Negotiations & Conversation Skills

How do you change the organization
without loosing who you are?

IDEAL FOR:

General Ag audiences, Farm Bureaus, Co-ops, Families struggling with transitioning the farm.

Overview:

Organizations and family farms face a grave challenge: how do you adapt to stay fresh and vibrant without losing the core values that has made you valuable? The leadership of the past knew what it took to get people together to accomplish larger goals. However, never before has there been so much cultural change between one generation to the next. What worked before, isn’t working now.

The longtime members of an organization are slow to give up control because they know the work it took to make this complex organization function and the young feel like there isn’t a seat at the table, so they aren’t showing up. Institutions that have thrived for generations are breaking down.

How does an organization resolve this tension?

In this thought provoking talk, international communication expert, Vance Crowe, will describe the challenge so that everyone realizes how serious of a problem this is, and then will teach the communication skills that will help institutions build a culture of succession planning across generations, one where there is open dialogue and a willingness to learn from traditional and new ways of thinking.

The audience will learn

1. How to differentiate between borrowed and earned power so that you can get young people engaged without risking the organization.

2. Why planned mentorship programs fall short, and what your organization can do to pass on the informal knowledge.

3. How to position your organization to involve younger people that fits with their modern lives.

Why is this talk special?

Vance has interviewed more than 100 people for Legacy Interviews. During these conversations he has learned about why transitioning a farm or organization is so difficult and what the next generation needs to do to build trust and be ready to have farms and organizations passed down.