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:
Creating Team Synergy
In this week’s GPS Dairy vlog, GPS Dairy consultant Nathan Pokowski talks about three important pieces of team building: communication, addressing problems promptly and putting the right person in the right place. Tune in to hear more about these topics.
Tips for Resolving Conflict
In this vlog, Kristy discusses a few ways to help you, as a leader, resolve conflict. This includes being proactive, using key listening skills and WIIFM.
KPI: Keep People…
When we see the acronym KPI, we automatically think “Key Performance Indicator” and for any business, these indicators are an essential management tool to measure performance. In today’s blog, I challenge you to think about how you might define this same acronym, KPI, from a leadership perspective…
Your Team and Harvest
Harvest season, a time where everyone is working long hours, fueled likely by Red Bull and determination. We are inundated with kernel processing, moisture, dry matter, packing, and the constant “do we have enough help” question. As we know with many jobs on the farm, it takes a quality team. It is easy to overlook safety of employees; yet harvest season can be the highest risk for injuries to employees. Here are a few “trigger” areas to look out for: