The heart of our business is the farming families that we work with. We provide a place where farmers and stakeholders in their business can come to get help and support with the management and development of their businesses.
We work with you to fine-tune and re-align your farm enterprises and business by studying the five key performance factors that ensure sustainability and profitability. Farming can be a viable and progressive way of life despite the fact that the number of commercial farming businesses in South Africa is declining. Our emphasis is on effective farming and grazing practices - providing for optimum productivity - but also on your personal professional and business development in order to reverses this long term and established trend.
Many of the opportunities available to you for business growth and wealth creation lie beyond the boundaries of the farm. Don't just work in your business, work ON it too.
We deal comprehensively with:
The five key performance areas for farm businesses
The definition of a 'dominant' commercial farming model
The effective implementation of a professional and business development process for farmers
The process of change, exposing the reality of what change is and where it happens
Establishment of effective systems and management processes (e.g. cash-flow, crop-flow, stock-flow, for the farmer not the book keeper, accountant, or bank manager)
Economic analysis of farm enterprises (for farm management and personal decision-making purposes, not for other people for tax of bank purposes)
Business planning process, and business plans
Economic and financial analysis for the farmer. Workbook templates for thorough economic and enterprise budget analysis are provided
Financial management and wealth creation (economic cycles and principles of investment for farmers)
Entry into the business and professional or personal development process is through the BusinessLink™ workshop. This is where the strategic issues for commercial farming families and the commercial farming community are defined. The BusinessLink™ course leads into the ExecutiveLink™ forum. This is where farmers work together on their businesses in a comprehensively supported "board-room" environment. The ExecutiveLink™ forum is the implementation phase of the "working-on-the-business" process, where they will:
Develop a strategic plan for their families (including succession and risk management)
Adjust and grow their farm enterprises to fit the dominant model for economic sustainability
Change attitudes and perceptions to eliminate fear-based decisions
Contribute effectively to their preferred future goals, growth and development.
RCS(SA) is an AgriSETA registered and accredited education and training provider in the Agricultural Sector.
Company Registration Number : 2002/031771/07, registered December 2002
Certificate of Accreditation AGRI/c prov/0255/09, September 2009
The course could not have come at a better time in these economic conditions. It has changed our family's way of thinking and the way forward for us as a business is becoming clearer.
Frank Koch
Best money I have ever spent on our family. Very refreshing course. Enjoyed variety of subjects - tested to the full.
Angus Dixie
