Project Overview
Human resource risk for Vermont dairy businesses can be managed through improved communication skills. One labor management issue for Vermont dairy producers is communicating with a Hispanic workforce. This project improved effective communication between Vermont dairy producers and their Spanish speaking employees by increasing participants’ basic Spanish language skills and cultural understanding through an Occupational Spanish Class targeted for the participants. Participants learned a limited number of practical expressions within a short period of time- a total of 24 hours of instruction + some participants participated in a refresher class held 8 months later. The class followed the Command Spanish® philosophy of teaching highly specific phrases developed for particular occupations and industries. This was not be a traditional Spanish class project. 54 Vermont dairy producers/ag industy professional attended the Occupational Spanish class + the Refresher Class. We held the class with a certified Command Spanish instructor in 4 different regions across the state to make it convenient for producers to attend class.
Number of Participants: 54
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