Growing Successful Work Teams

The Growing Successful Work Teams two-part workshop will be offered three times in January 2023. The same content will be covered in each section. Please select the section that best fits in your schedule. (All times are Eastern Time). Click here for more information.

• Section a: Saturdays January 7 & 14 at 2:30 pm, registration closes January 4 at noon ET
• Section b: Thursdays, January 12 & 19 at noon, registration closes January 9 at noon ET.
• Section c: Tuesdays, Jan. 17 & 24, at 6 pm ET, registration closes January 12 at noon ET.

Any business has a mix of personality types to manage. In this two-part, small-group workshop, we will use the DiSC Workplace Profile, to help you identify your unique communication and management preferences and explore ways that your preferences impact how you hire and retain employees. 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.

Participants will complete the online DiSC Workplace Profile and will receive their personalized report before the first session. In the first session (week one) we will review our personal workplace profiles and what they can tell us about the opportunities and challenges of hiring, training and retaining employees. In the second session, we will discuss strategies farm operators and managers can use to better communicate and manage employees, customers, and family members who may, or may not, share your work style preferences. Each session will focus on practical ways you can use what you’ve learned to build a more successful crew for the coming season.

Instructor: Mary Peabody, UVM Extension Professor Emeritus, Community & Economic Development

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