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August 23, 2010
Four Step Approach To Teams
We Should All Be Committed By Now © By Everest Consulting Group 2010 Some Recent Headlines Labor Department reported a 3.6% increase in employee productivity in the last reporting quarter despite record layoffs. Employee surveys shows job dissatisfaction has risen to as high as 50%. In a recent report for the first time in a long time there were more workers submitting their resignations then are being laid off.
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High Performance Teams Adds To Generic Formula For Success
Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. is among the top 20 pharmaceuticals companies in the world and a leader in the generic pharmaceutical market. Headquartered in Israel, Teva has manufacturing capabilities in Israel, Europe, USA and Mexico serving its target markets in Europe and North America
MORE November 30, 2009
THREE KEYS TO BREAKTHROUGH LEADERSHIP
Eighty-four percent of the people in a typical organization are individual contributors, meaning that they report to a first-line supervisor. As a result, the leadership abilities of your first-line supervisors determine the performance of most of your people. Are the supervisors in your company fire-fighters or leaders?
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THE BIGGEST BARRIER TO REAL TEAMS: TRADITIONAL SUPERVISORS
No matter what kind of training you give your individual contributors, if you still have traditional supervisors, your efforts to implement teams will fail. Why?
MOREApril 28, 2009
The Downturn: Making Lemonade
The Day Innovation Died October 6, 1973 may one day be remembered as the day the US auto industry died in the same way Don McLean’s song “American Pie” immortalized in song the day the music died.
MOREJuly 2, 2006
WANT STRONG TEAMS? DON'T BE A WIMPY LEADER
Is it wrong for a manager to use his/her authority in a teaming environment? No. In fact, some employees will oppose teaming, and if you do not correct them your teams will disintegrate. I will give you an example based on a situation that actually happened. In it, Pete the supervisor brings Roger the plant manager a problem, and Roger knows how to use his authority appropriately.
MORE October 12, 2005
Labels Are For Groceries Not For People
It's Not The Difficult People, It's The Difficult Behavior
It’s a human tendency to identify people as being difficult or easy to get along with and that affects how we interact with them. The question is - are some people difficult or is it their behavior that bothers us?
MORE April 6, 2005
The Competitor Within: Complacency
Complacency: A feeling of self contentment or satisfaction; gratification. (Definition provided by the American Heritage Dictionary 2000) Some months back in an interview the Chairman of Toyota, Hiroshi Okuda, identified complacency as his biggest fear for the company’s future.
MOREFebruary 3, 2004
Drop the Toolbelt and No One Gets Hurt!
The issues facing manufacturers today aren’t new but certainly for many sectors there is a new urgency. Global competition is changing the rules on how to compete and the change is not temporary. Ten of the top forty exporters in China are US companies. Unfortunately there a tremendous number of small and mid sized companies who don’t have this as an option and they’re scrambling.
MORE March 25, 2003
What Would You Give To Be On A Team?
The fact is most people won’t give up much voluntarily to be on a team. A successful supervisor can get each member to believe that by making the team’s goals the first priority they’re satisfying their individual goals. This sounds so simple but it’s much easier said than done. We have evidence that establishing team performance measures alone doesn’t solve this problem.
MORE November 19, 2002
WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR SUPERVISORS?
Almost every organization we’ve talked to over the past few years has hired or trained a dedicated staff of “process improvement experts.” They are called (among other titles) continuous improvement coordinators, kaizen event leaders, lean manufacturing coordinators, six-sigma black belts, or more recently, lean-sigma team leaders.
MORE August 10, 2002
LEAN TO STAY
Timothy Aeppler, in a July 1st, 2002 Wall Street Journal article, ”Tricks of the Trade, On Factory Floors, Top Workers Hide Secrets to Success”, writes about Blackmer/Dover Resources Inc. in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He recounts how the management team bypassed the floor workers in making improvements to the manufacturing process. After failing miserably the management team was fired...
MORE January 16, 2002
SHOULD TEAM MEMBERS ROTATE THE ROLE OF TEAM LEADER?
Should team members rotate the role of team leader? We say NO.
MORE August 30, 2001
MODIFY YOUR OPEN DOOR POLICY AND BECOME A BETTER LEADER
The "open door policy" sounds good. Anyone can walk into your office at any time to discuss any issue. At first glance, it seems to promote openness and communication. What it does not promote is your ability to be a leader. If you want to be the type of manager or supervisor who takes the initiative to improve your department instead of spending every day reacting to (literally) every problem that comes walking through your door, you need to spend at least one hour of uninterrupted time by yourself each day to work, think, and learn.
MORE September 17, 2000
HOW TO GET EMPLOYEES TO THINK OF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS
Are your first line supervisors fire-fighters or leaders? Fire-fighters (also known as traditional supervisors) do little more than administrative work and conflict resolution. Leaders (also known as coaches) motivate their people to improve quality, cost, and speed for the benefit of everyone in the company.
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