by Kristen Ireland | May 29, 2026 | Feedback, Leadership
Slips in employee engagement don’t show up randomly. They show up during your busiest seasons and that’s not a coincidence. Why Busy Season Is the Danger Zone for Engagement Think about what happens to your...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 22, 2026 | Leadership
Tariffs. Fertilizer prices. Fuel costs. A global conflict with an unknown end. If you’re leading in the ag industry right now, your world feels uncertain. Your team feels it too. In a leadership training...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 20, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership
Spring planting season is weeks away. The phone starts ringing before 6am. Your team will be pulling long days. Customers will be impatient. That’s not the time to figure out if your people know what’s expected of...
by Kristen Ireland | Feb 11, 2026 | Hire and Keep the Right People, onboarding
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 applicants, and go through rounds of...
by Kristen Ireland | Jan 21, 2026 | Change, Hire and Keep the Right People
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. I went back in 2025. Guess...
