by Kristen Ireland | Apr 2, 2024 | Change, Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs
Welcome to our second blog post about succession planning—a hot topic that repeatedly came up at last year’s NGFA Country Elevator Conference. Attendees told us they needed guidance on moving their company forward when it came time to bid farewell to long-term...
by Kristen Ireland | Aug 18, 2020 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs
Every day, changes are announced. Changes in the environment, changes in the industry, changes in the business. In the agriculture industry, there are several trends, including mergers, acquisitions and passing the business onto the next generation. Some changes...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 2, 2020 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Hire and Keep the Right People, Uncategorized
Business owners often feel like they need to have all the answers. They want to get employees involved, but aren’t sure what that means or how to make that happen. They say things like “we need to figure things out first,” indicating they are either not including...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 2, 2020 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
Wow. the times are changing……and fast. We are bombarded with information (complete information overload), we have to process what this means to ourselves, our families, our employees, our businesses and our customers. In the car last night my 10 year...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 29, 2019 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals
Have you asked yourself this question? Each time you find yourself retraining an employee because employees say they don’t know, you’re thinking “I don’t have time for this!” or “I have so many other things I should be doing!” If so, chances are you may...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 22, 2019 | Flex to Meet Changing Business Needs, Focus Efforts on Business Goals, Hire and Keep the Right People
I am in a laundromat watching the dryer spinning and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a manager just this week. Yes, seriously…….I am at the laundromat AND it does remind me of giving feedback to employees. Sometimes they both can make my head hurt...
