Leading Employees

People are your most valuable asset. Learn how to engage employees and listen to them, so they’ll return the favour.

How do you coach a problem employee, and when and how do you let them go? Three human resources experts share their best advice.

Farm transition expert Elaine Froese on how to appreciate different working styles and respect how others approach work/life balance.

Human resources are important in a farm operation and producers know it.

Employee engagement is critical for new farm CEOs’ leadership, as well as for more established farm CEOs to inject new life into their labour force.

Family dynamics can play a huge role in what occurs in the family farm business.

How bringing in a neutral party like a facilitator can bring purpose, outcome and process to your next farm meeting.

Successful farmers know a farm vision provides focus and helps guide daily decisions. Creating the vision to propel a farm forward takes some time and thought, but experts say it’s well worth it.

Determining individual strengths and weaknesses and where everybody fits in a farm operation is a challenge that can be made easier with good interpersonal skills.

As second-generation winners of the B.C./Yukon Outstanding Young Farmer Award, it’s not what Brian and Jewel Pauls do to be successful, it’s how.