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Talent Management Evolves; Requires Deeper Understanding

June 1, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
Source: Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business
It seems that this is how talent management tends to go on many farms and in many food and agribusiness firms today. We’ve done a job for so long, we’ve forgotten what it’s like to not know how to do it. When the boss ahead of us gets promoted, we move up too. Then we hire replacements, “set them on the tractor” and tell them to go do good things. As long as the employee does good things, we stay out of the way. When mistakes are made, we scramble to fix them and admonish the employee to do it right next time.
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10 Job Interview Questions to Stop Asking (and What to Ask Instead)

May 25, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
Source: Sophia Bernazzani, HubSpot
A quick Google Search for job interview questions brings up some of the most common asks you might have already answered 20 times over the course of your career. They’re popular, but that doesn’t mean they’re good questions. In fact, they could be hurting your chances of the candidate accepting an offer.
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Increasing Parts Sales in Your Dealership [Webinar]

By Kim Schmidt posted on April 25, 2017 | Posted in Department Management
In the current Agricultural market, there is added pressure on parts departments to increase sales and margins. In this webinar, WEDA Dealer Institute trainer Kelly Mathison shared methods that will help you set goals for increasing parts sales in your dealership and managers to engage parts staff in contributing to the process. We will also identify 5 key areas to increase sales.  [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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