Category: Human Resources
Recruiting, retaining and managing employees
Sponsored Brewery HR 101
Crafting great beer is an art, but managing the human side of your brewery is equally essential for success. “Brewery HR 101” is designed to provide brewery owners, managers, and HR professionals with the foundational knowledge and tools necessary to build a strong and productive workforce in the craft beer industry. From hiring and training brewery staff to fostering a positive work culture and complying with industry-specific regulations, our guests will share insight on how to foster a thriving workforce.
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News Brewers Publications Releases ‘Brewery Safety: Principles, Processes, and People’
Brewers Publications has released their newest book, Brewery Safety: Principles, Processes, and People. The latest in the Business of Beer series aims to equip breweries and teams of all sizes with strategies for preventing, controlling, and eliminating hazards.
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Expert Topic Employment Opportunities in the Beer Business Beyond Brewing
Brewers are called to the profession out of a love for art and science. It is physically demanding but brimming in tradition and creativity. To rise through the ranks at a brewery from various jobs to once day becoming holder of a mash paddle is a great accomplishment. But there are many job opportunities in the brewing industry outside the role of brewer.
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Expert Topic Making the Most of Internships: Offering Experience that Goes Beyond the Bare Minimum.
Internships have long been a way for people to get a taste of an industry and gain valuable experience. In the best of circumstances, internships offer newcomers an entry level opportunity and give the company additional support. In recent years, companies have started to reevaluate how they run their internship programs. Long the standard, unpaid internships have come under criticism for exploiting workers and offering an opportunity only the financially secure can afford to undertake. With these challenges in mind, let’s take a look at two successful internship programs.
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Expert Topic Being a Beer Tourist: Why Travel Is Good For The Soul and Can Help Your Business
It’s incredibly easy to experience the wide world of beer from the comfort of your couch. Distribution has made sampling world class beers easier than ever. While this is remarkable and praiseworthy, it’s no substitute for getting out and experiencing other cultures and breweries in their home environments. Whether it’s the taproom a few miles away or a brewery halfway around the world, traveling for beer helps expand our understanding of the beverage we love and widens our experience and knowledge.
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Sponsored Managing Your Team With A Scorecard System with Julie Rhodes of Not Your Hobby Marketing Solutions
Brewing a cold IPA is one thing, but knowing how to manage your team is a whole different skill set all together. And even if you fake it until you make it, you might hit a tipping point where you need more strategic management systems in place to manage a larger team, hold them accountable for their various duties, streamline training processes, maintain expectations, and reward excellent performance in an unbiased manner. Learning how to use a strategic scorecard system to manage your team can help you navigate these uncharted waters.
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Sponsored Rising to Leadership: Optimize your Service on Boards and Committees with Meg Ellis
There are as many ways to be a leader as there are styles of beer out there. But not every opportunity is going to be the right fit for you. How do you find the “Goldilocks” role where you can make a difference? And what do you do once you’ve found it?
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Sponsored Carrots: Incentives for Productivity with Aaron MJ Gore of Bevana
An overview of the principals behind how humans are incentivized in the pursuit of goals, and how best to use those insights in the business landscape. Attendees will learn the basics of building compensation and bonus structures that create the incentives you want, while avoiding the perverse and misguided incentives that you don’t. Moreover, they will learn how to apply these same techniques in the broader landscape, helping everyone reach the sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and financial achievement they desire.
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Expert Topic Apps To Help You Strike A Better Work Life Balance
Managing your mental health is challenging regardless of your profession. The brewing industry is no different. The physical demands placed on brewers and staff can be substantial. Add in the temptations of free and frequent access to alcohol, and it’s easy to lose track of both your physical and mental well-being in this industry. The job and its mental load rarely stay within the four corners of the brewery.
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Sponsored After the Reckoning: A Safe Bars Experience with Safe Bars
It’s been almost two years since our eyes were opened to some of the toxic behaviors common in brewing culture. While awareness was the first step in building a new culture, we still have work to do to take care of one another and heal. Fortunately, you (the people who work in the industry) are positioned to make that happen!
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News How To Create Or Improve Your In-house Tasting Panel
Creating an active, engaged in-house tasting and sensory program should be top of mind for brewers of every size. You spend so much time planning, brewing, cleaning, and often just trying to survive, outsourcing the beer sensory element of your business to consumers in your taproom or even machine or lab testing can be tempting. While there is great value in using lab work or your frontline tasters as part of your overall mechanism for ensuring product quality, it remains crucial to have a diverse array of brewery employees routinely taste and assess the quality and consistency of the beers that you produce. Let’s take a look at some key points in creating a tasting and sensory program.
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News Why and How to Encourage Outside Training for Your Brewery Employees
Your team is set, and the business is humming along. Employees seem happy, the customers are keeping the coffers full and the tanks busy and for the first time in a long time you, as an owner, have a moment of peace and calm. Then reality sets in and thoughts of the future creep into your brain.
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News Developing a Successful Mentorship Program for Employees
The American craft beer industry likes to talk about being small and independent and removed from big business culture. Living in the realm of small business it cultivates a scrappy and local image that resonates with a lot of consumers.
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News Extended Time Off – Offering Brewery Employees a Sabbatical
The human condition is designed for wandering and exploration. To expand the mind, horizons, and to collect experiences as we hurdle through life. We are also the only species that pays to live on the planet and as such need employment to keep us stocked with basic necessities and shelter. At times the desires and needs can be in conflict.
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Expert Topic An Exit Strategy: Questions to Consider Before Closing Up Shop
The small business survival rate can be terrifying to people contemplating opening their own shop. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 20 percent of small businesses in this country fail within their first year of operation. By the end of year five, half have closed. And these stats were before the pandemic took its toll on already strained businesses.
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Sponsored Successful Staff Training Roundtable with Craft Beer Professionals
A successful training program requires investment, and investing in your team is one of the best things you can do to better your brewery. The more educated your team, the better representatives they will be for your brand – and the more beer they’ll be able to sell. Having this is valuable no matter where a person works in your company, and having educational systems in place can help bridge the frequent disconnect between departments. In this conversation we will discuss how our panelists have facilitated training that educates, motivates, and results in a more successful brewery.
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Expert Topic Employee Perks and Benefits with Erik C. Coleman of Beer By Coleman
A goal of brewery owners should be to focus not only on making great beer, but providing a workplace environment that values employees, fosters careers, and seeks to keep the calm and peace. That can be easier said than done in a high-pressure environment that touches on many different skillsets but there are ways to achieve a positive workplace beyond just paying a fair salary.
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News Feds to Mandate Businesses with Over 100 Employees to Require Vaccine or Testing of All Employees
President Biden is set to announce today a new federal rule that will require that all businesses with 100 or more employees to have all workers either fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing for the virus.
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