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Growing your future through training

Program background
•  Industry and Seafood Training Tasmania acknowledged long term
skills gaps and management development needs
•  Diploma-level training supported by networking with other farm
managers the desired solution
•  Industry could not afford indirect costs of managers’ time off the job
plus direct training costs, so no post- Cert IV training seriously
considered let alone delivered
•  No available funding or delivery model to meet demand for
management level, rather than farm attendant, training

Funding to the rescue!
•  Agrifood Australia informed Seafood Training Tasmania that the
DEEWR funded EBPPP program could support management level
training for the Tasmanian seafood industry.
•  The idea of using EBPPP funding for a Diploma of Seafood Industry
(Aquaculture) for Tasmanian oyster farm managers was crystallised.

•  Because a successful program depends on industry ownership, and
ownership can only be achieved through consultation.
•  Consultation occurred through a state-wide tour visiting all
enterprises that had expressed interest in a farm manager
development program.
•  Aims of visits were to:
- inform about opportunities
- define program objectives
- map out a program including content, units and mode of
delivery that could meet personal, company and sector needs
Consult, consult, consult….

Program design input from…
Craig Lockwood
Anthony Blunt
Tim Monaghan
Dan Roden
Shaun Keenan
Giles Fisher
Ian and Cass Melrose
Hayden Dyke
Peter Yaxley
Michael Riley
Tom Kennedy
Scott Brooks
Joe Bennet
Jarrod Poke
Paul Viney

Overall program aim
“Develop the strategic and management skills
that the new generation of oyster farm
managers would need if they were to drive the
industry towards meeting the market,
operational and technological demands
anticipated in the next 5 to 10 years.”

The Qualification
SFI50104 DIPLOMA OF SEAFOOD INDUSTRY (AQUACULTURE)
•  Five residential
workshops alternating
between Launceston
and Hobart
•  Workplace mentoring
and assessments

The workshop program
1 Strategic Management
–  Strategic direction
–  Strategic plan development and review
–  Sustainable aquaculture practices
2. Corporate Governance
–  Establishing business and legal requirements
–  Managing finances
–  Planning or reviewing administration systems
–  Providing corporate leadership

3. Business/production planning
–  Developing and reviewing business plans
–  Financial planning
–  Developing and implementing production plan
–  Co-ordinating human resource
4. Managing Risk and Compliance
–  Managing risk
–  Managing environmental performance
–  Developing emergency procedures for an aquaculture enterprise
5. Leadership
–  Planning and achieving change and results
–  Developing and promoting industry knowledge
–  Communicating with influence

Participants
•  Anthony Blunt AQA St Helens now ACA Aquacuture
•  Jarrod Poke Bolduans Bay Oyster
•  Daniel Grainger Bolduans Bay Oysters
•  Sam Evenhuis Bolduans Bay Oysters
•  Daniel Wicks Cameron of Tasmania
•  Tim Monaghan Chronicle Point Oysters
•  Michael Riley Clifton Pacific Oyster
•  Allan House Freycinet Marine Farm
•  Joe Bennet Get Shucked
•  Craig Budd Marine Culture
•  Ian Melrose Melshell Oysters
•  Toby Jaeger Smithton Shellfish
•  Shaun Keenan Tasmanian Clean Water Oysters

The Presenters
•  Nick Burrows, who has a 21 years experiences as the Company Secretary
and CFO of Tassal Group Limited delivered the Strategic Management
and Corporate Governance workshop.
•  Vaughn Smith, who was a CBA banker for 23 years delivered the
Business planning
•  Martyn Bradfield, the Managing Director of Injury Prevention &
Management a leading risk management consultancy delivered the Risk
Management workshop
•  Sam Ibbot, the owner/operator of Marine Solutions, a graduate of the
Tasmanian Leadership Program, recipient of FRDC Emerging Leaders
scholarship, TSIC Director and STT Board member delivered the
Leadership workshops.
•  Adrian Patch, the CEO of the Training and Business Company helped
facilitate assessment and break out sessions at each workshop.

Outcomes
•  Diploma level qualification
•  Quantified outcomes so close to the
program conclusion are difficult to
identify
•  True returns for trainees and
enterprises will be realised in the
medium to long term
•  Government online calculator shows:
–  ROI of 204% for farm and funding
body
–  ROI of 956% for the farm alone.

The real return
•  More strategic planning within the industry
•  Increased participation in forums
addressing industry needs and issues
•  Greater understanding of and
commitment to risk management
•  Greater cooperation between participants
and their participating enterprises
•  Increased number of industry participants
who can manage a farm and mentor a
future farm managers
•  A group of friends who will go on to work
together for the benefit of their
enterprises and the sector

What the participants had to say
Feedback about residential workshops indicated appreciation of:
• Content and presentation of workshops
• Knowledge of trainers
• Interactions between trainees
• Outcomes for the trainees

“It gave me the motivation to implement planning and strategies into my
business”
“Identifying what happens at work that you don’t realise”
“Exchanging views and ideas with other participants”
“Very grateful for the opportunity”
“Gaining confidence”
“Meeting everyone, excellent presenters, I have learnt a lot, thank you.
Excellent job!”
What they said…

Recognition
Agrifood Skills Australia recognised
the value of the program and
commissioned a case study report on
program conception, development,
methodologies and outcomes.
The case study will be used by
Agrifood Skills Australia to promote
this type of program to the wider
industry groups and funding bodies.

Questions
James Garde
RTO Manager
Seafood Training Tasmania
2a Gladstone Street
Battery Point, TAS 7004
(03) 6233 2177
(0417) 957980
jamesg@seafoodtrainingtas.com.au
Skype: james.garde
stt@seafoodtrainingtas.com.au

Thank you to all who contributed to and
participated in this program.
Craig Lockwood
Anthony Blunt
Tim Monaghan
Dan Roden
Shaun Kean
Giles Fisher
Ian Melrose
Cass Melrose
Hayden Dyke
Peter Yaxley
Michael Riley
Tom Kennedy
Scott Brooks
Joe Bennet
Paul Viney
Daniel Grainger
Sam Evenhuis
Daniel Wicks
Alan House
Craig Budd
Toby Jaeger
Jarrod Poke
Nick Burrows
Vaughn Smith
Martyn Bradfield
Sam Ibbot
Adrian Patch
Ross Ord
STT Staff

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