Culture Eats Strategy
Micro-Credential
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Limited Spaces Available
(Scholarships available for targeted industry partners)
Why Culture Eats Strategy ?
Course Schedule:
- Orientation Night: Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- Weekly Live Classes: Wednesdays, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM (from 4 June to 20 August 2025)
- Field Trip: Wednesday 25 June, 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Note this will be a recording and online debrief session for those unable to attend.
The cost of this micro-credential in 2025 is $1,280 NZD including GST.
- Fees free to targeted industry partners
- Face-to-face or join online
- Under 3 months to receive your qualification
- Tailored to your work
- 20 credits on the NZ Qualifications Framework at Level 6
Why This Course Could Change Your Career
- Learn the skills you need to problem-solve performance issues.
- Gain the ability to analyse organisational strategy and the impact of culture on its implementation.
Meet Your
Course Tutor
Sandy Scarrow
Post Graduate Diploma in Horticulture, Business and Administration
About the micro-credential
Culture Eats Strategy
LO2: Select and apply appropriate problem-solving techniques to analyse products or technologies that influence performance within a horticultural workplace.
LO3: Identify & recommend a performance optimising product or technology within a horticultural workplace.
LO4: Evaluate and revise a horticultural performance management strategy to improve business outcomes.
Week 0: Orientation
Week 1: What is Performance Management?
Week 2: Leadership.
Week 3: Performance Based Cultures.
Week 4: Field Trip.
Week 5: Strategic Planning.
Week 6: Checkpoints.
Week 7: Strategy in Focus.
Week 8: Strategic Response to a Problematic Issue in the Kiwifruit Industry.
Week 9: Innovative Technologies/Products.
Week 10: Application of Performance Management.
Week 11: Industry Issues Analysis.
Week 12: Presentations & Paper Recap.
1st March 2025 – Applications Open
3rd June 2025 – Applications Close
3rd June 2025, 4:00pm-5:00pm – Orientation
4th June 2025, 4:00pm-9:00pm – Week 1
25th June 2025 – Field Trip (One day)
20th August 2025 – Final Day of course (Week 12)
There are no prerequisites. Entry to the programme of study will be in order of receipt of applications and enrolments by applicants who meet the entry criteria required under the programme regulations and have appropriate capabilities to complete the programme of study successfully.
Successful completion of a Level 4 Certificate or above (or equivalent), preferably in the Primary Industries subject area, OR
For applicants 20 years or older without the above academic criteria, evidence of relevant knowledge, experience, and the ability to undertake tertiary study at the diploma level is required. In this case, the applicant must participate in an enrolment interview to verify the evidence.
In exceptional circumstances, an applicant who does not meet the academic entry requirements may be granted entry to the Fruition Diploma in Horticulture Production, where they supply evidence to satisfy the Academic Committee of their ability to succeed in the programme.
Students must demonstrate significant workplace experience (e.g. a supervisory and/or management role OR equivalent) within the horticulture industry.
Students will be required to provide evidence that they can progress through the programme of study. This may require any or more of the following:
- Pre-Enrolment Interview
- Challenge assessments
- Submission of a portfolio of work
Further details about entry criteria are contained in the supporting documentation.
To Apply for the ‘Culture Eats Strategy’ micro-credential, fill out the Online Application Form and select ‘Micro-Credential Paper – Culture Eats Strategy’ as your chosen programme of study.
After receiving your application, we will be in touch to confirm your eligibility and enrolment status.
What The
Graduates Say
Don’t take our word for it, hear from employees and employers around New Zealand who have taken the “Culture Eats Strategy” course and the full Fruition Diploma!
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Are these skills applicable to your management position and moving up the career ladder?
Check out some of the career-specific learning you will receive by taking the “Culture Eats Strategy” course.
Performance-focused leadership and culture.
Applying tools and innovative technologies to problem-solving.
Strategic planning and responses.
Business-specific, get the chance to make recommendations and apply your learning in a real-time environment.
Global trends and insights into the production systems and the cutting-edge innovation happening right now in the industry.
Team approaches to implementing solutions.
Industry-leading case studies, understanding the WHY of how New Zealand's leading businesses are so good at what they do.
Join our live Q&A
session online
Fill out your details below, and we will send you a link to join our Q&A session with our course tutor that will take place on 21st May 2025 and 28th May 2025, from 5pm to 6pm.
About The Fruition
Level 6 Diploma
This micro-credential course is equivalent to one of six papers that make up the full Fruition Level 6 Diploma, our Horticulture Production course that is completed over two years.
Fruition is offering this single “Culture Eats Strategy” paper as a micro credential, meaning you can gain knowledge from this amazing course without having to commit to the full diploma.
We offer our credentials with the intention to seek approval for these to be stacked towards the Fruition Diploma of Horticulture.
