December 4, 2025 • 9 mins
Tony Groves of Halo Training looks at upcoming personal development courses that are coming up.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back to the Muster, Tony Groves of Halo Training.
We caught up a few weeks ago with Tony and
we're going to have a follow up year and again
this afternoon just to see how things have been in
a few weeks since. I mean, you talk about resilience
on farm and the likes, and Tony's got some great
things that he can implement as well through a course
that he's offering. Tony rucking to the Muster once again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, thanks mate, Thanks having me back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You're always good to catch up. Now. We spoke up
about three or four weeks. We had to catch up
about three or four weeks ago, that should be and
really interested in getting an insight around some courses that
you're offering just for the uninitiated and those that missed it.
Talk about what Halo trainings about.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, Halo Training we initially des We actually came about
it by accident. It wasn't something we set out to
do intentionally. But I joined the Australian Army as a
young infantry soldier of sixteen and a half when I
signed up, and I did eleven years there and then
five years with a private military company in Iraq. And
Afghanistan esymore with the army, and when I came back home,
(01:12):
I found there was a there was a real interest
in the leadership lessons that we'd learned overseas from business people.
I started out as just conversations, and eventually it ended
up turning into our actual business because I was talking
when I integrated into the real world, just in the workforce,
(01:33):
I started complaining also about some of the things that
I'd been seeing going on in terms of leadership, and
with a nudge from my wife, she said, well, we
said of complaining about it, if we know the answer,
we should set up a business. So we set up
Halo Training, which really focuses on the lessons that we
learned from the battlefield that apply directly to business and agriculture.
(01:56):
And agriculture came on a little bit later. To be honest,
we didn't set out to do agg either. If we
started out just teaching business in general, and we got
more and more farmers interested because they could see how
many similarities there were from farming and being an infantry soldier,
being out in the weather, hard work, no set hours,
(02:19):
mental health issues, a whole lot. So it really resonated
as a result HALO training. We teach leadership for business,
but we also have a leadership and agriculture program called
CHLF Certified Halo Leader sorry chl AG Certified Halo Leader
Agriculture and it's a one year program that last year
(02:41):
we rented out of fair Lights Station and this year
we'll be running it out of farm Lands at Mossbourn.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's an under recent correlation you bring there being
on the battlefield, but to the resilience of farmers in
the middle of September, for example, when the weather is
an on your side.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, that's right. It's like it's so similar if we're
out on an infantry patrol overseas, it doesn't matter what
the weather's doing. The job still has to happen. And yeah,
it impacts what we're doing. It makes it a lot
more difficult and it adds pressure, but we're still we're
out there in the environment all the time, and we're
away from our families as well. Right, we may have
(03:22):
touched on it last time, I'm not sure, but something
that's come up quite a lot from farmers on our
egg program. They talk about things like when you guys
are overseas, you're away from your family. As farmers, we
might not be away from our families geographically, but our
farms are quite large and we're always away from our
family for long periods of time, so there's actually quite
(03:43):
a common ground there as well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Regarding HALO and your approach to the course of such
Tony what's involved.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, for our egg program, it's stretched out over the
course of a year, so we do a three hour
session once a month and we focus on just one
to each month. And this is actually designed from the
feedback or the input we are getting from farmers saying
that if they want to do a program on leadership,
(04:14):
they'll do communication here and they'll do resilience somewhere else.
And they said there was no one stop place where
you could go and get the whole suite. And that's
what this is all about. It We teach twelve subjects
over the course of a year, three hours each month,
and it's designed to be really quick and accessible, so
you can get off the farm for a few hours
(04:36):
and then go back to work again. And what we
really provide is structured approach, so there's like a leadership
operating system that farmers can adopt, not just themselves, for
those who are on the program, but they can introduce
it to that farms and they can create leadership consistency
and structure through that process.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So it's only thirty six sales throughout the year. That
makes it three hours a month. It's about being Einstein,
but it's enough for people to get an understanding of
what they need to do from a leadership perspective and
take it back to their perspective businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And what we do is, so
let's say the first month might be on strategic communication.
We have really simple, easy to recall tools and that's
actually something that we learned from the battlefield. A thesis
is great if there's a place for it, but when
you're on the farm in the moment, under pressure, you
(05:30):
need to be able to call the information you need
right here, right now, off the top of your head.
So if we're doing that communication approach that topic, then
what happens is we'll discuss it, we'll provide the tool,
they'll practice it in the class, and then after that,
between that month and the next month, they'll do a
(05:54):
short three to five minute case study on where they've
applied that tool back on the farm and what the
result and then they'll present it to the group and
everybody does it, and that way we hear the perspectives
from all you know, all the different farmers that are
in the program. So it's only through how you get
the tools, but you also have to go out and
(06:14):
practice them in the workplace, so we know that the
tools are getting applied because they have to present them
on the next session.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So the farmers that have been involved with your courses
in the past time you mus been the biggest takeaway
to take them from the from the overall set up.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, it's actually quite interesting if there's really two.
