Leadership up date

We have decided to undertake some sessions that are brief and punchy to meet with farmers availabity to undertake leadership development

leadership course

Have approval from grant funder to run course.

Seeking out folk to come on course, trawling the e mail and snail mail addresses to get hits, but it is not rich mining at present.

There seems to be resistance to the course offering. Is this a good course?

what has been established

We have had a meeting at Harper Adams and have developed the ideas from the research to formulate a course.

• Leadership is to be looking at leadership of or within the industry
• couirse will be punchy and practical
• Leadership needs to include other sectors tan farmers alone
• key words in leadership
• Put something in place that enables a type of progression, there are many courses and to often they are from nothing to 2 or 3 week residential courses

Grist defines leadership

The division between management and leadership is rooted in the distinction between known and unknown, belies the complexity of the relationship between problem and response.

Key words

1. Values (is about Integrity, moral Authority)
2. Influence
3. Information (about communication, understanding, use of media)
4. Change (about situation)
5. Vision
6. Flexibility
7. Effectivenes (about networking)

leadership education and leadership traits

A read through of the replies to e mail survey shows that the farm community is derivative of an authoritarian type of leadership probably not receptive tp the new ways of working. Farming is often small in business terms for leadership education activity.

Problems in the ruarl community and problems in farming are often described as intractable and condensed around communication problems. The development of leadership skills with new technologies would help, but HOW?

muckerty mapping

I came across this web tool, muckerty mapping. This sets out connections of people, place and networks. Here is a connection to a map of Norman Borlaug

http://www.muckety.com/8019CB55741E9F8CFF3AC2B64B53312F.map

While this tool is only available on license should you want to do your own, this particular individual's map (Borlaug) is intersting from the agricultural leadership point of view. How is Borlaug connected to Sachs? Well I didn't know they were, but they are through Earthscan.

To use the map open uip in full screen and double click on boxes, boxes can be moved by holding on box with mouse and move.

e mail 143 contacts for information on leadership

Yesterday I sent out 143 e mails to various folk i know to get their feelings about leadership training/courses in agriculture/farming.

I had 8 bounced back with 3 on maternity leave, which I found interesting, the others were on out of office reply.

To this moment I have had 23 comeback, which I think is very good. 3 or 4 have not understood my request which demonstrates my communication is not top notch.

put out e mail to collect data from Landex

Sent out via landex e mail to various colleges to find out what is happening in the landex syndicate. Have had three replies since the request was sent on 3rd september