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Many inherit a fiddle in their grandfather’s will. Few know how to play it like a rockstar. I’m teaching my 3-year-old how to play the fiddle. Theoretically, that sounds great, but let me tell you, it doesn’t sound that great.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time to recognize achievements and successes, a time to acknowledge the service and efforts of your employees, and a time to celebrate it all with a killer holiday party.
For many in the dairy industry, personal strengths are typically working with cows, equipment and running the farm. As farms have expanded, managers have had to hire outside help to keep the farms successful and growing. With the addition of employees, many owners and managers have had to adjust their management practices and learn to work with different personality types.
The milking parlor is the “heart” of your operation. It’s the harvest point for you and your herd’s hard work – but with all the other complexities of running a dairy, it can be taken for granted and overlooked.
As we exit the pandemic, I believe the greatest challenge for essentially every business – including dairy farms – is hiring and retaining a great workforce.
They say the most valuable, yet free, investment is to recognize and show appreciation to your employees. This cannot be truer now with our struggles to retain good people, let alone find anyone to fill our positions on our dairies.
Change is hard – especially for cows, who are creatures of habit even more than we are. Any changes in a cow’s routine can quickly add up to compromise her health and performance.
What is going on in the mind of your partner when they are about to hit that alarm clock?
Are they thinking about what has to get done today with excitement or just hitting snooze and getting another 20 minutes sleep?
Locating, recruiting, onboarding and retaining good workers on dairy operations has become a huge concern nationwide, whether you’re milking 100, 1,000 or 5,000 cows.
What causes you to “foul up”?
Cognitive distortions are habitual thought patterns that cause people to view reality in inaccurate – and usually negative – ways.
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