Resources

This page lists Web sites, newsletters, books, a CD, and other publications; conference proceedings; special tools, and a list of facilitators ready to assist you with your advisory team. See also Frequently Asked Questions.

Newsletters

• Summer 2000: Glover Team Exceeds Goals!; To Buy or Not to Buy: The Leasing Alternative; Hiring Personnel for Your Dairy Business; Common Team Problems and How to Solve Them
• Fall 2000: Are you a Benefecial Team Member?; Working with New Team Members; Training Manuals for New Employees; Agribusiness Survey Results
• Winter 2001: A Team Success: Frosty Hollow Farm; Innovate with C.A.R.E. Profile; Advisory Team Resources; Conflict in Work Teams
• Spring 2001: Our Featured Team: Milbro Holsteins, Boswell, PA; Ties That Bind - Virtual Teams
• Summer 2001: Team Reorganization; Top 10 Changes that Producers have Made Since the Start of Their Advisory Team (1997-2000); Show Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T: If You Want Win/Win Outcomes

Publications

Advisory Team Fact Sheets

• Is an Advisory Team in Your Future?
• How Should an Advisory Team Work on Your Dairy?
• Many Farms Could Benefit from an Advisory Team
• How to Start an Advisory Team for Your Dairy
• Goal Setting Guides Your Business Advisory Team
• Make Your Advisory Team More Effective
• Dairy Advisory Teams Work for Them
  

Dairy Herd Management

• Dairy Herd Management

Hoard's Dairyman

• Hoard's Dairyman Magazine

Northeast Dairy Business

• Northeast Dairy Business
  

Land Grant University Newsletters

• Dairy Digest
• DAIReXNET
  

Proceedings from Skills for Successful Teams

Enhancing your skills in forming, leading, and working with teams

October 9-10, 2001

Keynote Speech

Team Dynamics, Ed Noe, Director of Training and Organizational Effectiveness, Pharmacia U.S. Animal Health

Workshops

• Interpersonal and Listening Skills: Advisory Team Training, by Harry Carey, Jr. and Rich Stup
• Interpersonal and Listening Skills: Didja Hear That? by Harry Carey, Jr. and Rich Stup
• Interpersonal and Listening Skills: Ten Keys to Effective Listening, by Harry Carey, Jr. and Rich Stup
• Conflict Resolution, by Jim Henion
• Coaching Skills, by Jenny Boyd
• More Coaching Techniques, by Jenny Boyd
• Goal Setting by John Park and and Lisa Holden
• Facilitation by Ed Noe and Jeff Mamett

Printed copies of the “Skills for Successful Teams” conference proceedings may be purchased for $20.00 (make checks payable to Penn State University) from Dr. Lisa Holden Department of Dairy & Animal Science Penn State University 339 ASI Bldg University Park, PA 16802 Phone 814-863-3672.

Tools Developed by the Dairy Advisory Group

• Coordinator Timeline
• Farm Financial Report
• Herd Report
• Meeting Assignment Sheet
• Meeting Memo, Blank
• Minutes, Sample 1
• Minutes, Sample 2
• S.W.O.T. Analysis Sheet, Blank
• S.W.O.T. Analysis Worksheet, Sample
• S.W.O.T. Analysis, Advance Mailing
• S.W.O.T. Hint List
• Team Owner's Checklist for the First Year

Web Sites

• Center for the Study of Work Teams
• Dairy Farm Resource Planning Guide
• University of Minnesota Department of Animal Science Dairy Web Site

Books

If you have found a book particularly useful in your work with teams that is not on this list, please send the title, name of the author, publisher.

• Communicating in the Small Group - Theory and Practice, second edition. By Beatrice G Schultz, 1996
• Dairy Advisory Teams: A Handbook for Producers. By C. Wm. Heald, Lisa A. Holden & Larry J. Hutcheson, DVM, 2002
• Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the Trenches. By Glenn Parker, Jerry McAdams, and Jerry Zielinski Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000
• The Team and Organization Development Sourcebook. McGraw-Hill, 2000. Edited by Mel Silberman and Patricia Philips
• The New Self Directed Work Teams: Mastering the Challenge. By Jack D. Osburn and Linda Moran.McGraw-Hill (2nd edition) 2000
• The Skilled Facilitator - Practice Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups. By Roger M. Schwarz, 1994
• The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. By Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, Harvard Business School Press, 1993
• The Work of Teams, A Harvard Business Review Book. Edited by Jon R. Katzenbach, 1998

CD

A CD- ROM containing team resource materials was developed as a part of the Penn State University Dairy Advisory Teams project. The CD contains many of the same materials that are available on the website, but may be useful in situations where internet availability is limited. The CD addresses conducting informational meetings, training advisory teams, marketing the team concept, and conducting a service business providing dairy advisory teams.

The cost of the CD is $25.00 (make checks payable to The Pennsylvania State University). To order a Dairy Advisory Team Resource CD-ROM or for more information about the program, please contact

Dr. Lisa Holden
Department of Dairy & Animal Science
Penn State University
339 ASI Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone 814-863-3672