“Farm and Ranch Leadership in the 21st Century” featuring  Bob Milligan

Register Here: https://ecommerce.montana.edu/ranchmanagement/

Please register by September 14th to receieve materials prior to class

• Interactive virtual workshop with other Ag professionals
• Discuss improving hiring, training, and retaining good employees in today’s world

Virtual Agenda

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

12:30 PM.  Leadership for the Third Decade of the 2020s

• Today likely is the greatest opportunity for leadership in your lifetime – the story
• Listening is key to developing trust
• Leadership today is different from management and from our past view of leadership
• Vision answers the question “WHY are we doing this?”
• Business (ranch) culture – increasingly important

2:00 PM  Break

2:30 PM  Hiring great employees

• A preferred employer
• Preparing to hire – job descriptions and competencies
• Recruitment
• Selection
• Onboarding

4:00 PM  Adjourn

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

12:30 PM  Today’s Supervisor is a Leader and a Coach

• Motivated and engaged workforce members require choice, connection, and competence
• Leadership styles
• Supervision is leadership and coaching – hero, villain, victim

2:00 PM  Break

2:30 PM  Supervisory skills

• Clarity: “chalking the field”
• Quality feedback – positive, redirection, negative
• Reinforcing success – positivity, appreciation, encouragement

4:00 PM  Begin implementing what you have learned