Managerial SUCCESSion Planning: Balancing Production, Resources, People and Money
Are you ready to take the next step in planning for the succession of management duties for your agricultural operation? In this two-hour workshop, Melinda Sims (rancher, Holistic Management practitioner, and Ranching for Profit instructor) will share key principles, practices, and tools to help you identify the opportunities and needs for transferring management activities to current team members or help you identify others within your community who may be able to perform them. Learn how to effectively transfer management, putting you in the driver’s seat to a successful succession experience before it is too late!
Through experiential activities participants can expect the following outcomes:
1. Improved Communications Skills
2. Identify Business Roles and Responsibilities
3. Clarity on a Managerial Succession Timeline by creating their own Organizational Chart, Effectiveness Areas, and an analysis of educational gaps to move leadership into new roles
4. Understanding the Ranching For Profit Succession Principles
5. Understanding key components of managerial succession from a real-life example of succession planning and implementation
Contact Marie with any questions at mariev@holisticmanagement.org.
Melinda Sims graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2000 with a degree in Animal Science, focusing on production. While at UW she met and married her husband, Shanon. After college they began working for the family business, Sims Cattle Company, in McFadden, Wyoming. They have two children, a son, Kagan, and a daughter, Jentry, who are the fifth generation on the ranch. Throughout her 26 years on the ranch, Melinda has become very involved in every aspect of ranching, from daily management of animals and land to long term planning and business management. She attended Ranching For Profit in 2020 and 2021, and was an Executive Link member for 2 years. She became a Ranching for Profit instructor in 2022 and appreciates the opportunity to see other ranchers develop profitable and resilient businesses. Melinda strives to understand holism and how it applies to Sims Cattle Company and has worked diligently with Shanon and his family to breed profitable cattle that work in their environment using Ranching for Profit and Holistic Management principles.