
Peggy Coffeen’s guest is a higher performer indeed: Sarah Daugherty, workforce development manager at Paramount Calves LLC, in Darlington, Wis. Sarah talks with Peggy about how she has saved herself the time and stress of constantly training new employees and the drag and drama of hard conversations to experiencing very little turnover and creating systems that support Paramount’s high-performing teams, which include 50 employees across three sites in Wisconsin and Kansas, who care for 25,000+ replacement heifers.
And these 3 hacks you are about to hear aren’t fancy. In fact, all you need to do it yourself are a few pieces of paper.
- The simple exercise Sarah walked herself through that has crafted the core of the culture at Paramount Calves
- The key benchmark she monitors for employee turnover
- And the hack she created with just four sheets of paper that changed the game on retention.
This episode is sponsored by Uplevel Dairy Podcast Founding Partner Adisseo, a global leader in nutritional solutions and premier provider of rumen-protected methionine for dairy producers who want to optimize milk production, capture more value from components, and maintain the health of their high-performing herds. Learn more at https://www.adisseo.com/en/
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