We are so excited here at RuralScope.  We turn 20 years old in 2020.  We are celebrating by sharing 20 stories across 20 months.  These will include highlights, lowlights and learnings.  A unique insight into our development - personal and business for you.  Our aim is to share learnings to support others who live and work across rural Australia.   

This is our tenth story in the series.  It’s all about how we got to work in the Australian cotton industry and what it’s like. 

I’m often asked how we got to work in the Cotton industry, what’s it like and is it different to other sectors?  I think these questions are super relevant for others in business as we had no prior experience with Cotton and didn’t know what a boll was (we pronounced it ball) when we first got started.  And it’s fair to say that we didn’t specifically target Cotton as an industry we wanted to work in, now 18 years on we are super glad that our work led us to this fabulous sector of Australian agriculture.

We are so excited here at RuralScope.  We turn 20 years old in 2020.  We are celebrating by sharing 20 stories.  These will include highlights, lowlights and learnings.  A unique insight into our development - personal and business for you.  Our aim is to share learnings to support others who live and work across rural Australia.   

This is our ninth story in the series.  I have always loved reading, watching and learning from others who are successful.  My bedside table always has at least one biography on there.  If you know me well, you likely know I’m a bit of a sticky beak – a nice one – always interested in other people’s lives – both who they are and what they do.  And I’ve turned it into a business practise and one that I think everyone in business should take on.  So here’s what it is… 

We are so excited here at RuralScope.  We turn 20 years old in 2020.  We are celebrating by sharing 20 stories.   These will include highlights, lowlights and learnings.  A unique insight into our development - personal and business for you.  Our aim is to share learnings to support others who live and work across rural Australia.   

This is our eighth story in the series.  It’s about the importance of holding regular business check in days.  And how these are essential to growing a profitable and sustainable business.  If you don’t currently work on your business in this way, then I really encourage you to stop right now and run a day like this.  And if you work alone and think you’ve got this sorted please think again as it was and now in our 20th year in business still is one of the best ways we work on the business.  And great changes have always stemmed from these days.  Here's just one example.

We are so excited here at RuralScope.  We turn 20 years old in 2020.  We are celebrating by sharing 20 stories across 20 months.  These will include highlights, lowlights and learnings.  A unique insight into our development - personal and business for you.  Our aim is to share learnings to support others who live and work across rural Australia. 

This is our seventh story in the series.  It’s about the importance of values to drive success – personally and in business. 

For a few years in business – Ok in truth, for the first 5 years we swirled around doing work for clients that asked!   This saw us mainly working in agriculture but also in education, health, economic development, tourism and sport!  And if I am to tell the truth probs a few more sectors as well.  During this time we also facilitated projects in a private prison and a public hospital kitchen!  

We are so excited here at RuralScope.  We turn 20 years old in 2020.  We are celebrating by sharing 20 stories across 20 months.  These will include highlights, lowlights and learnings.  A unique insight into our development - personal and business for you.  Our aim is to share learnings to support others who live and work across rural Australia.   

This is our sixth story in the series.  It’s all about the value of workplace-based learning, how leadership drives culture and how flexible facilitation wins every time.