Growing Successful Work Teams

Dates: Tuesdays, August 8 & 15

Time:   Noon-1 pm Eastern

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Identify your communication and management preferences and practical ways to use them to build and retain a successful and productive crew. In this two-part workshop, we will use the DiSC Workplace Profile to help you identify your unique communication and management preferences and explore ways that your preferences affect your strengths and stressors related to managing labor. The DiSC model provides a common language people can use to better understand themselves and those they interact with. We can use this knowledge to reduce conflict and improve working relationships.

Prior to the first session, participants will complete the online DiSC Workplace profile and receive their personalized report. In the first session (August 8), we will review our profiles and explore what they can tell us about the opportunities and challenges each of us brings to workplace interactions. In the second session (August 15). we will discuss strategies farm operators and managers can use to better communicate with, manage and supervise employees who may or may not share our work style preferences. Both sessions will include discussion of practical ways you can use to build and sustain a successful crew.

Fee: $35. There is a $35 participant fee for this workshop to help pay for the DiSC Workplace Profile. The Farm Labor Dashboard project is subsidizing the balance (approximately 60%) of the actual profile cost. After you register, we will send information about how to pay and complete enrollment in the workshop.  Because participants need to complete a self-assessment prior to the workshop, registration for each section of the workshop will close three business days before the first session on Thursday August 3.