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Precision Farming Dealer Summit

Precision Success Only as Good as Your Internal Training

Richins & Finley, the managers heading up the precision farming efforts at Stotz Equipment (John Deere) and Mazergroup (New Holland), share the components of their internal training systems to equip staff for success.
By Mike Lessiter posted on March 17, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Staff training was part of nearly every discussion at the 2018 Precision Farming Dealer Summit in Louisville. Precision is where things are moving fastest, and the expectations of farmers and the dealership itself (both equally unrealistic at times) and the firefighting at planting and harvest require highly structured processes and duties.
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Depth Chart, Talent Scouting Report ... How It’s Worked for Us

By Mike Lessiter posted on January 8, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
We launched the “Lessiter Media Depth Chart” at a quarterly employee meeting last year. Put simply, it’s a place to seed the names of individuals who our employees see as sharing our core values and could one day be candidates for job openings. The intent is to identify and document potential talent — and assign someone to get to know them — BEFORE we have the need.
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My Greatest Mistake: Tom Rosztoczy

CEO, Stotz Equipment Co., Avondale, Ariz. (2013 Dealership of the Year)
By Mike Lessiter posted on December 24, 2016 | Posted in Operations & Finance, Department Management
“In 2001, we purchased 6 locations from 4 owner groups in Utah and Idaho over the course of 4 months (Mistake #1). To manage the new stores we hired people from outside the company (Mistake #2). Viewing travel as an expense, we limited the travel between the old stores and the new stores (Mistake #3).
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My ‘Greatest’ Mistake

8 farm equipment executives share their greatest mistakes and the lessons ‘forged in the fire’ that they carry with them today.
By Mike Lessiter posted on December 24, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices
That was an email I received from Johnson Tractor’s Leo Johnson (see p. 30) as we were preparing for this SHOWCASE special report. Said another way (by 19th century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer), “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
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