As the speed, uncertainty, and complexity of global markets intensify, leaders must learn to navigate this fast-moving landscape—by keeping their businesses on track amid adaptive change. Leaders must develop the agility to confront uncertain times by engaging the workforce through vision, understanding, and clarity. What will it take to achieve all of this? As part of our brand promise to Inspire Change and Grow Leaders GPS Dairy Consulting has included a leadership blog on our website. Our first year of weekly posts will focus on the basic leadership skills that coaches around the world have indicated to be the most important leadership skills. Each month one of these skills will be addressed by four professional leadership development coaches – one each week. Please visit the blog frequently. Feel free to include other leaders in your organization and tell your friends and colleagues. Grow your skills as a leader and inspire change in your organization.
Beat the Heat in Three Steps
As temperatures rise, cows will show they feel the heat – intakes decrease, meal patterns change, and metabolism and energy requirements are significantly altered. In order to help combat this, there are nutritional strategies we can consider to help offset heat stress and help maintain productivity.
Best Practices for an Excellent Haylage Harvest
Now that spring is here, I am holding pre-harvest meetings with my clients, and these meetings involve an assessment of the previous year’s harvest and quality, identifying areas of success and strategies for improvement. Additionally, we will go through the GPS FeedFIT 9-step process for harvesting high-quality haylage. While I will not discuss all 9 steps here, I would like to highlight my top 4 steps, which are: when to harvest, dry matter (DM), relative feed quality (RFQ) as well as filling and packing. Let’s dive into those steps…
Navigating Fatherhood: How Parenting Parallels Feeder Training
My first months as a father have been life changing. Welcoming our daughter brought immense joy, but the weeks that followed (with her in the NICU) challenged us to navigate her care and development. Reflecting on this experience, I realized many lessons I’ve learned in fatherhood also apply to how we train feeders. Both center around precision, patience and collaboration, emphasizing the importance of building a solid foundation for success…
One on One’s… No, this isn’t a Basketball Game!
Staying connected with your team, especially your direct reports, is essential to creating a productive and supportive work environment. However, with the number of tasks to complete each day, it seems this is getting harder and harder to do. To put more focus on staying connected, a few GPS clients have introduced a concept called “one on one’s” with each of their direct reports. So, what do these look like?
Dreaming a Vision into a High Performing Team
Through good fortune paired with some wise choices, I’ve had the opportunity to be part of three high performing teams in my dairy career, and most recently was a co-founder with two partners building from scratch GPS Dairy Consulting which has become a highly respected team of consultants. It’s been said that it first takes a far-reaching dream to develop a compelling vision, and in turn a vision with purpose to attract and build a high performing team. So, just how did a “good” team become the high performing team that built the GPS Dairy Consulting business? Here are a few things I’ve learned on the journey: