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.
Cow Chow to Avoid the Sick Cow
In this GPS Dairy Vlog, Nathan discusses his top three gold standards of first cutting and how you can do your best to put up clean haylage and avoid sick cows.
Mayhem in March
The mayhem of basketball in March became one of my favorite times of the year. There’s something about the underdog defeating a higher seed, a buzzer beater to win the game, and most of all the comradery of the fanbases working to help their team gain an advantage. The teams that advance have players that understand if they trust the process, do their job to the best of their ability and are prepared to handle adversity… good things will happen. While the mayhem of basketball games keep me entertained, I find myself thinking about ways to minimize the potential for mayhem in the digestive tract of our cows.
A Software Love Affair
Integrating new software into your team can feel like a blind date. Worse yet, a speed date followed by an arranged marriage. This shotgun arrangement may not end well. But, there is a better way…
WARNING- Avalanche Possible!
I want to provide a brief update on what our team is seeing with new crop corn silage across different regions. The one common complaint has been silage collapses/avalanches that result in days’ worth of feed falling from the silage face. as well as a mycotoxin update. Mycotoxins are commonly looked to if we are experiencing abnormal cow health and/or repro performance on herd. Somewhat like an avalanche in the sense that things unravel a bit, you want to get ahead of it before much bigger issues arise. Read more to get the entire update.
Developing Self-Leadership
In this month’s vlog, Andre discusses what happens when you put a leader in the right place. What’s the difference between a “boss” and a “leader”? What is self-leadership? Watch the vlog to see Andre go over what happens when you put a leader in the right place and what that means for your farm’s standards, goals, benchmarks and team development.