Growing the Future

GTF Podcast: Three Years From Now You're Seeding 24 Hours

Episode Summary

Do you have a coach? Are you in a coaching program? Do you have a structured opportunity to glean insights from your peers in the same business as you? Does your business have an operating system with a set of principles that it runs on?

Episode Notes

A farm advisor once asked Kristjan Hebert why his operation was not seeding around the clock. He had every excuse ready: cold, wet, big air seeders, nobody who wants to work nights. Then the advisor changed the question: it is three years from now, you have been seeding 24 hours, what did you do to fix it?

That reframe is what this panel is about. Kristjan Hebert, Evan Shout and Terry Aberhart talk about what professional coaching, peer groups and a business operating system have changed on their farms and in their lives. Heather Watson of Farm Management Canada asks the questions, and Dan pushes on why so few farmers are in these programs at all.

What's Inside

- Why Kristjan treats people as an investment, and the four things he says coaching changed

- Why Evan gets the most from peer groups outside agriculture

- What Strategic Coach, TEPAP and EOS each do differently, in the panel's own words

- What happened when one farm tried to implement EOS on its own, and when it brought in a facilitator

- How to approach a busy mentor without wasting their time

- What each panelist hopes their farm looks like in three years

Partners 

-Canadian Young Farmers Forum (CYFF).

-Farm Management Canada. 

-Hiebert Green Ventures. A progressive agricultural enterprise dedicated to practicing and promoting excellence in farming.

-Maverick Ag Consulting. A business risk management and consulting firm focused on insurance and data analytics. Maverick Ag limited was built to evolve the mindset of financial and business risk management and agriculture.

-Aberhart Ag Solutions, Growing the Future Podcast, Convergence Growth,

Panelists 

- Kristjan Hebert HGV) 

- Evan Shout president and co-founder of Maverick Ag and CFO of Heber Green Ventures and Aberhart Farms. 

- Terry Aberhart  partner at Aberhart Ag Solutions

In this episode you will learn: 

• The importance of professional coaching if you’re in the farming industry or any type of business.
• The impact that professional coaching has had on the panelist and their business.
• What's strategic coaching and how it can dramatically change your farming business?
• The importance of joining peer groups and how they can  improve the industry.
• What's Entrepreneurial Operating Systems (EOS) and why it's considered the evolution of strategic coach for entrepreneurs and teams?
• Networking?! what to do and what are some best practices.
• What is one of the main challenges for farming employees adopting new technologies and processes?
• how do keep up with economic growth while keeping costs and the lowest?

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