Viktor Skorenko: I feel worthy and protected in our company

Blitz interview with Head of the Zavorychi elevator of Agro-Region Group, Viktor Skorenko.

How did the Zavorychi elevator integrate into the Agro-Region structure?

Viktor Skorenko: The Zavorychi elevator became a part of the Agro-Region Group relatively recently. It was acquired with its team. Today, everything is adapted to Agro-Region standards, and the staff is fully loyal to the company. We’ve gone through selection, training, and the engagement of new employees. During this period, we prepared the equipment for intensive work on major crops, restored grain storage volumes damaged by shelling, repaired the perimeter fence, enhanced security, installed video surveillance, and achieved the desired level of labor protection.

Has your management style changed?

Viktor Skorenko: My management style is based on collective motivation and responsibility under the principle of “chain reaction”: everyone shares the burden of mistakes. There’s constant and selective delegation, increasing the competence of each individual, maximum engagement of all internal communication channels, evaluation, analysis, and task performance control. Everyone should know their role and prospects in the company.

How important is team unity?

Viktor Skorenko: We have defined “beacons,” leaders, pulling everyone into the core of the team. We create comfortable working conditions with the help of the owners, competitive advantages like transportation, meals, workwear, training, and a range of social benefits provided by the Agro-Region Group.

How do you motivate the team?

Viktor Skorenko: Our motivation is mostly non-material: healthy competition between shifts, fair labor relations among team members, mentoring, and task distribution with elements of interchangeability.

What influenced your choice of profession?

Viktor Skorenko: My case is unique, perhaps the only one in the history of Agro-Region. I’ve been employed by the company six times, in various management positions: first as a technical director, then dealing with land issues, and for the last two times, as the elevator manager. Overall, I’ve spent almost 14 years in the Agro-Region family. I love discipline, order, and beauty. The company has an unshakable reputation in Ukraine. It feels good to be seen as honest and decent, as my entire professional life has been in agricultural environments: starting as a veterinarian, then becoming the head of a collective farm, and further on in the fields.

What do you value most about the Agro-Region company?

Viktor Skorenko: I feel worthy and protected in our company. It takes care of me, and I defend it.