AEM101 | Me and My Farm - January 2025
Agricultural English Mentorship (AEM)
AEM 101 | Me and My Farm — January 2025
A 6-week course designed for Spanish-speaking agricultural workers to improve their English skills through pre-recorded
video lessons, personalized live Zoom instruction, and a dedicated mentorship
within their farm.
This is a beginning English course that focuses on their English
pronunciation helping them to know how to say and spell out names and places in
their area correctly, and understanding the mission statements, history and
vision of their farm. This is a mentorship course that requires an English
speaker from their farm sign up with each participant to ensure individualized
success specific to each farm
AEM 101 | Yo y mi rancho — enero de 2025
Un curso de 6 semanas diseñado específicamente para
trabajadores agrícolas de habla hispana para mejorar sus habilidades en inglés
a través de lecciones en video pregrabadas, instrucción personalizada en vivo
por Zoom y una mentoría dedicada dentro de su rancho.
Este es un curso de inglés para principiantes que se enfoca en la pronunciación, ayudando a pronunciar y deletrear los nombres y lugares de su área correctamente, así como en entender las declaraciones de misión, la historia y la visión de su rancho. Este curso de mentoría requiere que un hablante de inglés de su rancho se inscriba con cada participante para asegurar un éxito individualizado específico de cada rancho.
Staffing and Organizing Your Team - January 2025
Agricultural Supervisory Leadership (ASL)
ASL104 | Staffing and Organizing your Team. Finding the right employees to work on your farm can pose many challenges but hiring the wrong person can be costly! In Staffing and Organizing your Team, you will learn the benefits of professionalizing your Human Resource systems and becoming a preferred employer. Learn how to recruit a candidate pool to find the right employees, and how to avoid bias and discrimination in hiring. You will also learn how to improve your interview and selection process, and how to implement a strong onboarding program. This six-week online course is part of Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development’s Agricultural Supervisory Leadership certificate program. It is appropriate for new and experienced farm managers.Topics:
- Becoming a preferred employer
- Personnel planning
- Job descriptions
- Avoiding bias and discrimination
- Recruiting and interviewing
- The selection process
- Hiring and onboarding
Course instructors:
- Richard Stup, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development Specialist
- Elizabeth Higgins, Ag Business Management/Production Economics Specialist, CCE ENY Commercial Horticulture Team
- Bob Milligan, Cornell University Professor Emeritus
- Kaitlyn Lutz, Dairy Management Specialist, CCE Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops
- Libby Eiholzer, Dairy Technical Services Specialist, Cargill
ASL102-SP | Liderar para obtener resultados de calidad -- noviembre 2024
Liderazgo en Supervisión Agrícola (ASL-SP) | Agricultural Supervisory Leadership (ASL)
ASL102-SP | Liderar para obtener resultados de calidad. Descubre cómo organizar su lugar de trabajo para tener un equipo que produce un producto de alta calidad. En este curso desarrollará cómo establecer expectativas claras para los empleados con procedimientos operativos estándar (SOP) y aprenderá cómo dirigir su rancho por medio de las diagnósticas y resoluciones de problemas, logrando una organización laboral para producir calidad.
Aprenderá estos temas:
- Sistemas de gestión de calidad
- Establecimiento de expectativas claras
- Organización de procesos y del lugar de trabajo
- Delegación efectiva
- Alineación de la gestión de recursos humanos con las expectativas de responsabilidad social
Profesores de clase
- Mary/María “Bess” Lewis — Especialista Bilingüe para el Desarrollo Administrativo para el Desarrollo de la Fuerza Laboral Agrícola de Cornell
- Santiago Ledwith — Director de Action Dairy y Talentum4 especializando en el Liderazgo Organizacional
- Kaitlyn Lutz — Especialista Bilingüe en Administración de Productos Lácteos para La Extensión Cooperativa de Cornell
- Libby Eiholzer — Especialista Bilingüe en Servicios Técnicos Lácteos de Cargill
ASL101 | Transition to Supervisor -- November 2024
Agricultural Supervisory Leadership (ASL)
ASL101 | Transition to Supervisor is the first course in Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development’s Agricultural Supervisory Leadership certificate program. This six-week online course will help new and experienced managers make the difficult, but critical, transition from individual performer to supervisor. This six-week online course is part of Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development’s Agricultural Supervisory Leadership certificate program. It is appropriate for new and experienced farm managers.Topics include:
- making the transition to supervisor
- improving communication
- understanding differences
- managing conflict
- leading a multicultural team
- building relationships
- Richard Stup, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development Specialist
- Elizabeth Higgins, Ag Business Management/Production Economics Specialist, CCE ENY Commercial Horticulture Team
- Libby Eiholzer, Dairy Technical Services Specialist, Cargill
- Bob Milligan, Cornell University Professor Emeritus