What Created A High Powered Team
What creates a high-powered working team? One word. Trust.
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Boost Performance and Growth by Leveraging Agile & Waterfall
Incorporating Agile principles into a Waterfall methodology can offer the best of both worlds, allowing for predictability and flexibility in project management.
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Goals Done Right Will Help Growth
In today’s world goals are more important than ever and many leaders struggle with goals. In helping clients set and achieve goals, there are some common challenges leaders have around getting goals to work properly in their company. Here are five common challenges and how to work through them: Setting goals that are not SMART….
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To Grow, You Gotta Know
Company growth does not need to be as complicated as we might think. But, to get the results we want as a company, we must invest in 2 main areas: 1) ongoing personal growth for the leadership team and 2) working together to identify the company’s top priorities. These will prove to be the key…
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The Principles of Operational Effectiveness
Most companies when looking to improve their operations typically seek to implement a tool – 5S, Standard Work, Pull Systems, Total Productive Maintenance, etc. Tools are not the place to start if you want to sustainably improve your operations. When I tell companies, we need to start with three things – mindset, people and principles,…
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Process Improvement Planning
When it comes to improving operations, companies often jump in with both feet before they have developed a strategic process improvement plan. Someone reads about a methodology that claims can solve all of their company’s problems and they attempt implementation, often experiencing little to no success. The downside of this approach is that it focuses…
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Applying Strategic Thinking Skills for Organizational Success
If you Google the term “Strategic Thinking” you get 455 million results in about .64 seconds! There is certainly no shortage of information about “Strategic Thinking. However, leaders often get stuck where to start so I will focus on what you can do to get a “Strategic Thinking” dialogue going inside your organization. First, let’s…
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Transparent Processes: How to Hunt Down Systemic Flaws
If you were to map-out processes for your company, you may recognize what is referred to as a “systemic flaw”, the application of a single corrective measure can reduce or remove multiple process deficiencies. Dig a little deeper to solve the root cause A systemic problem is one that is inherent in the overall system,…
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QUALITY System – Asset or Expense?
Quality systems are one of the most important aspects of delivering a company’s brand promise to customers, but often it is thought of in a dismissive or minimized way. When faced with a change brought about by a newly revised Quality Standard, a CEO of a large aerospace company said, “you-quality-people are just overhead”. Do…
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Maximize Productivity with the Use of an Executive Assistant
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into an organization to teach time management skills to leaders and I learn that top executives do not have an executive assistant assigned to support them. This role is critical for a leader’s success and time efficiency. Do you have an executive assistant (EA) that helps…
