What will be covered?

Block 1: Audit

  • Reviewing the fundamentals of running and growing your agribusiness
  • Analysing your current business systems and results
  • Introduction to business planning focused on threshold issues relative to future growth
  • Reviewing personal values and work / life balance


Block 2: Opportunity

  • Understanding the leadership role of the owner-manager
  • Exploring the opportunities and constraints for agribusiness in a export-oriented global economy
  • Discussing the possibilities for leveraging competitive advantage in supply chain management for the agribusiness industry
  • Examination of the principles of motivating and rewarding the people resource in the agribusiness


Block 3: Going Forward

  • Expanding the possibilities into true quantum growth and development for the business and for owner-managers
  • Exploration of the issues of exit planning and possible succession to a family member
  • Development of detailed business plans for creating wealth at a future point of transition and leaving the agribusiness in good shape
  • Celebration of group synergy and the network power of the agribusiness cohort


 

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Ernst & Young Hewlett Packard The University of Auckland Microsoft Paul Diver and Associates Grafton Consulting Group Gen-i BNZ

"Our business is a multiple farm dairy business that has always been in a fast growth mode. You need to be educated otherwise the business can outgrow the founder's ability to run a larger business. I feel there is the need to educate otherwise the business can outgrow the founder's ability to run a larger business. Being a member of the ICEHOUSE League is giving me a source of networking from other ICEHOUSE members from other totally different businesses."

- Trevor Hamilton,                     T.H. Enterprises Ltd, Agri 1