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Articles by Bernie Erven

How to build employee accountability

December 12, 2016
Bernie Erven
Are your employees content just being responsible for doing their assigned tasks? Have they moved on to feeling accountable for the outcomes their efforts generate? Many producers would likely respond “No” to these questions, even while thinking, “How nice that would be.”
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Hiring the right person versus filling a position

June 10, 2016
Bernie Erven
Is hiring an opportunity or just a headache? A dairy farmer desperate to hire someone told me that he looked out his kitchen window and said to himself, “If that person who just drove in the driveway makes it to the door and knocks, he is hired.”
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How to become a better boss

March 11, 2016
Bernie Erven
Are dairy managers more likely to ask how they can improve as a boss or how they can find better employees? My experience suggests that dairy farm managers are more likely to focus on finding employees. The question reminds me of a recent visit I had with a dairy farm manager.
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Hiring quality family and non-family employees

September 30, 2013
Bernie Erven

Hiring and keeping quality employees is absolutely necessary if high profitability, growth and productivity are to have any chance of becoming a reality.

Failure to find needed employees threatens the business. Inviting family members into the farm business who do not fit or meet a clear need is as damaging as hiring a non-family member who does not fit.

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