N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. According to LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report, 94% of employees would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development.

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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. The 10 Pitfalls are from ‘Six Sigma Team Dynamics’ George Eckes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Olsher has developed a three-step process to help you uncover and reconnect with your natural strengths, identify the vehicle you’ll leverage to share your gifts with the world and the specific audiences who’ll benefit most from your gifts. will help you get to gain control over your life rather than letting it happen haphazardly.

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Six Sigma How To Self-aware Bottom-up 284

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Developing::Leading::Be a part of High Performance Teams Thursday, October 07th, 2010 Posted by: mike ASQ Buffalo NY Lean Six Sigma Conference. The slide show information for the workshop I am facilitating with for the 2010 ASQ Buffalo Lean Six Sigma Conference. Powered by WordPress.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. There’s a lot more to leadership development than reading a good book or two. Those that get picked for a post will receive a free copy of my eBook. This question from Kathy L.: “Why, Why, with Ken Blanchard, John C. I love this question!

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Management Six Sigma Leadership Short-term 298

Rich Gee Group

APRIL 26, 2022

The Fade Cycle is a powerful tool to help you stand back, analyze the issues with data, develop a solid solution, and execute with confidence. History: The FADE model was developed by Duke University, analyzing the acronym into four steps — Focus, Analyze, Develop, and Execute.

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Gantt Chart Tools Six Sigma Management 195

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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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.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. I was about to teach the customer segment of a Six Sigma class near Palmdale, CA, for Lockheed Martin. The benefits were significant. Fun Leaders Are Light.

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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.

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Six Sigma Management How To Short-term 180

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the first phase, they highlight how companies were focused on process improvement via approaches such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. This phase then evolved into a more complete focus on the satisfaction of customers, with various tools and models developed to ensure this happened.

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Marketing Six Sigma CRM Drucker 124

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

One failing in most business improvement approaches is the tendency to develop new or ideal processes on paper, without addressing elements of human behavior and human nature. Perhaps it’s an over-reliance on highly data-driven methodologies like Six Sigma or lean.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

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.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

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.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio 8 Ways You, team-member, Can Do Your Best Work Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Posted by: mike Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams. michael cardus is create-learning Referenced From Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Reputation ? Others’ perception ? Control over events or departments ? Saving face ? Concerns about a relationship ? michael cardus is create-learning image by by Emergency Photography.

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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. There’s no substitute for developing others. Pennies aren’t worth much in today’s dollars, but add a few zeros on the end and it adds up quickly. Bonus: Unrealized potential of human capital.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Transportation 120

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. Click here to view the Practical Leadership and Culture Development Services webinar.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Methodologies abound to help organisations achieve process excellence, be that through lean, six sigma or BPM. The survey, conducted by Fierce Inc, found that best practices in areas such as professional development failed in their goal of helping employees.

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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. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Six Sigma techniques. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing. Best Resume Tips.

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Skills Six Sigma Porter B2B 111

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. History teaches that tectonic change can be an agent of organizational destruction or renewal. It all depends on how we respond. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work.

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Six Sigma Workshop Video Continuous Change 61

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Higher results in project teams can come in the initial phase when the project teams have expertise in project management skills.

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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.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The Value-Based Performance Improvement Model © is an affordable approach that healthcare providers can use to develop a Lean Six Sigma style performance measurement system. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. Scot Park is a Principal and co-founder of Artower Advisory Services.

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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.

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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. But many companies are older organizations and are simply staid and entrenched.

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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.

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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.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Engineers are trained to identify problems and come up with a solution; they are steeped in LEAN and Six Sigma. It’s also not just about hiring more good engineers.”. “But they are not set up to take risks, to be innovative, and try new things out,” Altman adds.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When developing any project, the first step is to consider the perspective and needs of the customer. Implement Lean Six Sigma (DMEDI). Once you understand the core principles and benefits associated with lean project management, it will be time to apply what you’ve learned. To do so, take the following steps.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

But for this to truly be the case, innovation should not be something that happens every once in a while; it should be viewed as a critical competence – a skill to be developed, fostered, rewarded, and embedded into the workforce. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 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.

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Six Sigma Resistance Reference Report 78

The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

As I fine tune next week’s Leadership and Culture Development for Higher Health and Safety webcast presentation, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from the quality movement and the widespread failure to apply those to workplace safety. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing. shirts, coffee mugs, and so on.

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Quality Six Sigma Deming System 49

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.

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