Sentry Management Training Programme
The Sentry business is totally dependent on its people and their skills. Training and development programmes are therefore fundamental to maintaining competitive advantage in all chosen business fields.
We want to ensure that our employees, new or old, have the opportunity to develop and enhance their skills through a blend of practical and theoretical workshops. These are either conducted internally or externally depending on the target level and size of group.
Selection of Training Workshops used:
Management Skills: Working within teams, training of other staff, mentoring
Health and Safety: Legal requirements, risk assessments, COSHH, Safe working environment, responsibilities
Business Skills: Cost control, budgets and cash flows, profits, growth, monitoring of your business, administrative skills
Agronomy Training: Basic and advanced training on crop husbandry from establishment to harvest of all the major crops. Training will come from hands on experience, crop walking with either the manager or agronomist, and technical specialists. BASIS and FACTS training will be encouraged
Farm Machinery: Training on all machinery relevant to your role, which includes external training from associated companies, and hands on training on the farm. PA1/PA2/Forklift
Personal skills: Managing your own personal performance, people skills, soft skills, time management
Sales Training: A basic understanding of the theory and process of selling, the process and priority of buyers, how to overcome objections, and ability to close the sale and gain commitment and develop a sales strategy for gaining new customers
Employment Law: Covering essential of employment contracts, employment law and employee rights, and diversity and equality policy
Managing Performance: Understanding of why we have Personal Development Plans and what they should achieve; an understanding of how to deliver successful reviews
Soil Management - covering what is soil erosion, how to complete soil protection reviews, how to assess individual fields for their risk of soil erosion and soil wash, identifying soil type and soil pans, identifying areas for remedial cultivations, depth of cultivation
Motivation: Basic principles of motivation. Increasing awareness of staff issues including some core skills and practices to enable business managers to develop staff to their full potential
We want to ensure that our employees, new or old, have the opportunity to develop and enhance their skills through a blend of practical and theoretical workshops. These are either conducted internally or externally depending on the target level and size of group.
Selection of Training Workshops used: