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...
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 | Jul 5, 2022 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People
In our April blog, we wrote about why having engaged employees—folks who are happy, confident, and motivated at work—is good for productivity and retention. We noted that leaders directly influence workplace engagement and it’s up to managers and supervisors to ensure...
by Kristen Ireland | Apr 4, 2022 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People
There are plenty of things for ag business owners to lose sleep over these days, from the uncertainty of the war in Ukraine, unpredictable weather, and the cost of fertilizer to market fluctuations, a super-tight labor market, and the “Great Resignation” that’s...
