Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Small Wins, Big Payoff.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

When a global technology company engaged us to train its entire workforce over the course of 2016, we took the opportunity to more thoroughly evaluate the impact of our trainings by surveying employees about their actual behaviors before, immediately after, and as much as eight months following our training. Make it action oriented.

Training 12

Training Diversity Workshop Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? More than 20% of employees took the training online or in workshops in the first few months of the program, and employee submissions to its sales lead and job candidate referral programs were up 43% and 19% respectively. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways.

Creativity 14

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal now spends 32% of its net media budget on digital channels, and saw e-commerce sales jump by 33% in 2016 alone. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) landscape is in the midst of a significant shake-up.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

A study of 5,782 physicians in 2016 suggested that some of this discrimination is specific to mothers, pointing to another big factor that seems to stop women from progressing: the “ Maternal Wall ” that women hit after having children. Developing workshops specifically for women of color.

Policies 12

Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. 4 – Building local capacity and getting out.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit. The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the past decade organizations have invested significant resources to try to address the gender gap in senior management. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. And as we all know, a half-day workshop just won’t cut it.

Team 8

Team Diversity Company Policies 8