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Empower your farm team: Last in a series
Here are 9 ways to engage your team.
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Helping your farm team members become fully engaged means defining the expectations of everyone involved, using goals to establish priorities, and ensuring everyone is committed to the mission, vision and values of the farm. How can you take a similar approach with your team?
Have a clear vision for the farm and yourself.
Hire only the best employees based on their attitudes, attributes and behaviors.
Provide the structure, tools and training for each employee to be the most efficient at his or her job.
Create a system where employees self-manage. Have them set their own goals and empower them to do the jobs with full accountability back to the other employees.
Continuously look for ways to move low-level tasks and operations off your CEO desk and toward employees. Over time this can include shopping for chemicals, handling parts inventory and maintaining schedules.
Put people in charge of areas where they have shown a knack as well as passion.
Give the employees a voice. Ask, “What do you think?” Don’t tell employees how to think or how to do the job, but rather solicit their input. Get employees to think for themselves by asking questions.
Have short-, intermediate- and long-term plans that are fully transparent and shared with employees. This allows them to see the full picture and how they contribute to the plan’s success.
Educate and invest in employees.
Tim Schaefer is an executive management coach for farms and agribusinesses.
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