3. Management Skills and Team-Building

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Management Blueprint For Family Farming (November 1998)

How do you keep the peace, have family love and harmony and run a demanding business with family members? How do you keep business and family relationships straight? Do business conflicts ruin family togetherness? Can family togetherness interfere in resolving important problems in farm and ranch management? Here are six essential elements for running a successful multi-family or multi-generation family farm or ranch.

1. Selection of compatible partners. Not all children ...

Relationship Skills Important In Agriculture (February 1998)

Question. What do you think is the most important management tool for farmers and ranchers? Marketing? Precision farming? Financial analysis aided by computer applications? Diversification? Wrong!

Human relationship skills are what farmers and ranchers need to master in order to get to the next level of management. Why do I say this? Consider these factors:

- A happy marriage. A farmer who has an equal and mutually supportive relationship with his wife wi ...

Farming At The Next Level: Leading And Managing People (November 2000)

This article describes the biggest challenge facing farmers who are trying to farm as a scale that keeps them profitable. This means employing and managing employees and delegating major responsiblities to them.

What Makes A Winning Team (December 2001)

This article summarizes the principles of teambuilding and how they are integrated with each other. Organizations depend on leadership at the top to attend to the needs of the people involved as well as vision for the organization and effective ways of communicating ideas.

Are You A Leader? Take This Leadership Test (October 2002)

This article describes key attributes of leadership and offers brief questions to help people understand their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to leadership skills.

Management Principles In Family Farming (December 2002)

This article summarizes key observations Dr. Farmer makes about effective management in family farming and other family businesses.

Leading And Managing With Heart (February 2004)

This article describes important human relationship skills in building an effective organization. These skills create teamwork and high levels on motivation from group members.

Four Challenges Of Family Farming (March 2005)

This article outlines four major hurdles to overcome in multi-family farming.

What It Takes To Be A Leader (February 2007)

This article summarizes the lates research on leadership, particularly the theory of Robert Sternberg of Yale University.

How Farmers Can Be Effective Leaders (December 2007)

This article describes the qualites of leadership that farmers need to have as they lead the human resources in their family operations and contribute to the community.

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	Val Farmer 35 Years of Counseling Rural Topics I. Family Farming and Ranching 3. Management Skills and Team-Building Login Articles Management Blueprint For Family Farming (November 1998) How do you keep the peace, have family love and harmony and run a demanding business with family members? How do you keep business and family relationships straight? Do business conflicts ruin family togetherness? Can family togetherness interfere in resolving important problems in farm and ranch management? Here are six essential elements for running a successful multi-family or multi-generation family farm or ranch. 1. Selection of compatible partners. Not all children ... Relationship Skills Important In Agriculture (February 1998) Question. What do you think is the most important management tool for farmers and ranchers? Marketing? Precision farming? Financial analysis aided by computer applications? Diversification? Wrong! Human relationship skills are what farmers and ranchers need to master in order to get to the next level of management. Why do I say this? Consider these factors: - A happy marriage. A farmer who has an equal and mutually supportive relationship with his wife wi ... Farming At The Next Level: Leading And Managing People (November 2000) This article describes the biggest challenge facing farmers who are trying to farm as a scale that keeps them profitable. This means employing and managing employees and delegating major responsiblities to them. What Makes A Winning Team (December 2001) This article summarizes the principles of teambuilding and how they are integrated with each other. Organizations depend on leadership at the top to attend to the needs of the people involved as well as vision for the organization and effective ways of communicating ideas. Are You A Leader? Take This Leadership Test (October 2002) This article describes key attributes of leadership and offers brief questions to help people understand their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to leadership skills. Management Principles In Family Farming (December 2002) This article summarizes key observations Dr. Farmer makes about effective management in family farming and other family businesses. Leading And Managing With Heart (February 2004) This article describes important human relationship skills in building an effective organization. These skills create teamwork and high levels on motivation from group members. Four Challenges Of Family Farming (March 2005) This article outlines four major hurdles to overcome in multi-family farming. What It Takes To Be A Leader (February 2007) This article summarizes the lates research on leadership, particularly the theory of Robert Sternberg of Yale University. How Farmers Can Be Effective Leaders (December 2007) This article describes the qualites of leadership that farmers need to have as they lead the human resources in their family operations and contribute to the community. Next Page