Employment Masterclass with Nollaig Heffernan

Join internationally renowned management consultant Nollaig Heffernan to learn how to take the people aspect of your business to the next level.

Honing your people management skills has many benefits. Whether you are looking to expand, increase productivity, work with the next generation, take time away from the business, develop your farm team or simply wish to ensure you are achieving best employment practice, this event is for you!

Nollaig will share her insights and experiences on how developing this part of your business can significantly improve the performance of your farm, your people and yourself.

Topics covered on the day include:

Effective Communication

Communication is the super glue of all human relationships a farm team is no different. Improving the quality of your influencing, communication and negotiation skills has many benefits that run deep into your business, not least when getting the best from your employees.

Having difficult conversations is something most people shy away from, Nollaig will discuss how to have these tricky discussions in a calm, objective and constructive way.

Strengthen Your Team for Success

There is hidden potential in all of us and one of the dairy industrys biggest opportunities lies in helping employees to realise theirs. Community, belonging and direction create a powerful platform for people to perform at their best and for your business to thrive through your staff.

Managing People and Relationships

Managing people in any business is about understanding who is affected by or can affect decisions being made. Learning who needs to be kept well informed and who is an energy vampire is the difference between stress free and stressful relationships. Nollaig will provide insights and solutions into how to strategically manage those around you to the benefit of all parties.

Retention

Contrary to general thinking, it is not large remuneration and impressive employment packages that keeps employees where they are, but rather the small things that often seem trivial to the employer. Nollaig will provide many examples of how businesses can start to lay solid foundations for retention at minimal pain and expense to themselves and their business resulting in substantial long-term gain.

Effective Rostering and Time Management

The ability to review and adjust the workload based on time available is a learnable skillset and one of the workshops Nollaig most frequently delivers to dairy farmers. Come along to reconsider your relationship with time and to learn how easy it is to liberate time with knowledge dairy farmers already possess.

Pulling it all together and becoming an Employer of Choice

Pulling together the topics of the day, Nollaig show how being a good employer is achievable for all. It does not mean learning a new skillset but rather drawing on and fine-tuning the skills dairy farmers already have in abundance.

Morning tea and lunch provided.