June - July 2017

 

Recruiting Talent, Keeping Top Performers and Recognizing your Team Members
How do you recruit talent, keep top performers and recognize your outstanding team members? This newsletter edition focuses on attracting the top talent to your operation and keeping them on-board and performing optimally. The short story is that it requires a focus on building a strong business with a welcoming culture, and rewarding and recognizing performance. Read more in this latest edition of the FCC Services newsletter.

 

Keeping Top Performers and Recognizing your Team Members

It's a well-accepted business tenet that human capital is an organization’s most critical resource. Motivated and engaged employees delight customers, create efficiencies and deliver innovation in products, services and processes, all contributing to the company’s bottom line. Attracting the top talent to your operation and keeping them on-board and performing optimally requires a focus on building a strong business with a welcoming culture, and rewarding and recognizing performance. Read More.

 

Customer Spotlight

 

Succession Planning at Texas Farm Credit

Succession planning is essential for business continuity when key employees leave an organization. Recognizing this, Texas Farm Credit turned to FCC Services to undertake an extensive succession planning effort for its executive level positions. Read More.

 

Services Spotlight

 

Executive Coaching and Executive Leadership Incubator Program

Everyone, even the most seasoned executive, undoubtedly has areas to improve, and many of the most successful leaders take active steps to achieve that growth. They read top business books, attend leadership conferences, and seek executive coaching to improve on specific areas like communicating with colleagues, motivating employees, thinking strategically or driving change in the face of an evolving business climate. Read More.

 

Risk Management Corner

 

Spotting Risky Team Members

Workplace fraud is a significant financial issue: globally, it adds up to a full 5 percent of annual revenue; for Farm Credit, it's totaled more than $27 million since 1991, with the average loss of a fraud incident being $1.84 million. With fraud insurance included in the Farm Credit Captive coverages, half of the Farm Credit fraud insurance claims have seen at least a partial recovery of funds stolen, but theft and embezzlement still take a toll. Read More.

 

Featured Partner

 

Rewards and Recognition for Your Employees

Everyone likes to be appreciated by the people around them, and the workplace is no different: research shows that companies with employee recognition programs enjoy higher levels of employee engagement and retention. National Discount Program Partner O.C. Tanner helps companies gain these benefits by working with them to help connect, engage and encourage their people through the simple art of appreciating them. Read More.

 

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News

Company News

FCC Services Welcomes Jessica Ricciardi

Bringing with her more than a decade of HR experience as well as a strong passion for helping people grow, Jessica Ricciardi recently joined FCC Services as Human Resources Manager. With overall responsibility for the human resource function at FCC Services, including benefits, payroll, performance management and recruitment and selection, Jessica will work to support FCC Services' highly dedicated staff. Read More.

Industry News

Gettysburg College Visits MidAtlantic Farm Credit

Farm Credit offers a wide variety of career options and a challenging, committed and mission-driven culture. At times, though, it seems that too many of the talented employees System organizations would like to recruit are unaware of all that Farm Credit has to offer.

In May, MidAtlantic Farm Credit (MAFC) took one step toward overcoming this informational hurdle by inviting the career development staff and students from Gettysburg College to its offices for a Field Visit as part of the College’s “Year of Food” themed program. Read More.

Calendar of Events

RAAW Conference

Mitigating Disruption

August 28-30, 2017
Denver Marriott City Center
Denver, CO

Farm Credit Sales Leaders Conference

October 24-26, 2017
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Nashville, TN

The FORUM for Ag Lending

Leveraging Disruption

September 25-27, 2017
Grand Hyatt Buckhead
Atlanta, GA

Director Leadership Conference

Discerning Disruption

November 14-16, 2017
Ritz Carlton Amelia Island
Fernandina Beach, FL

FCC Services