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Progressive Dairy Podcast

Employee training with Michelle Schack

  • S7E4
  • 24:06
  • February 11th 2025

Veterinarian Michelle Schack joins host Matti McBride on this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast to discuss the importance of employee training and management. Learn more about why documentation, communication and repetition matters regarding training.

Here is the episode breakdown:

  • 0:50 – Schack’s background
  • 1:40 – The importance of documentation
  • 3:08 – Training at onboarding
  • 6:00 – Schack explains how DairyKind works
  • 7:20 – Schack’s suggestions for finding time for training
  • 11:30 – Bridging language barriers
  • 13:30 – Training is important regardless of operation size
  • 16:40 – How proper documentation can protect against animal activists
  • 22:35 – Rapid-fire questions

Progressive Dairy Podcast

The Progressive Dairy podcast is for U.S. dairy producers and their industry partners. Each helpful, informative episode serves as an on-the-go companion to the reliable, trustworthy information you find when reading Progressive Dairy magazine. New episodes are released every other week on Tuesdays.