We are now taking applications for our upcoming Financial Learning Pathway, a 10-week series of recorded workshops and live working group sessions. Learn how to leverage your financial reporting to make better business decisions.
Join a group of like-minded entrepreneurs as you work towards a milestone in your own business. This program is designed to incorporate the wealth of knowledge from our Subject Matter Experts as well as provide a connection for networking with businesses that are going through the same growth stage as yourself.
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The 2024 production season is fast approaching! Food producers know that finding and retaining staff can be overwhelming – particularly during an environment of upward wage pressures. This series is for farmers and food producers who want to make a plan to hire, onboard and retain workers for the 2024 season. During this 3-week, twice-weekly series of workshops and working groups, we will prepare for upcoming recruitment opportunities and staff onboarding. We will meet twice weekly to dive into strategies and resources to help us find and retain the right employees for our farm businesses.
Registration has now ended. Please check back later for the On-Demand version.
Level up your hiring plan for the 2024 production season. In this webinar, you will learn the basics of getting your farm ready to find the people who will make your season great.
Learn about:
Writing appealing job descriptions for agriculture
How to pitch your farm as an attractive place to work
Safety and compliance for agriculture businesses
Employment regulations for on and off the farm
Wage planning and budgets
Recruiting suitable candidates is critical to success on the farm. This session will outline where and how you can find the superstars who you want on your team this year.
Learn about:
Where to advertise so candidates can find you
Different types of wage support programs and recruiting support
Various employment models that are available to you, such as Co-op students and retraining programs
Employee retention is a product of effective hiring plans that include a well thought out interview and onboarding plan.
Learn about:
The ins and outs of conducting interviews (i.e. choosing an appropriate format, setting and duration)
Drafting effective and appropriate interview questions
Laying out job expectations (including those for seasonal workers)
Involving the right people in the screening process
Training and mentoring new employees
Calling all food producers looking to get into the wholesale business or those planning a visit to a trade show this year! The Distribution Bootcamp is a three-part series where you will work with our Advisors to prepare your product and pitch for wholesale buyers and distributors alongside other producers in your region.
Registration is now closed.
Topic 1: Being a Good Supplier
Date: September 26, 2023
Topic 2: What to Prepare for Your Pitch Meeting
Date: October 3, 2023
Date: October 3, 2023
Date: October 10 , 2023
Topic 3: Prepare for Food Expos and Trade Shows
Date: October 17, 2023
Date: October 24, 2023
Food growers need to know how to price their products to make their farms sustainable and increase revenue. Understanding pricing fundamentals allows us to improve efficiency and reduce expenses. This series is for food growers who want to improve pricing models to make a profit in 2024. During this 8-week series of workshops and working groups, we will learn how to calculate production costs for effective planning and product pricing, and we will dive into using margins to plan for cost of production, revenue, and staffing.
Registration has now ended. Please check back later for the On-Demand version.
Learn about:
Why farmers should know how much it costs to grow a unit of product
How to calculate the cost of production for sustainability, growth and profit
Learn about:
How to use financial statements to calculate operating costs (i.e. growing and packaging) and fixed costs (i.e. mortgage/lease) to price our products
How to use your unit cost data to understand production intensity and harvest intervals for what you grow
Learn about:
How to plan for profit before you put anything in the ground or in the barn
How to use break-even analysis to calculate how many units you need in a given production area to produce enough to exceed your operating costs
Learn about:
Why data and gut feelings can sometimes give you different answers
How to use break-even analysis to make data-driven decisions; for example, how much labour will be required, how much shrink to account for, how to think about potential risk, how to plan future harvests, how to consider future land opportunities
Learn to leverage your financial reporting to make better business decisions.
One of the best tools business owners can use is their financial reporting!
During this 10 week series of recorded workshops and live working groups, you will learn the fundamentals of these influential reports and how to use them to make data-driven decisions. You will know what the information tells you about your business, what changes to make to get more accurate data and key ratios to analyze your business’s health.
Commit to 10 weeks of learning to leverage your financial reporting to make better business decisions.
One of the best tools business owners can use is their financial reporting. Join us for this multi-week series of recorded workshops and live working groups to learn the fundamentals of these influential reports and how to use them to make data-driven decisions. Learn what the information tells you about your business, what changes to make to get more accurate data and key ratios to analyze your company’s financial health.
Qualification Requirements:
Space is limited, and specific business requirements are required. Once you apply, a BBA Program Representative will contact you.
Topic 1: The importance of regularly reviewing monthly financial statements to analyze your business
Topic 2: Intro to Profit & Loss (P&L), Balance Sheet (BS), and Chart of Accounts (COA)
Topic 3: In-depth P&L
Topic 4: Margins and ratios
Topic 5: TTM (Trailing 12 Months) and Analyzing Trends
Do you want to elevate your leadership acumen and implement a toolset that will propel your business forward?
Effective leaders are good engineers! This 12-week online series of workshops and working groups will illustrate the structure, process and tools of effective leadership. You will learn how to implement a reliable blueprint in your business that will proactively guide your team to achieve predictable and elevated business results.
Registration has now ended. Please check back later for the On-Demand version.
If you don’t lead your team, you will get what you are given - not what you want.
In this session, you will learn about:
If your team is not focused, you are like a rudderless ship being blown in the wind.
In this session, you will learn the processes required to:
When making a plan, it is crucial that you are clear on your vision, mission and values.
In this session, you will learn:
When everyone is accountable, no one is accountable.
Clear communication creates accountability and provides a framework for success.
In this session, you will learn how to create clarity for your team and empower them through:
Leadership involves not only a framework but also someone to implement that framework. That is what it means to be a leader; you are the only one who can do it.
In this session, you will learn how to use structure, process and tools to empower your team to execute a plan while:
The world does not stand still, and neither does your business. If you don’t continue to revisit your plans, learn from mistakes and adjust, you will not optimize and/or be able to scale your business.
In this session, you will learn to: