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Author :: Peter Peterka  |
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| Article Title :: Managing Teams And Six Sigma |
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Managing a Six Sigma team is a considerable responsibility. Six
Sigma is a team process and requires cooperation at many levels.
No one person can manage a Six Sigma project on their own. Just
as it is the organization that benefits from Six Sigma, it is
the organization that truly manages Six Sigma. Yet, that
management must be led by specially trained individuals.
Success in managing Six Sigma teams begins with the top of the
organization. Company leadership must give the teams the
resources and the authority to apply Six Sigma concepts to their
daily activities. They must also ensure that organizational
goals are aligned with Six Sigma projects and that any
roadblocks to Six Sigma deplo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Gina Gardiner |
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| Article Title :: Being Assertive |
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Many people find it extremely difficult to be assertive, whether
it is in the work place, or in their personal lives. All too
often, there is confusion between being assertive and being
aggressive. It is my belief that you lose credibility and the
moral high ground as soon as you show any signs of aggression.
There are some very simple principles to being assertive.
EXPECTATION
Expect to be listened to, you’ll be amazed at the difference
there is when you are mentally prepared. Think about the lion
tamer. If he shows fear the animal will know and attack.
Set clear expectations of yourselves and others; don’t expect
other people to read what is in your mind. Articulate exactly
what (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Matthew Bratschi |
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| Article Title :: Hollander Consultants Treasury Manager Flies to Louisiana to
Help with Disaster Relief |
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Pat Tiller Volunteers to Assist Katrina Victims
Portland, OR: Hollander Consultants’ Treasury Manager, Pat
Tiller flew to Louisiana today to help with Hurricane Katrina
disaster relief. He will be in Louisiana for a minimum of two
weeks.
A resident of Sandy, Oregon, Tiller has been a member of the Mt.
Hood Ski Patrol for the past 27 years and is certified in Mass
Casualty Incident training. As a certified Emergency Response
Coordinator, Tiller is experienced in setting up shelters and
medical areas for use in emergencies such as the devastation
caused by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama.
“I’m going to Louisiana because my help and my expertise are
needed. I (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Stephanie Tuia |
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| Article Title :: Management coaching to improve relationships with work
associates |
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As an employee, you are a fairly new employee at your job. You
have met the boss on two occasions; your interview and one time
when he or she demanded that you finish a client’s report. Your
boss’s unapproachable nature makes you feel uneasy if not a bit
fearful.
As the boss, you don’t have a clue that your workers are
intimidated by you. You are basically just concerned that they
do their jobs well and produce profit for the company. Your
impression of your co-workers is that if they don’t confront you
about a problem, then everything is right on target.
Work associates are people that have come together for one
common purpose; work. These working relationships are more
surface (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Cliff Hebard |
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| Article Title :: Management Coaching: The Heart of Performance Management |
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The semantics of training and development do a great job of
muddling the topic of human effectiveness on the job.
What, precisely, are the differences and similarities among
terms like “engagement” and “performance management” and
“performance appraisal,” and even “motivation”?
At the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness, we
mostly leave these questions to others. We focus instead on a
skill that drives any and all of the above – regardless of
terminology. In fact, it has been our number-one workshop for
more than 25 years.
It’s not trendy, perhaps, to work on coaching skills. Yet we see
a growing demand for leaders and managers who know how to
colla (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Mike Beitler |
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| Article Title :: 7 Essential Elements of Leading Change |
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In my practice as an organizational effectiveness consultant,
the most frequent phone call I receive involves clients and
prospective clients asking how to overcome resistance to change
in their organizations.
Throughout my book, Strategic Organizational Change, I recommend
a strategy-driven approach to planning and implementing change.
Unfortunately, many organizations do not follow a systematic
approach (my approach or anybody else’s) for planning and
implementing change.
An Unworkable “Plan”
Most organizations still attempt the following “plan” for
organizational change:
1. senior management determines that a change is needed 2. the
CEO announces the change to “the troop (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Clive Simpkins |
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| Article Title :: CEOs play chess with people |
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The last thing I want to do is rain on someone’s parade. But the
media coverage surrounding Standard Bank South Africa’s CEO
Jacko Maree, riding on the back of the organization’s excellent
half-year financial results, bears a little tempering. There’s a
global shift away from regarding and treating staff as
expendable commodities. I fear, based on the CEO’s media
comments that this trend has not yet struck a chord in the heart
(if that isn’t an oxymoron) of Standard Bank leadership.
The intended retrenchment, due to be implemented in December
2005, of some 360 workers from the bank’s retail distribution
network has largely slipped off the media radar. The bank gives
as its ra (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Mike Beitler |
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| Article Title :: Identifying Candidates for Leadership |
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A critical task in the succession planning process of any
organization is identifying candidates. Traditionally,
candidates have been identified based on past performance. While
this seems logical, it is problematic in practice.
Past performance always measures success in a lower-level
position. What is needed in succession planning is a system to
identify potential for success in a future higher-level
position. The best predictive model I have found is the
Leadership Pipeline Model by Charan, Drotter, and Noel.
The Leadership Pipeline provides a model that describes the
skills, time applications, and values required to succeed at
different levels in the organization. While most leadershi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kevin Stirtz |
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| Article Title :: Is Your Business Healthy? |
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Most business owners I work with want to grow their businesses.
I guess this probably applies to most businesses in general. But
growth for the sake of growth alone is not always healthy for a
business or its people.
I’ve always believed a business should strive to be healthy
rather than focus just on growth. Of course, this begs the
question, “What make a business healthy?” This question comes up
often for me so, I have crafted what I call my Healthy Business
Manifesto.
(Before I dive in, I should clarify one point. When I use the
word "business" I mean any organization that has people, money
and a purpose, not just a for-profit business in the traditional
sense. A business can be (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kevin Stirtz |
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| Article Title :: What is Leadership? |
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Leadership is what every organization needs and so few have in
adequate supply. Part of leadership is what the first President
Bush called “the vision thing”. It’s the ability to see what
does not exist and then gather, mold and shape the resources
needed to make it happen.
Part of leadership is passion for the purpose and the mission of
the organization. But it needs to be passion with direction and
focus. It needs to have strength of character; courage,
integrity and fairness or it cannot sustain itself.
Leadership needs to have drive and initiative. It needs to have
faith that what you are doing is the right thing. It needs to
inspire that same faith in others because leadership (read full article) |
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