I have written about differing perspectives and how two people can experience the same thing and have widely different interpretations. Also, when we leave our home operations, we can shift to another way of seeing things. Recently, we had the opportunity to host visitors from other parts of the world and ask how they see […] Read more
VIDEO: A foreign perspective of Canada’s cattle industry
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
Conscious and subconscious brain: It’s all in our heads, or is it?
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
Simon Sinek, author and inspirational speaker, has some very interesting ideas on our brain and how it works. He relates our conscious brain to being in the range of two feet. We can access all the information that is in that two-foot area to make quick decisions. This is also the logical, thinking, rational part […] Read more
VIDEO: Positive psychology
Depth of File with Kelly Sidoryk
The other day when trying to determine price insurance coverage for grass yearlings, we received a text from our buyer: “This is not for the faint of heart.” This caused me to reflect on non-ag businesses who, from my perspective, do not seem to have to deal with so many variables beyond their control. However, […] Read more
VIDEO: Feedback and the Johari window
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
How is it so simple to see what those on the other side of the fence should be doing but not always as easy in our own operations? If only they calved later. Or seeded a different crop. Ran more machinery. Ran less machinery. Ran a different breed of cattle. Some reasons for this can […] Read more
Understanding our own paradigms
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
Many have heard me reference paradigms, either during presentations or in this column. Paradigms are the beliefs, values, assumptions and ways in which we view the world. Trying to challenge our own assumptions and thinking is one way to expand our personal growth. One of my beliefs is as human beings, we are meant to […] Read more
VIDEO: David Irvine on clarity, character and connection
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
While preparing for a recent holistic management conference which featured David Irvine as the keynote speaker, I came across a video that we had done at an earlier conference. Much earlier — 1990, in fact. Irvine is referred to as the leadership navigator. He has worked extensively with organizations, teams and families as a speaker […] Read more
VIDEO: It’s all about the people
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
In the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of touring around all three of our westernmost provinces for grazing plan workshops, holistic management courses and sessions related to the On-Farm Climate Action Fund. It still strikes me that we really are in the best industry in the best country and it is all […] Read more
VIDEO: Systems learning
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
In the early ’90s, leadership expert Peter Senge wrote a book called the The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. At the time, the ideas were a helpful guide to navigating the pace of change we were encountering. Now, over 30 years later, I think it is still relevant as it […] Read more
Sell-buy cattle marketing with Doug Ferguson
Learn how one producer applies sell-buy marketing to his own operation
When Doug Ferguson was a teenager, he had three things on his to-do list — have a family, ride bulls and raise cattle. Even back then he knew he had to make money doing the latter to support the other two aims. The cattle marketer grew up on a mixed farming operation in southeast Nebraska […] Read more
VIDEO: On memory and the art of remembering
Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk
There is a good chance the topic of memory is more of a concern to those of us in the over-forty category than the younger set. Forgetting things is completely normal, according to neuroscientist and author Dr. Lisa Genova. Genova’s book, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, explains that forgetting where […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
