Resources to Kick Start Change in your Family
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Books
Farm Family Coach Insights
Seeds of encouragement for success in farm transition
Elaine Froese is a lifetime farmer, professional speaker, writer, and coach who helps farm families work through issues surrounding succession, business, and communication.
In Farm Family Coach Insights, she gathers wisdom from her decades-long career with real farm families to help yours. The book covers relationships, communication, teams and operations, planning, transition and success, and healthy habits in a collection of short essays geared specifically to farmers as they face real-life challenges on the farm.
With encouragement, recommendations, and sometimes some tough love, this book will guide farmers toward a path of more harmony and less conflict on the farm.
Building Your Farm Legacy
Tools to Empower Better Family Communication
Many farm folks work hard at producing great crops and caring for livestock, but when it comes to communicating their deepest desires for the future of the farm, they get stuck. This book is a compilation of Elaine Froese's best information and can be used to plant seeds of new ideas to embrace habits for better relationships and ultimately build the legacy of your farm. Learn more >
Farming's In-Law Factor...
How to have more harmony and less conflict on family farms.
Everyone wants harmony on their family farm and this book will show you how to get it. Unresolved in-law tensions can create chaos and split the farm. It time to take the bull by the horns and solve the people conflicts on your farm with this book's practical tools. Learn more ›
Do the Tough Things Right...
How to prevent communication disasters in family business.
"Are you having a hard time starting the conversations about who gets the family business, and when?" This book is designed to help you nail down the key challenges you need to talk about. It's a workbook style, so you can write your responses to the tough questions certified coach Elaine Froese asks. Learn more ›
Planting the Seed of Hope
Elaine's award winning 186 page book.
Planting the Seed of Hope Celebrating Prairie life. The book of encouragement for rural families based on 10 years of writing about communication, connection, and celebration. Learn more ›
Presentations
How to Get Parents to Talk About Farm Transition
Virtual Kitchen Table Presentation + Bonus PDF Downloads
- Understand why farm dads are “shutting down” when they are asked to be open about their plans and desires, and how you can get them to share more openly, more often.
- Learn why farm moms are essential to starting the conversation about farm transition and how to engage them without making them feel like a mediator.
- Learn how to respectfully vocalize your needs and be clear about your intentions to have courageous conversations with farm parents.
- Create meaningful ways to have family meetings where all voices are heard and respected. Imagine that!
Dealing with Entitled Siblings
Virtual Kitchen Table Presentation + Bonus PDF Downloads
- Create mindset shifts that level the farm field, helping everyone to be successful and contribute. Learn how to respectfully, yet assertively, attack the issue and not the people (siblings).
- Destroy harmful and hurtful assumptions, and develop a path forward to create more trust, empathy, and understanding.
- Develop a buyout business plan that works. and re-write money scripts, shifting unsupported entitlement to a willingness to negotiate.
Audio (MP3 format)
Who Gets the Farm and When?
60 minute audio
This 60 minute audio is Elaine in action as she provides structure for conflict resolution, talks about head, heart and gut resistance to change. Buy this audio as a primer for the things you need to understand in order to start having more courageous conversations about change and transition on your farm.
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Ten Tools for Talking About Tough Issues
60 minute audio
Discover what you need to know to get what you want on the farm. This audio program is Elaine’s basic conflict resolution primer for families. Learn more ›
Planning for Change
60 minute audio
Tools to create a roadmap for the future of your farm. Figure out what stage of the renewal cycle you're in and how to get to a new chapter in your life. Learn more ›
Fixing Your Time Stress Mess
60 minute audio
Workaholics will discover helpful strategies for managing their time stress mess in this audio of Elaine Froese’s presentation at the 2010 Farm Tech conference in Edmonton Alberta. Learn more ›
Leaving a Lasting Legacy
1 hour - 40 minute audio
Legacy for farm families is more than the transfer of money and land. It’s about personal wishes, emotional decisions, and what you truly value. Learn more ›
Don't Split the Yard
30 minute audio
Letting go of the farm home and moving to a different residence is hard. In this audio of her presentation given to farmers at Ag Days in Brandon, Manitoba, farm family coach Elaine Froese tells it “like it is.” Learn more ›
