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...
by Kristen Ireland | Jul 2, 2024 | Company Culture, Focus Efforts on Business Goals
Do any of these frustrations sound familiar? “By the end of the day, my to-do list is longer than when I started.” “I’m constantly putting out fires and reacting to problems. I have no time to focus and strategize.” “My employees work hard, yet we’re not making...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 4, 2023 | Company Culture
We’ve been on the road a lot these past few weeks, attending and presenting at conferences like GEAPS and MGFA. After countless conversations with ag and feed leaders, it’s clear they’re VERY interested in creating a company culture that ensures their businesses and...