The first and most common is I had no idea
what leadership even was until I attended the program. A
lot of people, Yeah, I'm a farm manager. I know
exactly what I'm doing. And then when you come into
the class and you ask what is leadership? It starts
right there, what is leadership? And you know, we heard
(06:54):
from when we were overseas if we can't clearly articulate
what leadership is and how do we know we're doing
it and what does look like? So that was the
biggest takeaway is that. And then the second most common
point that gets brought up is the importance of structure.
So our communication tool is just three words as a
guide and that's easy to remember and it helps me
(07:16):
structure what I need to communicate to my teams. And
the feedback that we've been getting about that is these
tools are so simple, they're so easy to use, and
it's changed everything on the farm because it covers all
the things that they need to communicate, but we keep
it packaged up in a really clear and concise message
that's not only easy for them to communicate, it's easy
(07:39):
for the team to interpret.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
How do people get involved? What where do they get
in touch regarding Halo training If they're can to actually
go through and think about what they need to do
as far as leadership capabilities.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They just come to our website at Halo Training dot
co dot MZ and go to our programs and you'll
see a certified Halo Leader Agriculture program and it's got
all the information there about the program and it starts.
The next cohort starts in twenty nine January next year
at Moss Spernit farm Lands, and we've got a lot
(08:13):
of interest. Actually, if I've got a moment, yes, I
want to talk about four things that have come up.
You know, since the last time we spoke, we've had
quite a lot of people reach out to us, and
I find it really interesting as to why people are
reaching out to join the program. And the four points
was improve farm communication, which we're just talking about, creating
(08:35):
effective leader consistency, addressing personality clashes and team dynamics, and
helping their managers lead their team through adversity. So they
are the four primary reasons why people are signing up,
which I find really interesting that all have been around
these four points.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Halo Training dot co dot in Z. If anybody that's interested.
Tony Groves, thanks very much your time on the master
really interesting, is usual?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, thanks a lot, and he really appreciates me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Tony Groves of Halo Training Once again, Halo Training dot co,
dot MZ. If you want to look at leadership capabilities
and what you can achieve in a personal scale as well,
get in touch of Tony and team. Always good to
catch up. Maraykabrans and studio. Next from Mainland Minerals, we're
going to find our salves, our winner of this five
hundred dollars Preezy card
Welcome back to the Muster, Tony Groves of Halo Training.
We caught up a few weeks ago with Tony and
we're going to have a follow up year and again
this afternoon just to see how things have been in
a few weeks since. I mean, you talk about resilience
on farm and the likes, and Tony's got some great
things that he can implement as well through a course
that he's offering. Tony rucking to the Muster once again.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, thanks mate, Thanks having me back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You're always good to catch up. Now. We spoke up
about three or four weeks. We had to catch up
about three or four weeks ago, that should be and
really interested in getting an insight around some courses that
you're offering just for the uninitiated and those that missed it.
Talk about what Halo trainings about.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, Halo Training we initially des We actually came about
it by accident. It wasn't something we set out to
do intentionally. But I joined the Australian Army as a
young infantry soldier of sixteen and a half when I
signed up, and I did eleven years there and then
five years with a private military company in Iraq. And
Afghanistan esymore with the army, and when I came back home,
(01:12):
I found there was a there was a real interest
in the leadership lessons that we'd learned overseas from business people.
I started out as just conversations, and eventually it ended
up turning into our actual business because I was talking
when I integrated into the real world, just in the workforce,
(01:33):
I started complaining also about some of the things that
I'd been seeing going on in terms of leadership, and
with a nudge from my wife, she said, well, we
said of complaining about it, if we know the answer,
we should set up a business. So we set up
Halo Training, which really focuses on the lessons that we
learned from the battlefield that apply directly to business and agriculture.
(01:56):
And agriculture came on a little bit later. To be honest,
we didn't set out to do agg either. If we
started out just teaching business in general, and we got
more and more farmers interested because they could see how
many similarities there were from farming and being an infantry soldier,
being out in the weather, hard work, no set hours,
(02:19):
mental health issues, a whole lot. So it really resonated
as a result HALO training. We teach leadership for business,
but we also have a leadership and agriculture program called
CHLF Certified Halo Leader sorry chl AG Certified Halo Leader
Agriculture and it's a one year program that last year
(02:41):
we rented out of fair Lights Station and this year
we'll be running it out of farm Lands at Mossbourn.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it's an under recent correlation you bring there being
on the battlefield, but to the resilience of farmers in
the middle of September, for example, when the weather is
an on your side.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, that's right. It's like it's so similar if we're
out on an infantry patrol overseas, it doesn't matter what
the weather's doing. The job still has to happen. And yeah,
it impacts what we're doing. It makes it a lot
more difficult and it adds pressure, but we're still we're
out there in the environment all the time, and we're
away from our families as well. Right, we may have
(03:22):
touched on it last time, I'm not sure, but something
that's come up quite a lot from farmers on our
egg program. They talk about things like when you guys
are overseas, you're away from your family. As farmers, we
might not be away from our families geographically, but our
farms are quite large and we're always away from our
family for long periods of time, so there's actually quite
(03:43):
a common ground there as well.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Regarding HALO and your approach to the course of such
Tony what's involved.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, for our egg program, it's stretched out over the
course of a year, so we do a three hour
session once a month and we focus on just one
to each month. And this is actually designed from the
feedback or the input we are getting from farmers saying
that if they want to do a program on leadership,
(04:14):
they'll do communication here and they'll do resilience somewhere else.
