Managing Farm and Ranch Employees
Date
September 20-21, 2024
Fees
$300
Location
1730 W. Corral Ave
Kingsville, TX 78363
Attention Cattle Producers! Financial Assistance Avaliable
KRIRM’s Managing Farm & Ranch Employees Lectureship is approved for the NCBA Rancher Resilience Grant. This grant is designed to support cattle producer attendance at impactful educational events across the country. Please visit: https://www.ncba.org/producers/rancher-resilience-grant to find out the conditions to apply. Amounts approved are fixed for each event based on reimbursement of registration and housing costs.
Summary
Presentations will be simultaneously delivered in-person and online via a Zoom Webinar.
Managing farm and ranch employees is equally as important as managing livestock and natural resources. This lectureship teaches how to manage the people in the ranching business, including leadership, supervision, coaching and hiring. It is designed to build the skill-set of ranch managers so they can plan for, understand, and successfully lead current and future employees of the ranch.Learning Objectives
- Understand the value of identifying the future direction of the ranch and its workforce needs
- Build skills in developing position descriptions, establishing performance expectations, and employee accountability
- Learn effective recruitment, interviewing and hiring procedures
- Identify employee training and development needs
- Develop leadership skills for all workforce members
- Learn supervisory and coaching skills including motivating employees and providing feedback
- Understand labor laws impacting Ag worker employment
- Learn complexities and components of the total benefits package
Instructor
Bob Milligan, PhD • Senior Consultant, Dairy Strategies, LLC; Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
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