Improving Communications

Improving Communications

Washington Ag Today is presented by AMMO. I’m Lacy Gray

Growers and producers will have four opportunities at four different locations to attend a workshop geared towards helping them have effective communications within their family farming business on January 28, 29, 30, and 31st. The full day “Improving Family Business Communications” workshop being offered by AMMO, will be conducted by Colorado State University agricultural and business management economists Rod Sharp and Jeffrey Tranel. Sharp highlights some of the topics to be covered.

SHARP: I’ll do a lot of the talking about how to build and improve farm family relationships. As part of that I’ll be going through steps to talk about how to develop a productive team, about some of the basic communication skills that people can use, and we’re going to talk a little bit about some methods and tools for resolving conflict.

Along with such topics as conflict resolution and overcoming communication obstacles the workshop will cover helping farm families transition the business utilizing the “Lasting Legacy Course” that Sharp and Tranel have developed. Tranel explains.

TRANEL: “Lasting Legacy” is a four pillar program that starts with how do you share and distribute your personal possessions, how do you share and document values and life lessons that the elder generation wishes to pass on to the next generation, as well as sharing and documenting of end of life issues, finally ending with distributing financial assets and real estate. Not so much as how to do these things, as how much as the communications of those things between family members.

For workshop locations and information visit AMMO’s website at lcammo.org.

That’s Washington Ag Today presented by AMMO. I’m Lacy Gray on the Ag Information Network.