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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. I bought it many years ago while trying to learn more about TRIZ and problem-solving. You can do this by yourself. And the more you engage a team in conversations, the more we learn together, create team effectiveness, and drive solutions. What would that do?

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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Burnout and stress increase when people do not have effective tools and skills to manage work demands and when they don’t know how to move from “survival anxiety” to “change anxiety”. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

Hire Mike of Create-Learning to Think Differently & Enable Innovation within your company and team. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Learn ways to overcome “stuckness” in your thinking and quickly solve problems. What do you think? michael cardus is create-learning. 1.716.629.3678.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

An Additional outcome of this process, that was determined through interviews with the staff and Management team, was increased trust in the competence and effectiveness of the organizations leadership. michael cardus is create-learning. The process ended with the creation of an internal Director Leadership Program.

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Managerial Leadership Training Tool: Using DTC Operator Innovation Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Increased customer complaints about service and interactions. Overtime increased by 30% in 3 years.

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Executive Managerial Leadership Coaching: Case Study

Mike Cardus

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Ensuring that all the people are working to their personal capabilities.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

I truly believe that you need to strive to do things right the fist time. Clients would use the meeting to learn, and they would practice during the week, applying those learnings to their own business, researching and focusing their thinking on each module in turn. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S.

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