Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2011

10 Team Dynamics That Get Results. Plus adding the tenth Team Dynamic. Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission. Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission.

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Team Six Sigma Project Committee 136

Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries.

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Resistance Six Sigma Supply Chain Stakeholder Analysis 184

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. Fun leaders are about light.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. Using change management methods, HR can truly take on the role of facilitator of organizational success. Project Management.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 19, 2012

day training of Lean Six Sigma Master Belt Belts’ in Change Management, Project Management and Training Techniques. Ask the team and yourself these 4 questions, create a shared agreement and you will see enhanced results. The above image was taken at a 2.5 What business need will be met?

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Six Sigma Document Training Participative 112

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

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. Teams must have leadership. Teams must have leadership. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

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.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

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.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2013

Maybe you’re a manager, and you’re just concerned about identifying and grooming successors for you own position, so that you’ll have a replacement ready when it’s time for you to move up or on. Managers often find it challenging to identify specific skills required for a role. Led a multi-function, diverse team.

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Planning Skills Development Six Sigma 238

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

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

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

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently I worked with the senior leadership team of a large warehouse and logistics company. As I listened to their leaders focus on hard processes, metrics, and systems it became crystal clear that the “soft skills” of leadership and culture weren’t even on their radar.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

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

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'

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 65

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. Leadership Lip Service: Behaviors Undefined and Underdeveloped. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work. Poor Assessment of Systems/Processes and Perceptions/Attitudes.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Managers find something wrong (i.e. In what ways can Managers, employees, and trainers work to improve the results? Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working.

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Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Contemporary management practices are geared toward ensuring stability and predictability, and avoiding surprises or ‘problems.’ ’ But innovation is unpredictable, even disruptive. Relate Articles: 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components. It will cover: How “Soft&# Leadership and Culture Produce Hard Results. The Peak Performance Balance: Managing Things and Leading People. Six Core Components for a Peak Performance Culture. Getting (Re) Started.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

It starts with the belief that service/quality is not the absence of defects as defined by management, but the presence of value as defined by customers. This developmental effort led to the expansion of our system to bring together service, quality, and our lengthy experience in the field of organization and leadership development.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

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.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Maxwell, and Warren Bennis books in abundance, do most people in leadership positions have no clue what to do?” Most managers (people in leadership positions) really don’t read books about leadership. This question from Kathy L.: “Why,

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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.

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 15

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.

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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).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF).

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Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

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.

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Six Sigma Team Quality Delegation 142

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. He also serves as a consultant to process and continuous improvement management programs.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

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.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. As brand thinking has been institutionalized, management has figured out ways to assign value to this "asset." So, if you are an enlightened executive in the post-Steve Jobs era, how do you grow and manage this emerging corporate asset?

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. 10 Team Dynamics That All Great Teams Share.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

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. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. What kind of return can shareholders expect, and when?

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. If you want to pair your managers with social entrepreneurs, here are a few things to consider: Prepare : Invest in preparing your participants in advance.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This view differs substantially from the relentless focus on efficiency that has characterized management thinking for most of the last three decades, but it is absolutely essential if companies are going to spur innovation and reignite profitable growth. In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results.

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Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Middle managers had to go back and forth between firing people and finding new ones with different skills, and few people believed that the yearly planning and budgeting cycle was anything more than a painful exercise, since it was always changing midway through. This is even more important when a new executive or team leader takes over.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. When we asked the managers what a better proportion might be, their answers were: 75% on day-to-day operations. Neither is true.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13