's right for you?

Discover the differences between coaching and mentoring and how your business can benefit from them.

Alistair Gibb hosted our webinar on effective recruitment.

Hiring for the long term

Alistair Gibb discusses how businesses can optimise their chances of success when recruiting staff

Management: Time to get lean

Find out what lean management is and how your farming or growing businesses could benefit from it.

Members can watch the webinar with Rachael Chamberlayne in full.

Resilient staff, resilient business

With farmers and growers facing contiued uncertainty, we looked at how you can strengthen your business.

Sustainability

Sustainability is about more than just environmental impact, it should account for the future management of that business, too.

Environment Toolkit

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Succession Toolkit

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Get the bigger picture on subjects like recruitment and farm safety with our business guides.

Grow your knowledge

Our guides are designed to give you a deep dive into subjects, and direct you to the tools and resources that can help you with each aspect of the larger subject.

These complement the resources in the Learning Hub and our toolkits, allowing you to look at the bigger picture of any issue and directing you to the specific content relevant to any individual part of that.

This advice can help you make your farm site safer.

Quick steps to improve farm safety

Identify the main risks on farms, how you can manage them and where you can go to learn more.

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