Learn About Managing Horticultural Resources
Learn how to manage horticultural businesses, staff, finances, resources, and operations with practical industry-focused training. This course teaches skills that make a real difference in the workplace!
You will learn
• organisational and planning skills,
• business and financial skills, and
• communication and management skills.
Learn efficient and economical management skills in the context of running a horticulture enterprise, achieving productivity goals, and ensuring high standards of production.
Course Code: BHT203
Course Duration: 100 hours of self-paced study
Course Structure
This course consists of 10 lessons.
Lesson 1: Horticultural Business Structure
- Legal structures for horticultural businesses
- Business registration and naming
- Starting a horticultural business
- Services offered within the horticultural industry
- Requirements for providing horticultural services
- Marketing fundamentals
Lesson 2: Management Practices
- The role of management
- Business planning principles
- Preparing a horticultural business plan
Lesson 3: Horticulture and the Law
- Quality management systems
- Contracts and business agreements
- Consumer protection and legal obligations
- Small business structures and legislation
Lesson 4: Staff Management
- Managing and leading staff
- Recruitment, interviewing and induction
- Staff training and development
- Job descriptions and responsibilities
Lesson 5: Management Practices
- Supervision techniques
- Employee communication
- Overcoming communication barriers
- Leadership development
- Implementing workplace change
Lesson 6: Financial Management
- Budget preparation and management
- Financial assistance and funding
- Taxation requirements
- Liquidity and cash flow management
- Costing and pricing services
- Billing and invoicing
- Understanding horticultural service markets
- Business acquisition options
Lesson 7: Improving Plant Varieties
- Origins of plant cultivars
- Plant Variety Rights (PVR)
- Plant naming and ownership
- Genetics and plant breeding
- Self-pollinating species
Lesson 8: Productivity and Risk
- Improving productivity
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Group decision-making processes
- Business planning and time management
- Planning and controlling expenses
- Monitoring and evaluating performance
- Sensitivity analysis
- Business insurance and risk management
Lesson 9: Managing Physical Resources
- Managing equipment, machinery and buildings
- Improving productivity using flowcharts
- Record keeping systems
- Filing and document management
- Maintaining business records
Lesson 10: Developing a Horticultural Business Plan
- Developing a horticultural business
- Managing business growth
- Preparing a nursery business plan
- Marketing strategies for gardening businesses
- Marketing strategies for landscape businesses
Who This Course Is For
The course is applicable to all sorts of horticulture enterprises from retail nurseries to business suppliers. It is best suited to people working in:
- Garden centres
- Plant nurseries
- Horticulture supplies
- Crops
- Fruit & vegetables
- Market gardening
It is also for managers of horticultural enterprises, such as parks, gardens, nurseries or horticultural crop farms.
Thinking of Enroling? Get in Touch
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