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.
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…
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…