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Growing your future through training

Program background

•  Industry and Seafood Training Tasmania acknowledged long term skills gaps and management development needs

•  Diploma-level training supported by networking with other farm managers the desired solution

•  Industry could not afford indirect costs of managers’ time off the job plus direct training costs, so no post- Cert IV training seriously considered let alone delivered

•  No available funding or delivery model to meet demand for management level, rather than farm attendant, training

Funding to the rescue!

•  Agrifood Australia informed Seafood Training Tasmania that the DEEWR funded EBPPP program could support management level training for the Tasmanian seafood industry.

•  The idea of using EBPPP funding for a Diploma of Seafood Industry (Aquaculture) for Tasmanian oyster farm managers was crystallised.

•  Because a successful program depends on industry ownership, and ownership can only be achieved through consultation.

•  Consultation occurred through a state-wide tour visiting all enterprises that had expressed interest in a farm manager development program.

•  Aims of visits were to:

- inform about opportunities - define program objectives - map out a program including content, units and mode of delivery that could meet personal, company and sector needs

Consult, consult, consult….

Program design input from… Craig Lockwood

Anthony Blunt

Tim Monaghan

Dan Roden

Shaun Keenan

Giles Fisher

Ian and Cass Melrose

Hayden Dyke

Peter Yaxley

Michael Riley

Tom Kennedy

Scott Brooks

Joe Bennet

Jarrod Poke

Paul Viney

Overall program aim

“Develop the strategic and management skills

that the new generation of oyster farm

managers would need if they were to drive the

industry towards meeting the market,

operational and technological demands

anticipated in the next 5 to 10 years.”

The Qualification SFI50104 DIPLOMA OF SEAFOOD INDUSTRY (AQUACULTURE)

•  Five residential workshops alternating between Launceston and Hobart

•  Workplace mentoring

and assessments

The workshop program

1 Strategic Management –  Strategic direction –  Strategic plan development and review

–  Sustainable aquaculture practices

2. Corporate Governance –  Establishing business and legal requirements

–  Managing finances

–  Planning or reviewing administration systems

–  Providing corporate leadership

3. Business/production planning –  Developing and reviewing business plans –  Financial planning

–  Developing and implementing production plan

–  Co-ordinating human resource

4. Managing Risk and Compliance –  Managing risk

–  Managing environmental performance

–  Developing emergency procedures for an aquaculture enterprise

5. Leadership –  Planning and achieving change and results

–  Developing and promoting industry knowledge

–  Communicating with influence

Who Participated

Participants •  Anthony Blunt AQA St Helens now ACA Aquacuture

•  Jarrod Poke Bolduans Bay Oyster

•  Daniel Grainger Bolduans Bay Oysters

•  Sam Evenhuis Bolduans Bay Oysters

•  Daniel Wicks Cameron of Tasmania

•  Tim Monaghan Chronicle Point Oysters

•  Michael Riley Clifton Pacific Oyster

•  Allan House Freycinet Marine Farm

•  Joe Bennet Get Shucked •  Craig Budd Marine Culture

•  Ian Melrose Melshell Oysters

•  Toby Jaeger Smithton Shellfish

•  Shaun Keenan Tasmanian Clean Water Oysters

The Presenters •  Nick Burrows, who has a 21 years experiences as the Company Secretary

and CFO of Tassal Group Limited delivered the Strategic Management and Corporate Governance workshop.

•  Vaughn Smith, who was a CBA banker for 23 years delivered the Business planning

•  Martyn Bradfield, the Managing Director of Injury Prevention & Management a leading risk management consultancy delivered the Risk Management workshop

•  Sam Ibbot, the owner/operator of Marine Solutions, a graduate of the Tasmanian Leadership Program, recipient of FRDC Emerging Leaders scholarship, TSIC Director and STT Board member delivered the Leadership workshops.

•  Adrian Patch, the CEO of the Training and Business Company helped facilitate assessment and break out sessions at each workshop.

Outcomes •  Diploma level qualification •  Quantified outcomes so close to the

program conclusion are difficult to identify

•  True returns for trainees and enterprises will be realised in the medium to long term

•  Government online calculator shows: –  ROI of 204% for farm and funding

body

–  ROI of 956% for the farm alone.

The real return

•  More strategic planning within the industry •  Increased participation in forums

addressing industry needs and issues •  Greater understanding of and

commitment to risk management •  Greater cooperation between participants

and their participating enterprises •  Increased number of industry participants

who can manage a farm and mentor a future farm managers

•  A group of friends who will go on to work together for the benefit of their enterprises and the sector

What the participants had to say

Feedback about residential workshops indicated appreciation of: • Content and presentation of workshops

• Knowledge of trainers

• Interactions between trainees

• Outcomes for the trainees

“It gave me the motivation to implement planning and strategies into my business”

“Identifying what happens at work that you don’t realise”

“Exchanging views and ideas with other participants”

“Very grateful for the opportunity”

“Gaining confidence”

“Meeting everyone, excellent presenters, I have learnt a lot, thank you. Excellent job!”

What they said…

Recognition

Agrifood Skills Australia recognised the value of the program and commissioned a case study report on program conception, development, methodologies and outcomes.

The case study will be used by Agrifood Skills Australia to promote this type of program to the wider industry groups and funding bodies.

Questions James Garde

RTO Manager Seafood Training Tasmania

2a Gladstone Street

Battery Point, TAS 7004

(03) 6233 2177

(0417) 957980 [email protected]

Skype: james.garde

[email protected]

Thank you to all who contributed to and participated in this program.

Craig Lockwood Anthony Blunt

Tim Monaghan

Dan Roden Shaun Kean

Giles Fisher Ian Melrose

Cass Melrose

Hayden Dyke Peter Yaxley

Michael Riley

Tom Kennedy Scott Brooks

Joe Bennet Paul Viney

Daniel Grainger Sam Evenhuis

Daniel Wicks

Alan House Craig Budd

Toby Jaeger Jarrod Poke

Nick Burrows

Vaughn Smith Martyn Bradfield

Sam Ibbot

Adrian Patch Ross Ord

STT Staff

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