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 | Nov 13, 2025 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Picture this: A group of chickens on a farm notices eagles soaring gracefully overhead. One ambitious chicken declares, “I want to learn to fly like an eagle!” He convinces his fellow chickens to join him at “eagle school” for two intensive...
by Kristen Ireland | Aug 5, 2025 | Leadership
“I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to do now. If I get into some of the day-to-day tasks, I’ll get in my team’s way and create a bottleneck.” A client shared this concern on a call a few weeks ago. During our partnership over the last eight months, this...
by Kristen Ireland | May 8, 2025 | Leadership, Productivity & Growth
Welcome to the third article in our five-part series using Jay R. Galbraith’s Star Model ™ as a framework to ensure your business is aligned across five areas: strategy, structure, process, rewards, and people. Here, we explore why process is an important aspect of...
