Get Recognized at Work and Grow Your Career

Welcome to the Farm!

Unlock your potential with a practical career development course designed for contributors who want to stand out at work, get recognized, and grow their careers.

Whether you are a contributor who wants to get recognized or a manager looking for practical manager training to develop a more proactive and collaborative team, you will gain tools you can apply immediately.

Using farm-inspired storytelling, this course connects everyday lessons from doing farming chores to the realities of today’s workplace. You will strengthen communication skills, improve collaboration, and build the trust, visibility, and credibility that help contributors stand out and teams perform more effectively.

Managers can also use this course with their teams to improve one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, communication, accountability, and collaboration.

You will also receive downloadable tools and templates you can start using right away.

The course is facilitated by David Elser, a certified talent development professional through the Association for Talent Development and an executive coach with extensive experience in both field and corporate environments within the transportation industry.

Through Doing The Chores, along with scenes filmed on the farm where many of those lessons began, David connects everyday workplace responsibilities to the foundational behaviors that build discipline, trust, competence, and long-term success.

Throughout this course, you will learn how to strengthen workplace communication, improve collaboration, and use practical tools to improve individual and team performance.

• Strengthen attention to detail and communication skills
  Develop habits that improve organization, accuracy, follow-through, and professional communication.

• Improve one-on-one meetings
  Use DTC’s Weekly Update Template to create more productive conversations between managers and contributors and improve communication, alignment, and collaboration.

• Improve meeting management and documentation
  Use DTC’s Meeting Agenda Template to plan, organize, and document meetings more effectively.

• Communicate responsibilities with RACI diagrams
  Clarify roles, responsibilities, and accountability on projects and processes.

• Improve performance discussions
  Learn a structured process for identifying performance improvement opportunities and creating more productive conversations about performance.

• Develop more proactive and collaborative teams
  Managers can use the course with their teams to improve one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, meeting management, role clarity, accountability, and collaboration.

• Leverage AI to address workplace performance challenges
  Explore practical ways to use AI to reduce time spent in meetings, reduce the need for unnecessary meetings, create clearer meeting agendas and follow-ups, and support more productive one-on-one and performance discussions.

• Understand leadership, management, and smart followership
  Better understand workplace dynamics and how managers and contributors can become stronger collaborators.

• Learn and apply followership styles
  Use Dr. Robert Kelley’s followership styles to better understand initiative, independent thinking, engagement, and the manager-contributor relationship.

• Apply course concepts to your job and team
  Use DTC’s Participant Guide, coaching questions, reflection questions, and downloadable tools to support career development, manager training, and team development.

This course is designed for contributors focused on career development and managers who want stronger communication skills, better collaboration, and more effective teams.

Bonus Lessons: Using AI While Doing The Chores

Put AI into practice with two downloadable resources: the AI Meeting Minutes Prompt and AI Usage Tracker.

Use them to create clearer meeting follow-ups and document where AI saves time and adds value to your work.

Both resources are included with the course.

Well... what are you waiting for? It's Time To Do The Chores!!