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Are you arguing with reality and spending your time re-litigating the past? Many clients do this frequently. It makes total sense because...that's how you were taught to think. But what if you could stop doing that. What if you could stop focusing on the stuff you can not change, and focus on the stuff you can. That's what happens when you decide who you want to be in your business, before you decide what you want to do. Who before how...always.

Today, I am bringing my coach, the wonderful Maggie Reyes, on to the podcast to talk about communication. Maggie brings a world of experience to the topic of communication, from her position in HR in the cruise industry, to being a life coach for Type A women who are creating better marriages, and now she's bringing it to food manufacturing! Because food manufacturers are people...who need to communicate with other people. All of Maggie's goodness can be found at maggiereyes.com and check out her Marriage MBA program 

Calibration...what a thrilling topic! It's pretty rad though that there are all sorts of devices out there that measure whether or not our food meets our critical limits though!  But the deal is...you have make sure those devices are working. How you ask? Well, good thing you can find out.  And, when you want to stop worrying about whether your SOPs are ok and just want the swipe files...time to join us at Food Safety University. Enroll today and get Certified HACCP training Certified Preventive Controls Training All the SOPs you'll ever need for your food safety plan The 90 day validations for passing your audit Live support from me...answering any question, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month Click here to check it out

I am delighted to bring you this interview with Jill Stuber, the Food Safety Coach. Jill, like me, knows that it is the people who are the key to making your facility work. Listen in as we talk about how we coach our clients and the transformations coaching brings. You can catch all Jill's goodness at the Food Safety Coach.

Competence...Does your workforce have it and do you know? And for that matter...why is it important? A competent workforce is your key to saving time, money and a lot of energy. So how do you get a trained and competent workforce? Listen in!

Pest management is one of those things that is pretty easy to get right. Unless of course you don't do it. You know more than you think you do around pest control!

When my clients look at document control they often cringe. It's boring, it's hard, and it shows little result. Well, no kidding is sucks if you approach it like that. What if your document control process was the key to the efficiency of your food safety system?

I am a total Gen Xer and sci fi fan...and as such...I love Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy And so my friends...think of this episode as having nice friendly red letters that say...Don't Panic Look, I know it is easy to panic in a crisis. But you can over come that. Listen up for how. And if you want to do all your planning the easy way...go download the 12 Steps of HACCP to get started

2021 is going to be the year of habits around here. And today on the podcast we are going to start with the habits to get into to create the results you want in the world I'm discussing The Proofing Box method and the questions you need to ask to get your results.

Happy Holidays! Ready to get your food business going? Tune into our amazing conversation with Ted Lebow of Kitchen Table Consultants Learn what we wish you knew BEFORE you got started... And check out Ted here https://www.kitchentableconsultants.com/

Making sure that the equipment you use to monitor your product and process is incredibly important. There are certain things you need to do to make this work. Listen in for how to set up your calibration program. This is a great nitty gritty episode for everyone who is wondering the HOW of food safety, so you'll want to take notes.

If we have learned anything in 2020 it is that keeping our facilities and our people safe is pretty tough. We've got different competing needs that we have to balance and it is anything but easy. Let's make it a little easier. This episode is going to cover what to do to get your facility or farm secure as it can be. The approach, as our approach to all things, is through the HACCP planning process. Download the 12 steps of HACCP now by going to www.foodsafetyuniversity.com

There are 3 statements that make training effective. And I am 99% sure you don't know what they are, or why you need to agree with them. I am also 99% sure that every single corrective action you write has Training as an action.  Let me be the first to tell you...you are doing it wrong. More training isn't the answer. Better training is.

Truly, you can't talk about Sanitation too in depth here on FSU. Today I talk with Leon Witham, one of my favorite people in food safety. Leon brings an incredible level of dedication and service to our industry and his customers. There is probably almost no question on sanitation he can't answer.

This is the most 2020 thing to talk about. How we dress and how we protect ourselves and the product at work is a learned and learnable skill. You just need to DECIDE to learn it. You need to make the choice that doing PPE and personal hygiene the right way, every single time you do it, is an activity worth doing.

Wait what??! Episode 1? That's right folks...we are having a rebrand. The Smallholder Food Business Development Institute Podcast is now... Food Safety University Let's do it!

In food manufacturing you need a Customer Complaint program. It's something you've got to think about and document. I see so many of my clients freak out about them that they routinely get caught short in all the things they could learn from them. If that's you...here's the podcast that fixes that.

Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions... What are the steps?  What do you need to think about? Because for your program to be effective...you need to have harder conversations than you are having. You need to dig deeper and GO THERE. Stop pencil whipping this stuff. Use your mistakes to get better.

There is jurisdiction and there's authority. Who has what where in your business and what does it mean for you and your relationship with your regulators?

In the 6 step framework I introduced in Episode 103 I said it can be used for anything. Well, today we are going to deploy it for how to keep on keepin' on as COVID is our reality for some time. Today's episode will go over who is on your response team, what the scope of the problem is, who solutions apply to, what the heck the solutions are and the steps for implementation and continuous process improvement. This is a very important episode folks. Tune in, take notes and think. Helpful Links: https://www.fda.gov/media/141141/download https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-manufacturing-workers-employers.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/meat-poultry-processing-workers-employers.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-manufacturing-workers-employers.html#create-assessment-plan