Transcript Personnel plan.ppt

Personnel Plan
People make a business successful.
Who will manage your business, who will
provide the labor, and how will they do it?
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Labor
Your business plan should document that
you have the management and personnel
resources necessary to run your business
or a plan to obtain them.
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Personnel Plan
For many family farms, the personnel plan
will only need to describe the roles of the
family members and the outside
consultants and advisors hired.
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Management
Who is the manager?
What are the roles of the manager?
What are the qualifications of the
manager?
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Management
Who is on the management team, what
are there roles and qualifications?
What additional management skills may
be needed either through training, outside
advisors or hiring staff.
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Management
How does a farmer transition from a one
person operation and learn how to
manage people?
You have to be a learner, and willing to
get help to learn how to manage people.
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Management
Do you have a management transition or
contingency plan?
If the manager is unable to continue, who
will replace him or her?
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Labor
What tasks need to be accomplished in
your business?
What additional tasks will be created if
you make major business changes?
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Labor
Who will do the required tasks – family
members, existing employees, or will you
hire additional help?
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Labor
 Are there tasks that no one on your team has
the skills to do or that no one is willing to do?
 You might want to use your task list and identify
the ones where your business has personnel
gaps.
 What responsibilities will you hire consultants to
do?
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Personnel Plan
Your personnel plan should describe job
descriptions, compensation plans,
incentive plans, employee handbooks, and
training procedures.
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Personnel Plan
The most important business skill in any
occupation is people skills!
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Resources
Ag Help Wanted
• www.aghelpwanted.org
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Resources
Guide worksheets
• Management team – worksheet 4.22
• Family and hired labor – worksheet 4.19, 4.2
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Resources
FINPACK Business Plan software
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Management team
Family & hired labor
Consultants
Personnel management
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