Building trust in agribusiness relationships for sustainable growth

Making Agribusiness Work provides participants with practical competencies necessary to build trust in agribusiness relationships for sustainable growth.

There are two editions currently open for enrollment:

• Making Agribusiness Work: 8 month learning trajectory
• Making Agribusiness Work: Facilitation and Coaching, a 3 month course

Are you in a leadership position? All of iCRA’s Making Agribusiness Work courses can be topped up by our Making Leadership Work masterclass designed to boost your leadership skills.

Making Agribusiness Work:

Facilitation and Coaching

Are you an agribusiness professional seeking to improve your facilitation and coaching skills? Do you want to build and manage partnerships more effectively? Do you seek to have deep impact on whole agricultural supply chains?

This course consists of 1 week intensive face-2-face training in Kenya and 3 months of weekly interactive sessions online. You will learn through practise by applying the new skills you gain to your own real-life cases.

Through live sessions, practical individual and group assignments, personal mentorship, and individual feedback from our trainers, you will learn how to best:

• Build trust among stakeholders working together in the supply chain.
• Facilitate collaboration and keep everyone engaged towards reaching common goals.
• Support stakeholders finding or redefining a common vision or direction.
• Manage disagreements and support stakeholders to take decisions based on common ground and win-win principles.
• Coach implementation of activities and enable the actors involved to find their own shared solutions.

This course is designed for all agribusiness professionals who want to improve their facilitation and coaching skills and aspire to have impact on whole supply chains.

Making Agribusiness Work:

8 Month Learning Trajectory

Do you want to be an agribusiness coach who creates market value, builds trustworthy business relationships and generates a stable income?

This 8 month course consists of 1 week intensive face-2-face training in Kenya and weekly online interactive sessions. You will gain practical skills and the mindset to thrive as an agribusiness coach and facilitator.

Through live sessions, practical individual and group assignments, personal mentorship and individual feedback from our trainers, you will learn how to best:

•  Establish and manage sustainable business relationships among farmers, agri-entrepreneurs, input/service providers by building trust and pursuing common interests.
• Create market value in the supply chain you operate in.
• Use and improve your negotiation skills for better contracts and business deals.
• Secure a stable flow of income for your support services.
• Manage group dynamics, prevent and resolve possible conflicts among stakeholders.

This course is for those working in an agri-sector business context who want to contribute to local entrepreneurial development and food security, are ambitious and want create impact.