The Trouble with Lecturing New Supervisors
Part 2 of 4 in the series Training new supervisors with Logic Puzzles for Managers, Volume 1 The trouble with lecturing new supervisors I've stood at the front of a lot of training rooms, and a room full of new supervisors is one of the hardest audiences there is. Some of them were promoted last Friday and some have been supervising for ten years without help. The senior supervisors, understandably, don’t agree they need to be there. Several of them now supervise people who w
The Training Gap Nobody Budgets for
Part 1 of 4 in the series Training new supervisors with Logic Puzzles for Managers, Volume 1 The training gap nobody budgets for The average supervisor in Jack Zenger's database of roughly 17,000 leaders took the job at age 30 and didn't receive any formal leadership training until age 42.1 That's about a dozen years of making decisions about people, schedules, priorities and pay with whatever the person absorbed by watching his or her own bosses. I've worked with supervisors
The Human Side of Maintenance
We’ve had the good fortune to work with various functional groups, including operations (from job shops to high-speed lines), purchasing,...
Employee Engagement – Short-interval Controls, an Untapped Solution
Recent surveys found that 70 to 80% of business leaders rate employee engagement as an urgent or important priority. Employee engagement...
Equipping Line Management to Lead Change
A previous blog talks about project change management activity that addresses the emotional reason that help an employee population...
Removing Maintenance Productivity Barriers - Time as a Management Tool
Foreword: This is the first in a series of blogs posts describing an ongoing process of problem solving. This edition speaks to the...
The Politics of Change
People process change on three levels: rational, emotional, and political. These all have a direct effect on the Desire building block of...
Currently Trending: Business Transformation
A client recently asked what is Business Transformation. There are various explanations offered in literature and on the Internet....
Maintenance Planner Scheduler Training - Life Outside the Computer
The bulk of maintenance Planner Scheduler training typically focuses on using the maintenance management software, data entry and...
Going for the Gold
Last week I was in a consultant "shop-talk" session comparing notes on how to identify and track financial benefits that show in a...
