This interactive workshop focuses on employee
recruitment, including how to develop a pool
of qualified applicants, recruitment methods,
and advertising. Participants will examine
the process of choosing the best person for
the job by using 5 common selection tools as
well as avoiding selection errors
that can result from bias
or discrimination. Small-business
examples are used to illustrate
key recruitment and selection
practices.
Registration Information Workshop
size from 25 to 75 persons. Costs will include
teaching materials and speaker
expenses, plus costs at your
location. A fee of around
$59 per person is suggested.
Audience Farm, horticultural,
or other small-business managers, especially
those responsible for recruitment and hiring.
By Attending You Will • Learn
how to attract a viable pool of candidates for
your position
• Understand effective interviewing techniques
• Learn a process for choosing the best
candidate for the job
Teaching Format Participative
workshop with 4 hours of learning.
Contact Information Contact
Tom Maloney (607-255-1628;
trm5@cornell.edu)
for more information and to schedule a date
for your workshop.
Managing
the Multicultural Workforce
This course
helps the participant develop
the knowledge and skills necessary
to effectively lead and manage
a multicultural workforce.
In recent years, the opportunity
for agricultural and horticultural
employers to hire Hispanic
employees has increased. This
opportunity has also created
management challenges, including
cross-cultural understanding,
supervising across cultures,
understanding motivational
factors, community relations,
and creating an effective
multicultural team. This seminar
provides practical solutions
to these challenges.
Registration Information Workshop
size from 25 to 75 persons. Costs will include
materials and speaker costs,
plus costs at your location.
A fee of around $59 per person
is suggested.
Audience Farm, horticultural,
agribusiness, or other small-business managers
who supervise Hispanic employees.
By Attending You Will • Develop an understanding
of cultural differences
• Understand how to supervise
people from Hispanic cultures
• Learn the steps for developing a multicultural team
• Understand the importance
of community acceptance
Teaching Format Participative
workshop with 4 to 8 hours of learning.
Contact Information Contact
Tom Maloney (607-255-1628;
trm5@cornell.edu)
for more information and to schedule a date
for your workshop.
Optimizing
Communication to Optimize Performance
This program focuses on basic interpersonal
communication with a heavy emphasis on listening
and nonverbal communication. Through self-disclosure
instruments, participants will evaluate their
own communication strengths and weaknesses,
and develop a plan to improve their communication
skills.
Registration Information Workshop
size is from 20 to 50 persons. Costs will include
materials, speaker expenses,
plus costs at your location.
A fee of around $69 per person
is suggested.
Audience Farm, agribusiness,
or other small-business owners, managers, or
employees.
Instructor: David Grusenmeyer, senior extension associate,
PRO-DAIRY
human resource specialist.
By Attending You Will • Understand
the complexities of interpersonal communication
• Learn the importance of building an environment
of openness and trust, and how to do it
• Evaluate your communication strengths
and weaknesses, and develop a roadmap to improve
your communication skills
• Explore a number of nonverbal barriers
to effective listening and communicating, and
how to be aware of them and structure situations
to minimize their impact
• Discover the power of "I" vs. "You"
messages
• Learn the importance and the impact of
emotion on listening and communicating, and
how to recognize an emotional response and how
to manage and minimize it
• Be exposed to a variety of self-facilitated
communication techniques to help you get through
difficult communications with family, friends,
bosses, co-workers or employees
Teaching Format Participative
workshop with 5 to 7 hours of learning.
Contact Information Contact
David Grusenmeyer (607-255-0756 ; dcg10@cornell.edu)
with questions or to schedule a date for your
workshop.
Motivation
Through Feedback
Description Responsibility,
accountability, and feedback are key to developing
star performers. This program focuses on the
use of all 3 and especially on feedback to motivate
employees to achieve peak performance.
Registration Information Workshop
size is from 20 to 50 persons. Costs will include
materials, speaker expenses,
plus costs at your location.
A fee of around $49 per person
is suggested.
Audience Farm, agribusiness,
or other small-business owners, managers, or
employees, especially those who have supervisory
responsibilities.
Instructor David Grusenmeyer,
senior extension associate,
PRO-DAIRY
human resource specialist.
By Attending You Will • Learn
the importance and the impact of positive expectations
for yourself and others
• Discover the power of the Pygmalion Effect
and its impact on people around us
• Recognize SMART goals as the first step
to establishing expectations and learn the key
components of an action plan to achieve goals
• Understand what creates and then maintains
desired behavior
• Become aware of how targets or quotas
should be set to capitalize on them as motivators
• Discover the 4 truths about behavioral
consequences
• Learn 9 important things managers need
to know about providing reinforcing feedback
• Understand how to use a partial budget
model to help organize and manage consequences
for employee behavior
Teaching Format Half-day workshop
with 3 to 4 hours of learning.
Contact Information Contact David Grusenmeyer (607-255-0756
; dcg10@cornell.edu)
with questions or to schedule a date for your workshop.
Situational
Leadership
Managers need to use directing, coaching,
supporting, or delegating leadership styles,
depending on the situation. This workshop will
teach leaders how to analyze a situation and
determine which leadership style is most appropriate.
Followers have different leadership needs in
different situations, and this program provides
them the skill and confidence to ask for the
desired leadership style.
Registration Information Workshop
size is from 20 to 50 persons. Costs will include
materials, leader behavior analysis, speaker
expenses, plus costs at your location. A fee
of around $79 per person is suggested.
Audience Farm, agribusiness,
or other small-business owners, managers, or
employees. It is highly recommended that both
managers and their employees attend this workshop
together.
Instructor David Grusenmeyer,
senior extension associate,
PRO-DAIRY
human resource specialist.
By Attending You Will • Discover your tendencies for expectations of other
people from a Theory X/Theory Y management perspective
• Analyze your leader behaviors in specific situations
to identify your default leadership style, how easily you
shift from one style to another, and the extent to which
you use the most appropriate leadership style for the situation
• Learn what are directive and supportive behaviors
in a leader
• Realize the importance of situation diagnosis and
flexibility as leadership skills
• Understand the 4 development stages that everyone
goes through in learning any new task or skill
• Recognize the 4 primary
leadership styles and what
a leader actually does when
they are using each of the
4 styles
• Learn how to match the appropriate leadership style
to an individual’s development level
• Understand how to contract
with employees for the leadership
style they believe they need
Teaching Format Participative
workshop with 6 to 8 hours of learning.
Contact Information Contact
David Grusenmeyer (607-255-0756 ; dcg10@cornell.edu)
with questions or to schedule a date for your
workshop.
