That's a Wrap!

And just like that 91 days flew by.

Let me sum up my summer as the New Holland Network Development (ND) intern:

Project #1: Updating a previously written manual to articulate the ND departments current strategies, tactics, systems, operations, and functions.

Title:  "Understanding the Strategy & Role of Dealer Network Development"

Total Work Time: 91 days

Pages: 68

Words: 9, 264

Sections: 6

Scheduled Editing Sessions: 10

 

Status: COMPLETE!

 

Project #2: Update the policies in Dealer Policy Manual to validate the Dealer Agreement.

 

   Total Policies to Update: 9

Total Work Time: 3 hours per week

Collaboration: 12+ people



 

Status: 90% complete; waiting on external party validation

 

 

Added Value Experiences:

 

- Baltimore Port Trip

          Purpose: to learn about the process and management of importing and exporting equipment

 

Cranes seen during the water tour of the Baltimore Harbor

 - Photoshoot

          Purpose: to be hands on with the Marketing and Brand Communications departments in creation of effective promotion & advertisement

 

 

- Traveling with Northeastern Market Representation Manager (MRM)

          Purpose: to learn how the ND strategies and plans are carried out in the field in addition to career shadowing a field employee

 

 

New Holland Internship Program Activities:

 

- Family Farm Days

           An annual 3-day community event to promote agriculture which New Holland sponsors. As an intern I was a tour guide, tractor driver, ice cream scooper, and loaded and unloaded wagons.

 

Loading wagons at Oregon Dairy's Family Farm Days

 - Hershey Park

           The sweetest place on earth for chocolate and amusement park rides.

 

The Sweetest Place on Earth

 - Building 39 Softball Team (CHAMPIONS)

            Wednesday evening company softball, where I hit my first home run and the team brought home the trophy.

Team #3

- Ride and Drive

             Test drove pieces of equipment from Case and New Holland Brands.

 

New Holland Windrower

 

So the question remains... Would I come back?!

 

The answer is YES, and for 4 reasons:

 

1. The people

2. Company culture & environment

3. Opportunity to travel

4. Positional & departmental movement

 

Coming into New Holland as an Ag. Ed. major, my goal was to discover if I could and would want to make it in a corporate world. Prior to the internship I did not think I had what it took, mostly due to my lack of accounting and financial background. I thought everyone needed to be a numbers wiz to survive and excel in a corporation. Man, I was wrong. It takes people from all different academic backgrounds to make a corporation purr.

 

Working through my main project, the manual, I realized that my skill sets and personality was the right fit for the ND departments internship project. I was able to take previously developed skills and utilize as well as enhance them. For example, written communication. I was challenged to write technically and not creativity. In addition, I learned functions of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word that I did not know existed. Having "experts" all around me that utilize these programs and their functions everyday was a blessing when trying to be efficient in formatting a document. Lastly, developing, implementing, and executing the process of the manual was a skill that I learned. Having the support of my managers along the way, I not only created the manual but developed a multi-step, two-phase process to implement and execute.

 

To wrap it all together, my managers guided this Ag. Ed. major through a comprehensive project of taking someone of zero knowledge to being able to articulate processes, systems, operations, and functions of an entire department in 91 days. I am excited to have completed the manual but more appreciative of the willingness and time each person invested into me to make sure I was fully equipped to accomplish my project. The project allowed me to interact with various personnel throughout New Holland as well as get to know my department extremely well. New Holland equipped me with confidence to pursue the corporate world as well as with skills that I can utilize my last year of college and into a career.

 

 

 



I'll Take You For a Ride in my Big BLUE Tractor

This summer I have the opportunity to intern and be a member of a prominent agribusiness located in my hometown of Lancaster County, PA. New Holland Agriculture, which is a brand within Case New Holland Industry (CNH), has it's North American Headquarters campus located in the town of New Holland, PA. I am 1 among 19 interns located at the New Holland Campus, whom will be engaging in the internship program New Holland offers every year. 

New Holland is Celebrating their 120 Years

What has made my first two weeks exciting and welcoming have been the people, starting with my fellow interns. We each hail from universities and colleges all across North America and we embody a variety of majors consisting of engineering, marketing, business, agribusiness, and agriculture education as well as come from a diversity of previous agricultural experiences. From my first two weeks, I have already learned more from this group of interns through comparing and contrasting of my hometown and university to theirs then I have in combination of my past two interning experiences. Not only have they offered fun facts and information, but the four other interns that work in the same building as I do have all joined our buildings softball team for the summer. (Unfortunately we lost our first game) 

In addition to the interns, the employees of New Holland have exceeded all expectations. They made that first impression that professors continually teach us about, one that should be remembered. Having four straight days of meetings with all the directors and managers of our building was a lot, but collaboratively they set the stage for how the entire company functions and the atmosphere in which they work. Ever person we encountered was skilled, intelligent, dedicated, hardworking, progressive, and caring. They wanted each of the interns to experience and learn all they can this summer and they are willing to help out in any way to accomplish that. They were also interested in where we come from and what our goals were for the summer, which is refreshing and exciting as an intern to know they want us here as much as we want to be there. What ultimately blew my mind, was the career paths many of them took to be in their current positions within the company. Many worked within different departments requiring different skills and knowledge that they needed to be successful. This showed me the caliber of who I am privilege to work around all summer, in addition to the effectiveness of the company's structure, in they way they continually develop their employees skill sets and knowledge.

After four days I was able to return to my cubical housed in the Network Development (ND) Department where I will be working this summer. Talk about expectations being blown, what until you hear about this department! Most importantly I have felt nothing but comfortable around the employees within this department. They are open to having me ask questions, they continually greet me and engage in conversations with me, and include me in all their department meetings as well as invite me to attend all building meetings. Not only that, but they all are genuine during engagement. This is the atmosphere of New Holland in general though, which has made me excited to go to work each day. 

I have learned more in two weeks about this department then I have ever learned about anything. This is accredited to two factors. One being the people, particularly my manager, and the other being my project for the summer. Discussing my project will help you understand why my manager has been outstanding. My project for the summer is taking a manual previously developed in 2007 that outlines, describes, and provides understanding to the entire ND Department. My summer will be broken into two phases. The first phase is collecting information through research and interviews about the inner - workings of Network Development as well as the interrelatedness of other departments with ND. Phase two will be re-writing the manual. The purpose of the manual is to be able to give it to people who are new employees or need a detailed and thorough understanding of the workings of the ND Department. My manager has played the role of guiding me, by posing questions instead of telling me the answers and "how-to's" of the manual. This has allowed me to learn at an exponential rate but yet ensure my project is on track. In addition, he consistently reminds me of his open door policy to utilize his experience and knowledge of the department to bring concepts and information full circle.

Hopefully you can tell I am excited for the summer and what New Holland has in store for me. I have already been, and know I will be continually challenged throughout this summer. I am assured though I have been given all the support and resources I need to accomplish my task through the conversations and people I have met up to this point.