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#08 - Give your employees C.R.A.P: the success formula for building employee loyalty - Jeff Kortes, Jared Dueppengiesser and Jessi Schoofs Jan 03, 2023

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If you listened to Episode 1 of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, you may recall our guest, Jared Dueppengiesser, the impressive young manager at Milk Source’s Rosendale Dairy who talked about lowering employee turnover. One of the tools he credited with this was a book called Give Your Employees C.R.A.P.: The Success Formula for Building Employee Loyalty, by author and employee retention expert Jeff Kortes.
On this episode, Jeff joins us to talk about the success formula for building employee loyalty. And you are in for a treat because Jared is jumping on with us again, along with his colleague Jessi Schoofs, manager of Milk Source’s La Clare Family Creamery’s retail store, who is also applying Jeff’s concepts to her team.
What you’ll learn:
- What is C.R.A.P. and why does it work?
- How Jared uses these principles at Rosendale Dairy
- The C.R.A.P. coin and how Jessi uses it to empower her team
- C.R.A.P. in action
Jeff Kortes is an employee retention and recruitment expert and author of Give Your Employees C.R.A.P. and 7 Other Secrets of Employee Retention.

Contact Jeff Kortes:

https://jeffkortes.com/

414-421-9626

jeff@jeffkortes.com
Are you a manager who is stressed out by employee turnover and disengagement, but don’t have time to step out of the day-to-day to take classes and courses? We are developing the Uplevel Dairy Employee Management Master Class for you. Head to UplevelDairy.com to join the waitlist.
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#07 - The one word that will change your life in 2023 Dec 27, 2022

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What if you could sum up your goals and dreams of who you want to be and what you want to accomplish in 2023 in just one word? Hear from a mix of dairy owners, managers and allied industry as host Peggy Coffeen sits down with six inspiring friends to share their “one word” for the coming year and be inspired to choose your own word to uplevel yourself.
What you’ll learn:
- Each guest’s “one word
- What they envision that word looking like one year from now
- The game plans for making it happen
- How to choose your own “one word”
Recommended books:
- My One Word by Mike Ashcraft and Rachel Olsen
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- The Power of a Positive No by William Ury
- Unleashed: A Been-There, Rocked-That Guide to Radical Authenticity in Life and Business by Amber Swenor
- The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success by Ed Mylett
- The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight by Satchin Panda PhD
- High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard

It’s time to unwrap your gifts Dec 20, 2022

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A faith-filled message from Uplevel Dairy Podcast host and founder Peggy Coffeen on three very special gifts you get to unwrap during this Christmas season.
Discover your own unique spiritual gifts and how to use them here: https://therealyou.org/

#05 - From milker to manager: How to identify and empower high-potential - Daniel “Omar” Guerrero Dec 06, 2022

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Daniel “Omar” Guerrero knows his next top manager may be milking cows in the parlor right now. After all, that’s where he got his start. Now, 25 years later, Omar is an owner in Drake Dairy in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Find out how the 3,000-cow dairy is hitting its best numbers yet and why his phone rarely rings with employee troubles.
What you’ll learn:
- Why Omar’s phone doesn’t ring at shift change
- The top skills he looks for in high-potential employees
- Empowering people by trusting and listening
- From milking parlor to business partner: A real-life American dream
- How Omar is helping other dairies with employee struggles by matching them with animal science students from Mexico
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.
To learn more about Omar’s dairy employee placement program, he can be reached here: omar1277@msn.com; (920) 207-1301

#04 - The Mindset of a High-Performing Manager - Scott Blevins Nov 29, 2022

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Dairy manager Scott Blevins shares the habits, routines and principles that build his resilience and endurance to stay on top of his game while managing 6,500 cows, 6,600 youngstock and a team of people at Wiese Bros. Farms in Greenleaf, Wisconsin.
What you’ll learn:
- Staying physically, mentally and spiritually strong
- Finding balance in a non-stop business
- What Scott wishes he would have known 17 years ago when he started a career as a dairy manager
- Scott’s core principles that create the culture at Wiese Bros. Farms
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#02 - The Two Words that Will Get Employees to Care Today - Tom Wall Nov 10, 2022

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What if there was something simple you could do today that would build loyalty, get your employees to care about their work and make them want to stay actively engaged on your team for the long haul?
There is. And it comes down to two simple words. The “Dairy Coach,” Tom Wall is here to share with us today the two simple words that have the power to transform your dairy’s team and a plan to take action TODAY.
What you’ll learn:
- What’s the cost of employee disengagement?
- What dairies with the best employee retention do differently
- Quiet quitting
- The two words that will transform your team
- How to take action today

#01 - Zero employee turnover, how this herd manager does it at Rosendale Dairy - Jared Dueppengiesser Nov 03, 2022

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Jared Dueppengiesser has worked his way up through the Milk Source organization, from a herdsman to now manager of Rosendale Dairy. He leads a team of 52 employees on one of Wisconsin’s largest dairies. In this podcast, Jared shares how he took on the challenge of upleveling the culture of this dairy to be a place where people want to work and want to stay … with nearly zero employee turnover for the past half year. And he’s done all this at just 26 years old.
What you’ll learn:
- Jared’s vision for the culture he wanted to create at Rosendale Dairy
- What he does every day to create that culture
- Who is the most important employee?
- The tools that empowered him to take action
- The results of culture on employee turnover
- Jared’s best advice to others managing both cows and people
Meet the guest: Jared Dueppengiesser has worked his way up through the Milk Source organization, from an intern to a herdsman to now herd manager of one of Wisconsin’s largest dairies. He leads a team of 52 employees at Milk Source’s Rosendale Dairy.
A New York native, Jared grew up on his family’s 900-cow dairy before heading off to Cornell University. A natural leader and “people person,” he is proving his management skills at the young age of 26 years old. While people and building a culture for his team to thrive are his passion, Jared has never strayed from his love for being hands-on with cows. In fact, he and his family, along with partners Milk Source Genetics and Fischer, exhibited the Grand Champion Red & White cow at the 2022 World Dairy Expo, MS Ransom Rail Beth.
Jared recently married his lovely wife, Kristen, and they reside near Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Jared’s recommended books & podcasts on leadership:
- The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
- Give Your Employees C.R.A.P. by Jeff Kortes
- The Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
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.

Welcome to the Uplevel Dairy Podcast Oct 13, 2022

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What does it take to be a successful, profitable and competitive dairy farm business? This is the podcast for dairy owners, managers and advisors who are after their next level of success. Join Uplevel Dairy host Peggy Coffeen each week as she sits down with the industry’s leading dairy producers and thought leaders for real conversations about management, culture, leadership, family business, finance and human resources.
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