And they said there was no one stop place where
you could go and get the whole suite. And that's
what this is all about. It We teach twelve subjects
over the course of a year, three hours each month,
and it's designed to be really quick and accessible, so
you can get off the farm for a few hours
(04:36):
and then go back to work again. And what we
really provide is structured approach, so there's like a leadership
operating system that farmers can adopt, not just themselves, for
those who are on the program, but they can introduce
it to that farms and they can create leadership consistency
and structure through that process.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So it's only thirty six sales throughout the year. That
makes it three hours a month. It's about being Einstein,
but it's enough for people to get an understanding of
what they need to do from a leadership perspective and
take it back to their perspective businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And what we do is, so
let's say the first month might be on strategic communication.
We have really simple, easy to recall tools and that's
actually something that we learned from the battlefield. A thesis
is great if there's a place for it, but when
you're on the farm in the moment, under pressure, you
(05:30):
need to be able to call the information you need
right here, right now, off the top of your head.
So if we're doing that communication approach that topic, then
what happens is we'll discuss it, we'll provide the tool,
they'll practice it in the class, and then after that,
between that month and the next month, they'll do a
(05:54):
short three to five minute case study on where they've
applied that tool back on the farm and what the
result and then they'll present it to the group and
everybody does it, and that way we hear the perspectives
from all you know, all the different farmers that are
in the program. So it's only through how you get
the tools, but you also have to go out and
(06:14):
practice them in the workplace, so we know that the
tools are getting applied because they have to present them
on the next session.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So the farmers that have been involved with your courses
in the past time you mus been the biggest takeaway
to take them from the from the overall set up.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, it's actually quite interesting if there's really two.
The first and most common is I had no idea
what leadership even was until I attended the program. A
lot of people, Yeah, I'm a farm manager. I know
exactly what I'm doing. And then when you come into
the class and you ask what is leadership? It starts
right there, what is leadership? And you know, we heard
(06:54):
from when we were overseas if we can't clearly articulate
what leadership is and how do we know we're doing
it and what does look like? So that was the
biggest takeaway is that. And then the second most common
point that gets brought up is the importance of structure.
So our communication tool is just three words as a
guide and that's easy to remember and it helps me
(07:16):
structure what I need to communicate to my teams. And
the feedback that we've been getting about that is these
tools are so simple, they're so easy to use, and
it's changed everything on the farm because it covers all
the things that they need to communicate, but we keep
it packaged up in a really clear and concise message
that's not only easy for them to communicate, it's easy
(07:39):
for the team to interpret.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
How do people get involved? What where do they get
in touch regarding Halo training If they're can to actually
go through and think about what they need to do
as far as leadership capabilities.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
They just come to our website at Halo Training dot
co dot MZ and go to our programs and you'll
see a certified Halo Leader Agriculture program and it's got
all the information there about the program and it starts.
The next cohort starts in twenty nine January next year
at Moss Spernit farm Lands, and we've got a lot
(08:13):
of interest. Actually, if I've got a moment, yes, I
want to talk about four things that have come up.
You know, since the last time we spoke, we've had
quite a lot of people reach out to us, and
I find it really interesting as to why people are
reaching out to join the program. And the four points
was improve farm communication, which we're just talking about, creating
(08:35):
effective leader consistency, addressing personality clashes and team dynamics, and
helping their managers lead their team through adversity. So they
are the four primary reasons why people are signing up,
which I find really interesting that all have been around
these four points.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Halo Training dot co dot in Z. If anybody that's interested.
Tony Groves, thanks very much your time on the master
really interesting, is usual?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, thanks a lot, and he really appreciates me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Tony Groves of Halo Training Once again, Halo Training dot co,
dot MZ. If you want to look at leadership capabilities
and what you can achieve in a personal scale as well,
get in touch of Tony and team. Always good to
catch up. Maraykabrans and studio. Next from Mainland Minerals, we're
going to find our salves, our winner of this five
hundred dollars Preezy card
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