Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Originally this was written for a workshop called ‘Long Term Implementation of Lean Six Sigma within Organizations’ … and with some changes the content is applicable and valuable to anyone who manages, works on, and puts work teams together. Using Facilitative Leadership to Eliminate Personality Differences. What do you think?

Six Sigma 139

Six Sigma Team Resistance Teamwork 139

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference.

Six Sigma 108

Six Sigma Development Team Workshop 108

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

Six Sigma 119

Six Sigma Team Building Conference Comparison 119

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

This is meant to be used during the meeting, you should have already chosen the team members , sent out an agenda for the meeting, and developed some goals/tasks to be accomplished. Developing these items will open-up the discussions and innovation to move your team and you forward. Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

Six Sigma 142

Six Sigma Team Quality Delegation 142

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

You can have all the great plans, Six Sigma quality programs, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence and creativity to pull it off, you’re finished.

Six Sigma 180

Six Sigma Management How To Short-term 180

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Effective execution of strategy ultimately requires change first in the behaviors and attitudes of senior leadership first (then, of all employees next) before processes can be changed. Perhaps it’s an over-reliance on highly data-driven methodologies like Six Sigma or lean.

Six Sigma 122

Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

Management 133

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

Project 109

Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams.

Six Sigma 98

Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last week’s follow up leadership and culture development webinar is now available for you to review. The session outlined our implementation steps, approaches, and Client examples for leadership, organization, and culture development. How many people typically attend the retreat?

Webinar 56

Webinar Six Sigma Development Senge 56

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Unlike most strategic planning models/frameworks that can be daunting, the Six Disciplines methodology is practical and pragmatic. Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. ” ~ D.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 16, 2015

You don’t need to be in a profit-producing role or be Six Sigma certified to be a productivity leader. It’s a leadership responsibility to identify and drive out waste when we see it. From a leadership standpoint, don’t forget your number one investment: your talent.

Products 120

Products Productivity Six Sigma Transportation 120

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. Courageous shared leadership. That’s courageous leadership. Cultures are Built on Underlying Beliefs.

Six Sigma 49

Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Leadership. Six Sigma techniques. Strong Work Ethic. Self-Confidence. Handling Pressure. Conflict Resolution. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness.

Skills 112

Skills Six Sigma Porter B2B 112

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma.

Altman 86

Altman Six Sigma COO Energy 86

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

&# This draws from The Three Rings of Perceived Value model we developed at The Achieve Group (now part of AchieveGlobal) and featured in my second book Firing on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered Corporate Performance.

Quality 56

Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components. Personal development (or self awareness being the more accurate description) does not come from reading a few books or attending the odd seminar. It will cover: How “Soft&# Leadership and Culture Produce Hard Results.

Six Sigma 53

Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Instead of tired practices like ‘active listening’ (whereby one is taught to parrot back what someone says, which only shows that you heard what was said, not that you understood), our teams must develop a new set of competencies in which they learn to clarify what they interpreted in a conversation, not what they heard.

Six Sigma 64

Six Sigma Products Productivity Chief Executive Officer 64

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

Products 69

Products Productivity Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than designing information systems to manage the movement and protect the security of information, we should be developing and continuously redesigning information systems that enable people to more effectively communicate with one another, coordinate their efforts, mobilize their resources, and take action. Shift Your Understanding.

Products 63

Products Productivity Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Having my start in training and development while working for Bic in Charlotte NC. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. That time really impacted my life.

Team Building 122

Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

And while this can work in a relatively stable organization without any significant leadership issues, it’s the wrong approach if you’ve never put any thought into your own leadership capabilities, as well as those of other people in important positions. Advanced Leadership Methodologies.

Company 50

Company Six Sigma CPA Finance 50

Mike Cardus

APRIL 10, 2022

Rath & Strong’s six sigma team pocket guide. Had Beth considered the Checklist email challenges and avoiding them before sending her message, she likely could have gotten what she needed when she needed it. Federico, M., & Beaty, R. McGraw-Hill.

Six Sigma 78

Six Sigma Resistance Reference Report 78

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Team Building meaning allowing the team to know why it is together; working through a purposeful process to develop trust early on, and building the team to have shared expectations and knowledge of what to do and how to do it.

Project 132

Project Team Tips Succession 132

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As such, it becomes imperative to develop competence at knowing how to listen for, design, and intervene in the critical conversations of the business as they literally shape the future. Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. Decision-Making Warning Flag 2 – The Silent Nod.

Products 50

Products Productivity Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

Ohno 50

Ohno Products Productivity Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

If I had to single out the leadership job that's hardest to do, I'd say head of sales. Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. They coach and develop talent. That means that sales leaders need to put a premium on developing the capabilities of their staff.

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Leadership Metrics Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). And "What can we do now to ensure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past?"

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Approaches like Six Sigma have helped companies squeeze out inefficiencies, but also tend to reinforce existing processes with an eye towards doing them better. For example, one divisional leadership team decided to spend every Friday morning focusing on how they could develop business for "the year after."

Innovation 18

Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.

Middle Management 16

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylor Taylorism 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

We consulted with Stuart Hart , the best-selling author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World and an advocate of immersion in unfamiliar circumstances, and with CDC Development Solutions in order to gain insight into how we could make the projects a success. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D.,

Govindarajan 16

Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

CEO 17

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 13

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Human Resources Participative Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In this case the leadership team decided to focus on creating long-term value, not quarter-by-quarter improvement, through a values-based culture with empowered employees. Through leadership development programs, Six Sigma, and constant communication we made long-term investments in our people.

Long-term 14

Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. And by training them, you can demonstrate your commitment to their development.

Process 15

Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For instance, at GE, led by Jeff Immelt and Beth Comstock, we are learning in real time with GE's Innovation Accelerator how an organization long focused on Six Sigma, the antibody of innovation and entrepreneurial discovery, can help its leaders develop a discovery mindset for those situations where there are many unknowns and uncertainties.

Creativity 15

Creativity Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur 15