Are Your People Skills Holding Back Your Performance?
If you have ever tried working through people skills and challenging situations, you know that they are not easy, in fact, they are very hard.
Human OEE
One of the things I love most about working in Manufacturing is seeing all of the creative ways people and companies find to measure processes and performance.
Data for Hiring
One of the hardest parts of leading any organization is hiring great talent.
Respect is Earned, Not Given?
Is respect earned, or given? For your own personal experiment, try this little exercise. Instead of waiting for people around you to “earn” your respect, lead yourself by giving them your respect first until and unless they show you a reason to do things differently. Give people your respect, and I bet most people will return the same to you.
Perseverance: A Will to Continually Improve
About 8 years ago my wife and I decided to take our then 5 and 3-year old on a hike up the trail near Rattlesnake Lake in Washington State.
A Culture of “Mistakes”
While working 2nd shift at Toyota I took the opportunity to eat lunch with my son at his school.
5 Steps to Creating an Awesome Culture
We all know that culture matters. Drucker is famously quoted with the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Continuous Improvement Stats You Need to Know
Gallup’s most recent State of the Global Workplace report indicated the following: 1) 85% of employees are not engaged or are actively disengaged, and 2) As a result of this, approximately $7 trillion of productivity is lost every year.
The Trust Factor: Cultivating an Approachable Leadership Team
Trust is a little word that carries with it a gigantic impact. Let’s talk about how we build and cultivate trust in the workplace.
Lean Thinking – To Go!
In Lean Manufacturing, we reduce and remove variation of the operators by developing the “least waste way” of doing a task. We typically call this Standard Work (Work Content, Sequence and Time Components).
