Developing a successful employee begins with the quality of the onboarding process at your dairy. No matter the job, onboarding is critical to ensuring that the employee you are hiring understands your goals and values and how to do their job in a satisfactory manner. Recently in a Cornell Cooperative Extension Whole Farm Efficiency webinar, Mary Kate Mackenzie, a farm business management specialist with Cornell PRO-DAIRY, explained how to create and implement employee onboarding programs on dairies.
The onboarding process is the stage where new employees are integrated into a farm or business. While in this process, new hires will complete paperwork, receive safety training, form a sense of connection with other employees, and gain a better understanding of the tasks they are assigned. Although this process seems relatively easy, many farms face challenges when it comes to bringing new employees on board. Finding labor can be difficult with risks of turnover, injuries, noncompliance to regulations, and poor performance on the line. Hiring someone can be a big transition with lots of uncertainty not only for employer, but the worker, too.
Jenna Byrne
Aug. 15, 2024
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