When you think of conflict, what do you think of first, the cause or the effects? When you think about workplace conflict on your farm, what comes to your mind first – discomfort, embarrassment, tears, agitation, & frustration, or money being vacuumed right off your organization’s bottom line? When you think of workplace conflict resolution [...]
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As farmers we are often trapped by the unintended results of untested assumptions. After all we’ve been in business a while, maybe a long while, and we’ve been successful so far. Often that only means we’ve guessed right more often than we’ve been wrong. What’s the expression, “It’s better to be lucky that good?” Well [...]
Read More...When you think of conflict around the farm – what do you think of first? Is it the cause or the effects? When you think about workplace conflict – what comes to your mind first – discomfort, embarrassment, tears, agitation, & frustration, or money being vacuumed right off your organization’s bottom line? When you think [...]
Read More...In three decades working with farmers I have seen dozens and dozens of companies who harness conflict creatively. And in so doing get the most out of everyone as well as optimum results overall. They don’t waste time on what’s not working just because it was the bosses idea. They stop what they’re doing and [...]
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