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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career. Benefits: In many instances, quick, off-the-cuff 'executive' decisions are made to solve endemic problems (upper management is notorious for doing this — they know better than you).

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How to Become a More Effective Manager #WinningWell

Let's Grow Leaders

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. Managers who win well build healthy professional relationships with their employees.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. As such, it becomes imperative to develop competence at knowing how to listen for, design, and intervene in the critical conversations of the business as they literally shape the future.

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Mind the (Skills) Gap

Harvard Business Review

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

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.