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

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

These include Basic Skills, Technical Skills, Management Skills, and People Skills. Time Management . Leadership. People management . Six Sigma techniques. Keep in mind that hiring managers are professionals with their own set of standards —so treat your resume the same way! Creativity . Networking .

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Skills Six Sigma Porter B2B 111

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

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

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The seven criteria include: Leadership. Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management. Process Management. They won the award in 1988, drawing attention to Six Sigma as an approach to quality improvement. Since then, Six Sigma has widespread use throughout our economy. Strategic Planning.

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Six Sigma Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Knowledge Management 92

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.

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Six Sigma Development Team Workshop 108

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 19, 2012

day training of Lean Six Sigma Master Belt Belts’ in Change Management, Project Management and Training Techniques. The above image was taken at a 2.5

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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

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

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 six-sigma project.

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Planning Skills Development Six Sigma 238

The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

A new study was recently published by the global management consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG). This framework covers six core areas: Structural Design, Roles and Collaboration Mechanisms, Processes and Tools, Leadership, People and Engagement, and Culture and Change.

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System Process Six Sigma Management 63

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

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. The executive/manager’s beliefs form his or her reality that drives behavior. Cultures are Built on Underlying Beliefs.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

And while this can work in a relatively stable organization without any significant leadership issues, it’s the wrong approach if you’ve never put any thought into your own leadership capabilities, as well as those of other people in important positions. Advanced Leadership Methodologies.

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Six Sigma Company CPA Finance 50

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Our choice is to manage this ongoing process and improve the things that can be improved, or ignore the process and decay. Effective execution of strategy ultimately requires change first in the behaviors and attitudes of senior leadership first (then, of all employees next) before processes can be changed.

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Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

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

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. Setting a precedent Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Teams must have leadership. Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Project Committee 136

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

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

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 66

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

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. Each of the logically ordered steps is clearly explained.” ” ~ D. Executive Behaviors & Motivators DISC® profile.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

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

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. And he discusses six sigma (which certainly has issues) but as I have written before if you want to learn what value six sigma offers listen to what Roger (and others such as Ron Snee, Gerry Hahn…) say.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

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. A major part of that problem is turnover.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. This process is called commitment-based management, and it will be as powerful for the next generation of managers as quality was for the last. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured. Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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

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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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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

The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

As I fine tune next week’s Leadership and Culture Development for Higher Health and Safety webcast presentation, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from the quality movement and the widespread failure to apply those to workplace safety. The webcast runs from 3PM-4PM EDT.

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Quality Six Sigma Deming System 49

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. Leadership and Management. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. ” Want More? References. 2010, January).

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

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