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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At its core, lean project management is about delivering greater value while minimizing waste. If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Improved team collaboration. Vincent Van Gogh. Here’s how to get started.

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Project Management Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing 83

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.

Six Sigma 150

Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

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.

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Six Sigma Team Building Conference Comparison 119

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. To discuss how this could be facilitated with your team and the value added contact Mike Now. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

Six Sigma 98

Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Team projects succeed of purpose. Project Manager / Team Leader – What to do.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 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. Identify a leader - a common mistake teams make is the failure to recognize that any team endeavor a leader must either be identified or emerge.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow.

Leadership 400

Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

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. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. It may be a tough message.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

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. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

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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Webinar Six Sigma Development Senge 56

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. 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.

Six Sigma 60

Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

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. Here is a checklist that will serve you in identifying the individual and perhaps team / organizational stakeholder interests.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation. The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business.

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Process Document BPR Six Sigma 66

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 Continuous Change Video 61

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

Six Sigma 65

Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 65

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. Managers find something wrong (i.e. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working. What do you think?

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Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

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. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Shift Your Understanding.

Six Sigma 50

Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

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. My next three posts will briefly overview each of the three rings.

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. The Peak Performance Balance: Managing Things and Leading People.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you picked a dream team to improve the way your organization does business, who would be on it? I know who would be on my team. Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Most managers (people in leadership positions) really don’t read books about leadership. That’s not the book I’d want to hand out to my management team to teach them how to lead, but I know of a few CEOs who have. I love this question!

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Management Six Sigma Leadership Short-term 298

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

One possibility is that managers don't really want their people to innovate, no matter what they say otherwise. Based on my experience, there are at least three (largely unintentional) reasons why managers send mixed messages about innovation. Managers may also fear that innovation will cannibalize current business.

Innovation 15

Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

Left to themselves, the Uruguayan team increased productivity, and this awoke healthy competitiveness from the Venezuelans, whose productivity rose as well. Global managers should pay attention to why Daniel's second attempt worked while his first one failed. They compete better in teams. This worked wonders.

Marketing 13

Marketing Team Six Sigma Teamwork 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. At GE, we use our corporate university to “inspire, connect, and develop.” We try and make it transformative.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). 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).

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. It doesn’t ask whether we need to do this activity at all.

Process 12

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Will Duke is Afterburner’s Director of Learning and Development.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Encourage the development of new language. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

High performance teams have known methods and procedures. They also have effective meetings that are managed by the Team-Leader. Below is one of the checklists from ‘ Quality Tools for Quality Teams ’. Does the team know the method and process being used for the meeting. Checklist for Running a Team Meeting.

Six Sigma 142

Six Sigma Team Quality Delegation 142

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. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. If a QIP is approved, physicians may claim Part IV MOC and continuing medical education (CME) credit; non-physician team members may claim CME credit. Authority and Structure. Distinguish QIPs from clinical research.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. To compound this problem, the project team declared victory after having only a process design and an energized work force.

Process 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14