If you’re at #AMEJAX, I’ll be co-presenting with Deirdre Gruendler, senior consultant and director of the CultureSync Academy Friday, November 14, 2014 at 8:00 am. Stop by to say hello and check out our session: Building a Tribe that Excels to learn more about the ways culture impacts performance.
Insight on common attitudes towards change to keep in mind as you aim to introduce new processes, technology, management, personnel, wellness habits, etc. into your organization. The article warns that what makes short-term change appealing can also be its downfall. But for those struggling with getting people to take to change at all, pilot (short term) programs may be enough of a carrot to get the resistant moving.
The key, […]
An organization’s record of safety incidents represents more than a measure of how cautious its employees are in high risk environments or with high risk materials. This metric also directly corresponds to an organization’s values, management philosophy and priorities, employee engagement and culture as well as productivity (cost, quality, delivery) issues.
Isolated incidents aside, the recurrence of unsafe practices is not simply a story of individual or human error specifically. […]
If you’re interested in learning more about why Continuous Improvement doesn’t stick (and getting it to) check out my session at the Lean Systems Summit: Conflict Is The Root Of All Waste
I’ll be speaking on August 8th and would love to meet up if you plan on attending.
Check out the event overview here.
Check out the post event comments and presentation here.
As featured in the June 2014 issue of Effective Flow Magazine:
It’s the elusive goal behind every Continuous Improvement initiative: Every organization wants to become a high performing workplace. But what does this entail? How does one go about achieving it? How long does it take? I’ve spent my career answering these questions.
I have read countless tomes on the subject of business success and how to achieve it, benefited from […]
If budget prevented you from attending our last Fundamentals of Change workshop good news: For qualified organizations, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) will grant up to half the cost of this training through their Express program.The EOLWD believes in FCC’s impact on the leadership and team building skills necessary to drive change and performance. Approved companies could get funding to kick off training in […]
Self awareness is the first step to becoming a better leader. It’s also the first step in mitigating your shortcomings and building better personal and professional relationships. This article synthesizes what the author calls “brain type” by behavior and provides a cheat sheet of each type’s strengths, weaknesses and blindspots. Though none of us follow a singular behavioral pattern, this is an entertaining general refresher on how it is […]
A thoughtful articulation of one of the tenets of Macresco’s philosophy as well as the relationship between communication, culture and performance.
