Sustainable Success: Professional Skills for Thriving in Agri-Food sector

Program Overview

This program equips agri-food industry professionals with essential skills for success, including effective communication, teamwork, problem-solving, personal effectiveness, and career development. It features a transdisciplinary approach, incorporates real-world issues, and offers a blend of lectures, mentoring, fieldwork, workshops, and assessments. Upon completion, participants will be skilled in analyzing workplace problems, building effective teams, communicating effectively, and managing their work-life balance.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Module Goal: To develop professional skills essential to success in the modern agri-food sector, including expertise in effective communication, teamwork motivation, performance improvement and personal effectiveness.
• Module Content:
• Designed to meet connected curriculum ambitions.
• Strong focus on transdisciplinary integration by incorporating messy and complex problems in the learning materials and assessments.
• Explicitly cultivates environments wherein students’ intentional learning capacity is challenged and supported to develop and represent their developing employability competencies and capacities for the sector.
• Incorporates content from a range of disciplines.
• Actively connects learners with authentic issues in the agri-food sector based on their extra-academic experience.
• 25 x 1hr(s) lectures
• 4 x 1hr(s) mentoring/coaching
• 10 x 1hr(s) fieldwork
• 5 x 1hr(s) workshops
• 4 x 1hr(s) seminar/webinars

Assessment:

• Continuous Assessment - 200 marks
• Assignment - report / 100 marks
• Learning log(s) - 40 marks
• Presentation - group presentation - 60 marks

Careers:

• On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Identify and use a range of tools to analyse and solve complex workplace problems
• Demonstrate enhanced self-awareness and apply this in real-work situations
• Analyse team dynamics and stages and create strategies to build effective teams
• Communicate effectively to a variety of audiences using a range of methods and channels
• Develop strategies to manage stress, improve focus and priorisitiation and increase productivity

Other:

• Requirements: Industry personnel working within agri-food SMEs