Produced by University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and University of Vermont Extension, the Farm Manager video series is six short video lessons (about 5 minutes each) on key aspects of managing employees on farms. Topics include:
- Training Your Employees: Training your crews to do their jobs effectively from the start is a key way to avoid problems later. This short video shares a variety of practical strategies for effectively training farm employees so that they contribute to the success of the farm.
- Reference Checks: This video shares tips for how to use reference checks to learn more about a prospective job applicant. You'll learn about the kinds of information that can be gained through a reference check, its limitations, and how to incorporate it in your overall assessment of an applicant.
- Providing Feedback to Employees: This video provides strategies for providing feedback to farm employees that is motivational and leads to performance improvements.
- Dealing with Problems in the Workplace: This video addresses how to identify and deal with workplace problems. University of New Hampshire's Pat McCabe provides practical advice on how to diagnose a problem and its causes, and then how to work with employees to resolve it.
- Preventing Descrimination and Sexual Harrassment: This video describes strategies to prevent discrimination and harassment on your farm, as well as how to identify and handle instances of each if they occur.
- Ending Employment: This video shares a process farmers can use to end employment legally and professionally.