Download Article: 10 Tips on People Management in Agriculture

Attracting and retaining employees can be a challenging exercise and as competition for labour increases, there is a need to professionalise the approach to people management on farms. Here, Rural Directions share with us 10 tips on people management in agriculture:

1) Define the roles in your business with an organisation chart

2) Develop job descriptions

3) Ensuring occupational safety and health

4) Formalise the management of people

5) Organise inductions

6) Create agreements on working relationships

7) Provide training and supervision

Create checklist on systems and procedures

9) Record keeping

10) Reward efforts

This is an abstract from Rural Direction’s article on “10 Tips on People Management in Australia”. If you are interested to read the full article, you can download the article here.

About Rural Directions

Rural Directions Pty Ltd is an agribusiness consultancy company, specialising in the areas of:

• Business Planning
• Benchmarking
• Succession Planning and Family Business Management
• Strategic Planning
• Whole Farm Planning and Land Management
• Crop and Livestock Production
• Agronomic advice
• Farm Budgeting and Business Management
• Grain Marketing
• Project Management
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Workshop delivery

David Heinjus , Managing Director at Rural Directions, will be speaking at the Agriculture Investment Summit Asia on the topic “Evaluating new opportunities in the Australian agriculture landscape”. Don’t forget to join us at the event held in Singapore from 16-17 October 2012, where more than 200 agriculture industry professionals gather to discuss strategies and form new partnerships. You can download the programme here.