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Dr. Helen Wojcinski, DVM DVSc ACPV, Science & Sustainability Manager, Hybrid Turkeys, shoes what happens when you get thrust into the media light based on undercover videos.
Dr. Wojcinski's timeline is a great case study in how media can work against you and what preparations people in agriculture need to accomplish. Key take away: Obtain training before a real media event occurs. Even if it is for a little bit, that preparation can save you and your livelihood.
Agriculture is all about predicting the future and making decisions. What is available to help?
Protect, Prepare and Prevent: Securing Your Farm and Your Reputation - Tom Conley, CPP, CISM, CMAS, President and CEO, The Conley Group, Inc., Cindy Cunningham, National Pork Board, from the 2013 World Pork Expo, June 5 - 7, 2013, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Tom Conley, CPP, CISM, CMAS, President and CEO, The Conley Group, Inc., Cindy Cunningham, National Pork Board, present information on crisis planning and offer a tool kit to address the bad things that can happen to good people.
All businesses need to think of the future and develop their leadership.
Center for Creative Leadership, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Jolene Brown, CSP, (@JoleneBrownCSP, and JoleneBrown.com), shares some tips on working with family in your family business.
- Hire family members well; darn hard to fire them.
- Just cause u want 2, does not mean u get 2. Being part of fam biz is not a birthright.
- Need solid financial analysis 2 make sure net enough $$ 2 add more fam employees. All want paycheck.
- Besides production/marketing advisors you need 4 strong advisors for mngtment, leadership, ownership.
- Family business not a place to rehabilitate a family member.
- Don't even mention the "golden child!" There are requirements for chosing the next leader!
- At least 50% of retirement income comes from a source outside of family business.
- With biz documents, treat family like strangers, or they may become strangers.
- Working for a non-family boss is not only smart...it is a prerequisitie for a Biz-1st-Family.
- Know the total compensation pkg, not just salary. No hiding of "perks" in a Biz-1st Family!
- If achievement of ur goal depends on assets others have, they need to have the same goal.
- Hope is not a good business strategy!
- Sometimes you just need a good 2x4!
- A code of conduct in a fam biz means nothing w/o means to hold people to account.
- When you put a fam vacation on the calendar, eyes light up. U have just said they r as impt as the biz.
- Money does not pay an emotional debt.
- Do not put you buy/sell in the will. There are other ways to exit than death.
- When ur children c you working hard, do they know what u r working 4? Define ur mission.
- Never hire a family member ur not willing to fire!
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