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.
Maximizing Profitability: The ROI of Transition Cow Facilities
In the world of dairy farming where efficiency and productivity are two of the most important factors, every investment is scrutinized for its potential return. While there are a myriad of factors affecting profitability on a dairy farm, the transition period continues to stand out as the most critical phase.
Four Reasons Every Farm Needs a Truck Scale
There is no need to emphasize the importance of managing feed costs in a dairy business. Between managing yields from cropping enterprises, purchasing feed, calibrating mixer scales and managing inventory, read more about the ROI of a truck scale on your dairy.
Align your Team to Achieve Your Dream
We’ve all heard about the impact that effective communication may have on your dairy. Today’s blog, however, focuses on a particular aspect of effective communication: communicating your goals, vision and dreams to your team around you. Too often owners and leaders at the dairy hold their vision and their goals close to their chest, either afraid to be pushed back against, viewing it as a secret for only a select audience, or viewing it as their priority area and not others on the team. Why might more awareness and alignment among your team help to achieve your goals? Here’s a few thoughts:
When Feeding Cows, Are You a Shotgun or a Rifle?
When it comes to hunting, using the right tool for the job is very important. In some regions of dense vegetation and close-range, a shotgun without a scope can be practical, but imprecise and less effective. For more precision, a rifle with a scope may work better. Being a better hunter depends on patience and practice, just like dairy farming. So, what does this have to do with feeding cows? When it comes to nutrients in the diet, be a scoped rifle, not a shotgun.
Be a Beauty Queen Instead of a Scream Queen
To me, data can be a beautiful thing. Yes, I am talking about all those numbers that are generated every minute, or even second, that tell the story of a dairy farm. When not maintained though, data can be more like a horror movie. You know the ones where only the monster makes it out alive. I know data isn’t always a straight line, but I also know that constant zig zags in dairy data can be frightening. There are so many data collecting programs on dairies, it can be overwhelming to think about and manage all the data being collected, much less know where to start when looking at it…