by Kristen Ireland | Jul 8, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership
You gave clear direction to your team. And what came back was late, half-done, or just a mess. And then you probably did what a lot of good leaders do in that situation. You sighed, and you fixed it. You told...
by Kristen Ireland | Jun 22, 2026 | Company Culture, Feedback, Leadership
We’ll do a lot to avoid one honest conversation — so why is that? When people find out what I do for a living, the question comes fast. “Hey, can I ask you something? How would you handle this?” Out comes the story. An...
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 | Jun 5, 2025 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People, Productivity & Growth
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 aspect of your organization is out of whack,...
by Kristen Ireland | Sep 3, 2024 | Company Culture, Feedback, Hire and Keep the Right People, Leadership
We developed the People + Strategy Roadmap to identify areas of misalignment that curb our clients’ business success. An important aspect of this process is ensuring business systems truly support and square with the big-picture goals of the company. One area of...
by Kristen Ireland | Aug 6, 2024 | Alignment, Company Culture
In last month’s blog, we acknowledged how many times we’ve heard agribusiness owners and leaders vent their frustrations about being constantly busy but never making much headway. It’s tough! We offered two strategies—tying business goals to behavior and being...
