Are you considering hiring employees that are new to Agriculture? Is it important to your organization for them to have a stronger knowledge of the agri-food industry? What should you do to help them to develop the knowledge of the industry so that they can understand the customers and clients they will be serving? 

Internships are a great resource for building an engaged pipeline of talent for your organization. Getting your internship program right is critical.

This two-part virtual e-workshop for just $299 is an optimal method to keep up-to-speed with the ins and outs of today's students and their desires for an internship. Discover the pandemic’s impact on internship programs, and how you can adjust your program.

Part 1: ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ of Successful Internship Programs
Thursday, March 3: 10-11 am Central

Part 2: Preparing Managers for a Successful Internship
Friday, March 4: 10-11 am Central
 

The trend toward remote working began long ago, but the pandemic has accelerated it, leaving the world of work forever changed. The migration to virtual work has caused unique and unforeseen challenges for leaders, especially in performance management. Peak performance is directly correlated to specific leadership and operational practices, but poor performance can arise even when these are well executed. In this workshop, we will explore both the core leadership strategies that lead to high performance and how to address underperforming remote workers.

Learning Objectives:

• How to establish clarity at the organization, team, and individual level
• Setting effective goals and aligning them for success
• Feedback and performance management best practices
• Correcting poor performance

Hiring managers are usually able to gather an accurate picture of a candidate’s hard skills on paper and in an interview. However, soft skills can be a bit more challenging to gauge. And, as is often the case, they can be the most important to foresee ahead of time in order to make a great hire that will help your business succeed. What are the tactics you can employ in an interview to make sure you are uncovering shining soft skills key to your open role and organizational success?

This continued learning webinar will help improve your interviewing technique as well as sharpen your ability to determine the best hires. Get inspiration for more revealing behavioral-based interview questions that will help expose soft skills (or lack thereof) as well as how to craft follow-up questions. Explore other methods to uncover soft skills in the interview, such as assessments and non-traditional interview tactics.

Engaged employees are enthusiastic and fully involved in their work, performing to benefit the organization. Keeping employees engaged should be a top priority in the typical workplace, but the increase in remote workers creates even more challenges for employers. From afar, how do you really know how your employees feel, what they’re accomplishing, and their job satisfaction?  

In this webinar, presenter Claudio Toyama discusses how employers can assess off-site workers' employee engagement, methods to improve remote workers' engagement, effective communication practices, talent management recommendations, and maintaining an engaged workforce. 

Learning Objectives: 

· What is employee engagement 

· Measuring employee engagement 

· Engagement pitfalls of remote/virtual workers 

· Methods to improve remote worker en