Workshops

From legally required annual meetings to morning huddles, there’s real power, productive actions, and positive results when meetings are done correctly. In this insightful presentation, your business team will learn to plan and lead from an agenda, understand the need to check your business structure documents for compliance, receive a list of common agenda items of an annual meeting, and learn the purpose and plan behind monthly management meetings and brief morning huddles. 

Jolene's been called agriculture's version of Dr. Phil. Her 30+ years of working with farm families have taught her valuable lessons of what works…and what doesn't. In this insightful and fun-filled session, she’ll address the most frequently asked family business questions and share five behaviors of successful legacy businesses. You will learn that it requires intentional work to make a good family business even better!

You can prevent many daily aggravations and family business catastrophes if you pay attention and learn from the mistakes of others. This workshop is packed with real life examples and valuable take-home tools.

This upbeat, interactive workshop taps into lessons from successful legacy business leaders and managers. Attendees will learn how to honor their family while building and transitioning their business to the next generation.

Family businesses need to take a cue from the third Little Pig and build a solid foundation, brick by brick. As the carpenter of your family business, you receive the “bricks” needed to withstand the “wolves” of challenges and surprises that are knocking at your family business door.

We balance soil fertility, feed rations, and our checkbooks — but we overwork, overwhelm, and overload ourselves. It’s time to bring renewal and balance to our work and family lives with valuable content, real-life examples, and a whole lot of fun.

What do you say to tough questions from John Q. Public, the media, government officials, and skeptical urban friends? In this participatory session, you’ll learn how to “set the stage” and use questions — even tough ones — to share your key messages as a champion of the agriculture industry.

In this fun-filled workshop, you’ll take a look at your service through your customer’s eyes. You’ll figure out how to keep them… and why they go. You’ll discover that exceeding expectations and meeting today’s needs create loyalty and increase your value.