When I get to visit the Tribe Ranch I always get to feeling good about sharing how important understanding animal behavior is and the influence of that behavior through proper pressure and release of that pressure. 

The whole crew has been very interested in going about it to improve the way they interact with all animals and humans while working with animals. There have been lots of moments when things were not perfect and the emotions sometimes get pretty elevated, both positive and negative. The important thing to understand is you need to learn from these situations in how to make them better and if they are negative, try to keep them from happening. 

Being the lead in teaching or running a crew with livestock is tricky business. You have to push people, and while learning be willing to let people make mistakes, but still be productive and keep animals and humans safe and improving.  I still overstep and sometimes let my emotions get the best of me but I am getting better at controlling my emotions. 

I find working livestock with family and/or a crew it will cause you to do and say things you never say anywhere else. I find this a fascinating thing and have seen it all my life all over the world. If you want to be an effective leader, it is so important to communicate before and after and during working stock to keep this in check.  If not it will make it very difficult to be effective and not create animosity with working stock and having a crew that works together, rather than fighting stock and fellow workmates. 

The definition of Tribe is this:

a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.

This ties in perfectly with working as a group working livestock. The Tribe mentality is a great mindset to make it work. 

Some things to think about to improve stockmanship, and “humanship”

These are some clips of the Tribe working as a tribe!