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. The goal is to succinctly identify the core factors at the root of the 50 – 70% failure rate of organization change initiatives and programs.

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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

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. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

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. You’ve made inferences about what matters to the person based on his/her position, department goals, public behavior and comments ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

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. Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Give people on the team the chance to get to know one another, build trust , voice expectations and goals, establish credentials, discuss roles , raise concerns, and understand why they are on the team plus why the other people are on the team. Their expectations and goals for the work. This approach is viewed by some as waste of time.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Specifically, become highly focused on who you are, what you stand for, and what your purpose is; identify the Top 20 Percent, Vital 70 Percent, and Bottom 10 Percent for each area of your life; achieve Six Sigma in all key aspects of your life and strive to accept nothing less than your best. The Not-So-Golden Rule.

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Six Sigma How To Self-aware Bottom-up 278

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Approaches like Six Sigma have helped companies squeeze out inefficiencies, but also tend to reinforce existing processes with an eye towards doing them better. Instead of working alone, partner with co-workers to achieve an explicit innovation goal. Additionally, managers are often schooled in slow, continuous improvement.

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There is a simple but significant way to help achieve that goal: Evaluate and compensate CEOs, at least partly, on their ability to create a culture of aligned, engaged employees. Through leadership development programs, Six Sigma, and constant communication we made long-term investments in our people.

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Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 12

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. High Performance Team Development & Leadership Workshop with Executive MBA’s. Complexity and Achieving Goals at Work.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Achieving the project goal within five days requires them to balance results and trust. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do. Our leadership measures and language also illustrate this gap.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Leaders have to place strategic changes, initiatives, and goals into a broader organizational context, or they risk losing good talent, burning out managers, and wasting money on programs that don’t pay off. People have to see why what they’re doing has to change, why they should suddenly be moving in a new direction.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

This is meant to be used during the meeting, you should have already chosen the team members , sent out an agenda for the meeting, and developed some goals/tasks to be accomplished. Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Below is one of the checklists from ‘ Quality Tools for Quality Teams ’. Referenced.

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Six Sigma Team Quality Delegation 142

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs. A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life. Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. With their goals aligned, the department was able to get rid of some of the hitches in the process, such as communication between siloed departments. Change management Execution Leadership'

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. In 2014, the U.S.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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