The Hiring Process Doesn’t End When You Say “You’re Hired”
In our ag businesses, we spend a lot of time building our teams. Recruiting, interviewing, making hiring decisions. There are many critical steps in the interview process. We identify the role we need to fill, recruit...
Your Succession Planning Reality Check: A 5-Question Checklist
At the 2023 NGFA Country Elevator Conference, succession planning was the hot topic. Everyone was talking about it - the panels, the hallway conversations, the concerns keeping leaders up at night. ...
Why SMART Goals Aren’t Enough: The Missing Pieces of Effective Goal Cascading
It's that time of year. Q4 wraps up with leadership teams finalizing business goals for the coming year, and now as we move into Q1, those goals cascade down to employees. If you're like most...
Why Chickens Don’t Fly: The Leadership Development Dilemma
Picture this: A group of chickens on a farm notices eagles soaring gracefully overhead. One ambitious chicken declares, "I want to learn to fly like an eagle!" He convinces his fellow chickens to join him at "eagle school"...
Two Powerful Steps for Leading Successful Change in Your Agribusiness
As leaders in agriculture, we're constantly navigating change—whether it's implementing new technology, adjusting to market shifts, or reorganizing our teams. While change is never easy, there are two key areas where small...
“What Do I Do Now?” The Quiet Challenge CEOs Face When They’re No Longer the “Do-er” in Chief
“I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to do now. If I get into some of the day-to-day tasks, I’ll get in my team's way and create a bottleneck.” A client shared this concern on a call a few weeks ago. During our...
STAR 5: Power Up Your People Practices to Build and Acquire the Skills You Need
You know by now that we love using Jay R. Galbraith’s Star Model ™ as a simple, practical framework to help our clients keep their businesses aligned and humming across key areas: strategy, structure, process, and rewards...
STAR Part 4: How Strategic Incentive Plans Reward Your Teams AND Boost Your Business
If you’ve been following along with this five-part blog series, you know that in successful companies, all business functions are aligned and operating as a single, interrelated, interdependent system. Because if even one...
STAR Part 3: Improve Your Business Processes to Power Up Productivity and Growth
Welcome to the third article in our five-part series using Jay R. Galbraith’s Star Model ™ as a framework to ensure your business is aligned across five areas: strategy, structure, process, rewards, and people. Here, we...