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

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

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

.’ … Cultural change is what you get after you’ve put new processes or structures in place to tackle tough business challenges. ” 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.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

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. Which Comes First: Process or Behavior? Many leaders address the change challenge in a very clinical fashion, going first for the process, the policy or the procedure.

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Six Sigma Resistance Fashion Process 122

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

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

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Process Improvement. Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. Though many try, the leadership team alone cannot implement a strategy. Strategic Planning.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Strategic Planning 124

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

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Teams must have leadership. All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Teams that can quickly create ‘what they want’ as opposed to ‘what they don’t want’ get work done and implement this process into the team Skilled-Knowledge. Share let us know.

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Team Six Sigma Project Committee 136

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. Poor Assessment of Systems/Processes and Perceptions/Attitudes. Leadership Lip Service: Behaviors Undefined and Underdeveloped. Not Building Cause and Capacity for Continuous Change.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

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

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Unlike most strategic planning models/frameworks that can be daunting, the Six Disciplines methodology is practical and pragmatic. Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. ” ~ D.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

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. Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four. Mark Lane, 2019).

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. Relate Articles: 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

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

DECEMBER 26, 2013

They are the ones who design or tolerate the practices, processes, structures, moods, and measures that create it. 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 70

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. Bolt-on Programs versus Built-in Processes. Six Core Components for a Peak Performance Culture. Leadership is an Action, Not a Position.

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Six Sigma Workshop Seminar Self-aware 53

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

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. We were searching for a simple way to bring many of the service/quality improvement approaches into a common framework that allowed them to work together.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

There is no structural or process change that can overcome deeply entrenched degenerative moods. Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. In fact, Gallup reports that employee disengagement costs American companies about $350 billion annually. Mood is everything.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. 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

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. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing.

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Quality Six Sigma Deming System 49

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Carnival of Human Resources or Leadership Development Carnival ) in that it features a collection of blog posts from various authors that relate to given subject matter.  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you.  Enjoy!   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. A few said it was because people didn't follow the methodology (e.g., As Zeus Inc.'s

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Do you have a process improvement program under way that you feel is going well? When the company declared its "reengineering success" and the publicity machine ramped up, it had a new business model on paper — a process blueprint, a series of cultural changes under way, and a pilot of the new business model just starting.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2012

Leading team building & leadership consulting, coaching and training for several different sectors, levels of organizations, and people. Front line employees need hands-on real time concrete process training to improve their work in a day to day operations. Manufacturing is a place of that I enjoy working.

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Team Building Training Team Teamwork 122

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

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 People weighed in, and then they changed the process.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals. It is an expression of a company’s ideal for leadership excellence. Deep leadership involvement is essential. Establishing a corporate university is a big deal.

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Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

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. Authors James D. Murphy and William M. Pilots got a lot better.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Team Building meaning allowing the team to know why it is together; working through a purposeful process to develop trust early on, and building the team to have shared expectations and knowledge of what to do and how to do it. How much time they may be able to offer to the project. Time spent on teambuilding pays off in team effectiveness.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Then: commit to a process by which the potential leaders they consider will be honestly, consistently assessed against those criteria and a winner will emerge. Someone prevails and others, eager to wrap up this sensitive and time-consuming process, capitulate. Why is the early narrowing of criteria so important?

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

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. For example, one divisional leadership team decided to spend every Friday morning focusing on how they could develop business for "the year after."

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 15

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Olsher has developed a three-step process to help you uncover and reconnect with your natural strengths, identify the vehicle you’ll leverage to share your gifts with the world and the specific audiences who’ll benefit most from your gifts. will help you get to gain control over your life rather than letting it happen haphazardly.

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Six Sigma How To Self-aware Bottom-up 278