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Season 3, Episode 14

Here is a breakdown of the episode:

• Tell us about your experience as a dairy manager, at a time when that wasn’t a common title in the dairy industry. [~:55]
• What did your career path look like after that first dairy farm management experience? [~3:20]
• Every time a dairy adds cows, people must be added too. [~9:15]
• How does your experience having been a manager yourself play into your role today of improving forage quality on dairies?   [~10:15]
• Walk us through a hypothetical, yet typical, scenario that you see play out on a dairy that struggles to put up good quality forages. [~12:00]
• If I hear your correctly, you are talking about culture? [~14:00]
• How do you create that culture? [~15:15]
• What do you think establishes that culture of buy-in from employees? [~18:35]
• Putting up forage is just one example of where a communication lapse can occur, but a disconnect can occur in any other area on the dairy. Why do you believe this disconnect occurs?  [~20:00]
• Why are SOPs alone not enough to encourage employees to perform? [~22:20]
• What can dairy owners and managers do to have better communication and buy-in from employees?  [~25:00]
• What are your key “how-to” points be for communicating with employees? [~30:25]
• What would be another action item in effective communication? [~33:15]
• How do you effectively show employees appreciation? [~34:15]
• Rapid-fire questions [~35:00]

How to connect with Bill Eberle:

uswieb@chr-hansen.com

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