Have you started your career in the Agri-food sector but wanting to move up the ladder? Starting at an entry level position can give you opportunities to grow and expand your knowledge of the business and of your role. Your determination to succeed and get the job done as well as the networks and connections you will build in your entry level position will help you to progress. Use this entry-level job as a launching space for your career and ultimate future goals. 

Interested in attending a virtual career fair and not sure what to do or what to expect? Join us for this informative webinar and learn tips and tricks of how to succeed at networking and finding a job at a virtual career fair! 

What does your current inclusion program look like? Do you have a strategy around inclusion and diversity in your workplace? 

Join us to learn more about strategies and programs that are working for other agri-food organizations. 

Join us for a panel discussion about the various opportunities available in the agri-food sector, from production to finance to marketing to engineering – there are so many roles that are involved in getting food from production through to the grocery store. 

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? 

Our goal as leaders is to create high performing teams in order to deliver exceptional results to the customers we serve. But creating a high performing team isn’t just about the process or the product, it’s about the people. Research continually shows that the highest performing teams have Psychological Safety, defined as “A belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes." 

To create Psychological Safety requires us to build high trusting relationships, especially between leaders and their team members. Take a deep dive into what Psychological Safety is, & its connection to trust, steps you can take to build high trusting teams, and tips for how you can repair a relationship where trust is gone. 

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.