Without effective communication and the ability to have respectful workplace relationships, no environment can survive or progress. It is vital to engage constructively and manage conflict that allows for further and future progression in the workplace.

This program allows for a workplace, through respectful working conversations to begin the process of reconstructing damaged relationships and environments and pro actively create opportunities and mechanisms to ensure that it becomes part of a healthy work culture. Through a series of facilitated conversations and support mechanisms, this social system will guide the workforce towards positive collaboration, changing the workplace culture to socially and ethically healthy environments.

The aim is to create an implementation plan that is both effective, achieving the goals to significantly shift dysfunctional communication and relationship dynamics that impact a productive and ethical workplace, AND efficient, following the smartest use of all resources available; time, budget, logistics, knowledge, towards a Communication and Relationship system in the workplace that significantly contributes to the success for all involved

Focusing on building a healthy communication culture that address challenges in the workplace pro-actively and positively, with respectful and robust work relationships that harness the differences and work towards the collective solutioning.

The goal of the CRP programme is to equip the workforce’s leader and worker levels with the skills and insights to significantly address and minimize negative behaviors and outcomes in the workplace such as:

• Tension in the workplace across various levels
• Negative workplace culture
• Reduced or poor productivity
• Potential for negative physical and verbal behaviours
• Increased sick leave
• Stress for both workers and management
• Potential substance and alcohol abuse
• Roll-over to a negative on farm community
• Exacerbated historical stereotypes and negative assumptions
• Loss or reduced opportunities of international clients

Interventions 

Offering 1:  Communication programme

• Ideally suited to farms where communication is difficult and the opportunity exists to proactively improve the farm’s workforce potential through fostering healthy and respectful communication across the farm levels
• 2 separate programmes for Senior leadership as well as Worker levels. These two separate, yet complementary programs, create a foundation for preparedness and appropriate skill to engage positively and confidently

Coaching 

• Coaching for leadership: Senior leadership play an important role in taking these interventions and integrating the learning and insights into a revitalised farm culture
• Coaching for sustainable integration into current workplace forums: Coaching support for integration into workplace forums     

• Senior leadership: ‘Leadership in an ethically and socially responsible sector’  – 1 full day AND
• Workers and supervisors: ‘Communication and relationship skills’  – 1 full day

Offering 2:  Valuing diversity programme

• Ideally suited for farms where relationships are strained and a more cohesive and collaborative farm culture is required.
• The incremental process of a combined workplace day allows the full workforce to rebuild mutually

Project Managment

• Liaison with identified farms
• Project administration management
• Quality management of associates; Facilitator and coaches
• Feedback and reporting

respectful relationships that is supported by a coaching process thereafter

• 1 full day

Offering 3: Courageous conversations programme

• Ideally suited for farms where there is a breakdown in relationships and communication is destructive with a stalemate seemingly present. Courageous Conversations towards mutual respect and fair treatment for all 1.75 days

Monitoring and closure of programme

Monitoring and support given over the period of rehabilitation identified. Once programme has been completed final reports are generated and analysed for client’s continued application and monitoring.