Safe, Productive and Engaged from Day One
Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development is offering two one-hour three-session Onboarding Webinar Series via Zoom that targets farm employers and the educators and consultants who support them. Registration is free, but required. This program is funded by a grant from the New York Farm Viability Institute.
Two Series, Choose One that Works for You!
Session One: December 8 & 22, 2021 and January 5, 2022 from 11:00am to Noon each day.
Session Two: January 21, and February 4 & 18, 2022 from 11:00am to Noon each day.
The first days and weeks on the job set the course for a new employee. A successful onboarding program can be an essential tool to help reduce employee turnover, increase employee safety and productivity, and contribute to a farm’s success.
“A successful onboarding process begins with a well-planned orientation, training and compliance, and leads to improvements that benefit both the manager and employees throughout the relationship,” said Dr. Richard Stup, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Specialist.
The three-session Onboarding Zoom Series focuses on navigating employment requirements and improving human resource management practices, including enhancing training skills. In the webinar series, the Cornell Agricultural Workforce team will share how to use onboarding materials, methods and templates. The series covers how to navigate employment requirements and improve human resource management practices, including enhancing training skills. Each webinar includes a 20-minute presentation, followed by 15 to 20 minute breakout sessions, and finishes with a 15-minute general Q&A session.
Assigned “homework” between each session, completed with the support of a CCE educator or consultant, ensures participants exit the series with a personalized onboarding template, onboarding materials, trainings, and methods.
Benefits for Farms:
- Ensures compliance with basic regulations and policies.
- Provides clarification on work procedures and expectations, which results in better employee performance and safety.
- Establishes a workplace culture based on values, philosophies and traditions.
- Creates connected relationships at work that allow employees to engage and thrive.
- Increases employee commitment and reduces turnover.
- Provides accessible and realistic support for farm onboarding, even when labor and time are in short supply.
More information about the onboarding webinar series is available on the Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development’s website.
Visit agworkforce.cals.cornell.edu/onboarding/for more information and resources about onboarding.
To sign up for this or future Onboarding projects, contact Lucas Smith (ls678@cornell.edu), Ag Workforce Development, or your local Cornell Cooperative Extension educator.
