Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review and confirm the organisations business goals and vision
- Compare the organisation’s business goals and vision against actual business activities
- Compare the values and community expectations of the organisation against actual business activities
- Review the organisation’s operating environment to identify potential opportunities and threats
- Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation to identify potential areas for development
- Access and discuss information on available innovations for use in the organisation with colleagues
- Document the organisation’s goals and vision
- Prepare human resource development plans
- Identify personal values, attributes and skills of the management team
- Identify specific areas of expertise in the business
- Assign specific areas of responsibility based on identified skills and attributes
- Discuss and establish succession planning with management team
- Identify skill development and training requirements
- Obtain commitment to ongoing skill development from the management team
- Establish communication strategies and develop a collaborative environment
- Prepare a plan to manage land use
- Survey land to identify natural resources, soil characteristics, water resources, and cultural heritage values of the property
- Determine land use capacities from land condition tests and history of yields
- Determine land use for individual paddocks based on land use capacities, products being produced, and the organisations goals and vision
- Develop a plan to improve the management and use of land on the property, based on property resources and the organisation’s goals and vision, and incorporate into the production plan
- Develop organisational policy in relation to the environmental management of the land based on land use, prevalent pests and diseases, and the organisation’s goals and vision
- Plan production processes
- Obtain production information for product under consideration
- Confirm characteristics of the land under production and the quality of existing infrastructure
- Obtain recent and historical data from organisational records for input to production planning
- Collect and use information about organisational planning processes and potential for improvements or innovations to inform production planning
- Identify production processes required to achieve the targeted production and compare with those that currently exist
- Use production planning information as input to other organisational planning processes
- Develop financial goals and risk management strategies
- Identify the key financial performance indicators of each enterprise in the business from analysis of cash flow, profitability and net worth
- Assess the financial performance of each enterprise in the business from analysis of key financial performance indicators and their impacts on business performance
- Identify financial goals for each enterprise in the business from financial performance assessment and the organisation’s goals and vision
- Identify areas of risk in the organisation from analysis of the operating environment, production strategies, work health and safety records and staff skills
- Identify and implement risk management strategies
- Prepare and communicate the organisations vision, goals and plan
- Integrate the organisation’s goals and vision, human resource development, land-use, production and financial plans to reflect the decisions taken in each area
- Articulate the organisation’s goals, vision and plans to relevant staff
- Establish a program to regularly review the organisations vision, goals and plans