Posts By: Western Growers

Western Growers University: Effective Employee Performance Management (Spanish)

With competing demands and constant workplace disruptions, your team looks to you for direction, guidance, and inspiration. Discover techniques to help you coach your team more effectively and help move them from feeling threatened to challenged and fulfilled. Equip yourself with tools to help you maximize your coaching style, address performance gaps, and create a more competent and efficient…

Western Growers Ag Legal Network Directory 2023

Participants in this referral service agree to give Western Growers members a 15 percent discount off of their normal legal services rates.* The WG-member law firms listed below specialize in a wide array of legal issues to fit virtually any need a member may have, from business contracts to labor issues to food safety liability. WG law firm members who advertise in this issue…

Western Growers University: Wage and Hour: What you Need to Know to be Compliant (English)

This course will carefully guide you through Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requirements. Understand the specifics of how to classify and pay an employee correctly. Misclassification can lead to costly penalties and expose you to potential class action and PAGA claims. Educate your managers about wage and hour laws, set clear employee expectations, and avoid common miscalculations and…

Western Growers University: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment: Non-Supervisory Employees (Spanish)

During this course, you will learn state law requirements regarding discrimination, harassment, and abusive conduct with a fresh approach. This course focuses on what matters most: knowing what to do if you experience or witness sexual harassment or other misconduct without fear of retaliation. This one-hour course is essential for developing awareness of acceptable and unacceptable workplace…

Western Growers University: Building Trust in the Workplace (Spanish)

This course discusses the foundation for all relationships and trust. It is the basis for effective employee relationships, motivation, teamwork, decision-making, accountability, etc. Learn how to develop skills for building, maintaining, and extending trust to others. Discover thirteen techniques to help you manage your staff more effectively by cultivating healthy, trusting…

Western Growers University: Building Trust in the Workplace (English)

This course discusses the foundation for all relationships and trust. It is the basis for effective employee relationships, motivation, teamwork, decision-making, accountability, etc. Learn how to develop skills for building, maintaining, and extending trust to others. Discover thirteen techniques to help you manage your staff more effectively by cultivating healthy, trusting…

Western Growers University: Effective Employee Performance Management (English)

With competing demands and constant workplace disruptions, your team looks to you for direction, guidance, and inspiration. Discover techniques to help you coach your team more effectively and help move them from feeling threatened to challenged and fulfilled. Equip yourself with tools to help you maximize your coaching style, address performance gaps, and create a more competent and efficient…

Western Growers University: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment: Non-Supervisory Employees (English)

During this course, you will learn state law requirements regarding discrimination, harassment, and abusive conduct with a fresh approach. This course focuses on what matters most: knowing what to do if you experience or witness sexual harassment or other misconduct without fear of retaliation. This one-hour course is essential for developing awareness of acceptable and unacceptable workplace…

Western Growers University: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment: Supervisory Employees (English)

Learn what the law says about acceptable and unacceptable workplace behavior by examining the different forms of harassment, abusive conduct, and discrimination. Equip yourself with new approaches to help individuals know how to make the right decisions and act if they experience or witness sexual harassment or other misconduct -- from the obvious to the subtle. Help your organization avoid…

Western Growers University: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment: Supervisory Employees (Spanish)

Learn what the law says about acceptable and unacceptable workplace behavior by examining the different forms of harassment, abusive conduct, and discrimination. Equip yourself with new approaches to help individuals know how to make the right decisions and act if they experience or witness sexual harassment or other misconduct -- from the obvious to the subtle. Help your organization avoid…

Western Growers University: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment: Non-Supervisory Employees (Spanish)

During this course, you will learn state law requirements regarding discrimination, harassment, and abusive conduct with a fresh approach. This course focuses on what matters most: knowing what to do if you experience or witness sexual harassment or other misconduct without fear of retaliation. This one-hour course is essential for developing awareness of acceptable and unacceptable workplace…

Western Growers Women Performance Coaching: Managing Performance Effectively Webinar

Join Western Growers Women on Wednesday, January 10th at 10 a.m. for a Performance Coaching Virtual Workshop, focusing on managing performance effectively. This workshop will feature Western Growers' Training and Development Manager, Priscila Cisneros. Tailored for managers, supervisors, and HR professionals, especially in agriculture, this course equips you with the Performance Management…

Western Growers 98th Annual Meeting

Western Growers is proud to announce our 98th Annual Meeting will be held November 3-6, 2024 at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort and Spa.   For the latest details about the event visit wgannualmeeting.com. We look forward to seeing you and your families at our most popular annual event.    

The 2024 Salinas Biological Summit

Following this year’s sold-out inaugural Summit, Western Growers and New Zealand-based AgriFoodTech consultancy, Wharf42, are delighted to announce the dates of the 2024 Salinas Biological Summit: June 25-26, 2024. With so many challenges facing growers of specialty crops, ‘Supporting Growers Adapt to a Changing Environment’ will be a key outcome for the 2024 Summit. Key topics that…