PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
“Creating A Winning Team”
Business and Strategic Planning
 The role of the board in strategic and business planning
 Analyzing the internal and external business environment
 Writing strategic goals
 Analyzing a new business opportunity
 Evaluating the financial performance of a project
Oklahoma
Credentialed
Cooperative
Director
Financial Management Toolbox
 The boards financial responsibilities
 Assessing a cooperative’s financial health
 Debt and Equity-Planning the capital structure
 Developing and using Budgets
 Equity redemption
Evaluating the General Manger
 CEO appraisal
 Compensation planning (salary range, equity, salary compression)
 Flexible compensation
 Reaching consensus in the appraisal process
Developing the General Manager
 Understanding management functions
 What a Good Manager Contributes to Cooperative Performance
 Manager Training
Clear Policies Improve Manger/Board Relations
 Results Policies
 Boundary policies
 Board-management relations policies
 Board leadership policies
Improving Communicating with Members
 Overview of communication
 The purpose and value of a communication plan
 Membership surveys
 How to communicate important issues and problems
 How to be an advocate for change and improvement
Case Study: “Personnel Policy Pitfalls”
March 5, 2003
Autry Technology Center
Enid, Oklahoma
With interactive video downlinks to:
Woodward: High Plains Vo-Tech
Fort Cobb: Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center
Ponca City: TeleConf Room, BIS Building
Altus:
Southwest Technology Center
Miami:
Northeastern
Organized by:
Oklahoma Agricultural Cooperative Council
OSU Bill Fitzwater Cooperative Chair
The Triangle Companies
“Creating a Winning Team”
11:15 a.m. “Developing the General Manager”
Mike Frickenschmidt
Executive Director OACC
9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Mike Frickenschmidt
Executive Director OACC
9:15 a.m.
“Business and Strategic Planning”
Tommy Engleke,
Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council
9:45 a.m.
“Financial Management Toolbox”
Vern May,
CoBank
12:00
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
“Clear Policies Improve Manager and Board
Relations”
Doug Jackson
Gungoll, Jackson, Collins & Box, PC
1:45 p.m.
“Improving Communications with Members”
Janna Ogden,
The Triangle Companies
2:30 p.m.
Case Study: “Personnel Policy Pitfalls”
3:15 p.m.
Evaluation & Wrap-up
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. “Evaluating the General Manager”
Phil Kenkel
Bill Fitzwater Endowed Chair in Cooperatives
Oklahoma State University
Sponsors:
Oklahoma Agricultural Cooperative Council
The Triangle Companies
Oklahoma State University
CoBank
Autry Technology Center