2024 Greenhouse Training Online Continues with New Course on Latino Workforce Success

Greenhouse Training Online ‘Success With Your Latino Workforce’ | UF/IFAS

Success With Your Latino Workforce is an intermediate-level course from the University of Florida’s Greenhouse Training Online program that teaches growers and industry professionals the “concepts of communication and culture” and how they can be applied to your workforce to create a more positive and efficient work environment for your employees.

Success With Your Latino Workforce is taught by Dr. Claudio Pasian, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University. This brand-new course will prepare non-Latino supervisors or coworkers of Latino employees to solve issues in the workplace that are the consequence of a mixed culture workforce. Common Spanish terms and phrases for greenhouse and nursery production will be taught.

This course is only offered in English.

Course participants will:

• Learn to better understand who your Latino/Hispanic workers are
• Learn to analyze the social and cultural backgrounds of Latino migrants and immigrants
• Learn the basic concepts of communication and culture and how they apply to the Latino workforce
• Learn and understand how Latino culture affects behavior and communication in the workplace

The course runs from Oct. 14 to Nov. 8, 2024. All course material is completely online and available at any time of the day. It includes pre-recorded videos, an interactive discussion board with Ph.D. professors, and quizzes. Two new modules are activated each week during each course, for a total of eight learning modules. Register online at https://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/training/.

For more information, including available discounts for registering multiple staff, email training staff at [email protected].