Networking and keeping up to date: vets, IPRAVI, suppliers, training, and how to stay current
A technician's knowledge has an expiry date. Strains change, feeds change, rules change, the climate itself changes: the expert who lives on what he learnt five years ago gives five-year-old advice. What protects him is not an exceptional memory, it is a network of people he can call and a habit of keeping watch, that is, regular time spent learning what has changed. This lesson teaches you to draw your network, to know whom to call for what, to organise a watch that fits in one hour a week, and to sort the sources so as not to confuse information with advertising.
12 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 15 — Expert adviser: project, audit and passing it on. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 14 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Draw the map of one’s professional network in six circles and spot the empty circles
- ✓Know whom to call for which type of question, and how to maintain each relationship without using it up
- ✓Organise a weekly one-hour watch with sources classed as reliable, useful or advertising
- ✓Keep a network notebook and a watch notebook, and turn what is learnt into change on the farm