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Are Your Leaders Spending Time Coaching and Developing Others?
"A good coach always coaches to a leaders potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly." ~Andy Stanley If you’ve ever been coached, or acted as a coach, you know that there’s lots of...
Do Your Leaders Have a Formal Self-Development Plan in Place?
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ―Ernest Hemingway Imagine how many people are comparing themselves to someone else. Really the only person we should be comparing ourselves to is who we...
Are Your Leaders Acting as Leaders and Managers?
Have you ever caught yourself saying, “That was the best boss I ever had?” But what does it mean? What sets the great boss apart from the average boss? While the terms leadership and management get used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same...
Is Your Leadership Team Engaged?
Engaged leaders are the type to jump in and proactively own the issues that pop up in day-to-day business. They also try to jump start the solutions needed to solve these concerns. They motivate others. They have the ability to keep people focused on the objective and...
Are you Analyzing Process Steps and/or are you Conducting Value Stream Mapping Analysis?
Growing up in West Michigan provided me with a landscape that was dotted with fields, farms, and silos. Silos were a necessity for the farms in my area. They provided a simple way for the farmer to keep crops and feed dry. Separation was a must and the silo provided a...
Do you Identify Customer Requirements and Discuss how to meet Demand Regularly?
Keeping your customers happy really shouldn't be that hard; you just have to give them what they want (right the first time), when they want it, and in the quantity that they need. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned. Part shortages, equipment breakdowns,...
Do the Majority of People View Your Organization or Parts of Your Organization in Process Steps?
I recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While there I took one of my days and visited Mackinaw Island. It was just a short ferry ride to be transported to another world. Mackinaw Island truly felt worlds away when you experience the lack of...
Do the Majority of People Operate With a Big Picture (Value Stream) Mindset?
How important is it that we see the big picture? Aren’t we just a tiny piece of a much bigger picture? Surely someone else will also be working on, or tending to this issue. Well, we might be surprised how many other people think the same way. One thing is for sure,...
Is Your Organization Designed to Share Information, Goals, Priorities, and Processes?
Can we all agree the '80's created some great music? I still remember walking down the street with a huge boom box on my shoulder. I even had the dual cassette tape set-up so we could record our own mix tapes. Ah, life was good! Or was it? The '80's were also the time...
Are Your Short Goal Setting Cycles Aligned With Your Long-Term Goals?
Your overall business strategy should be made up of short-term and long-term goals. If we fail to set and align long-term and short-term goals, we are setting our businesses up to fail. For example, a business may be laser focused on just this quarter's profits...
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