Equipping Your Team: 5 Steps to Leadership-Driven Employee Engagement

By Todd Hanlin | July 10, 2020

SOLUTION AREA: Leadership and Change Management

Whether we want to admit it or not, people are an organization’s most significant asset. The current world environment has made it even more difficult to retain talent, so finding ways to enhance job satisfaction and employee loyalty through employee engagement is critical.

Leadership in Crisis: Lessons from a Childhood Survivor

By Ed Hoffman | July 22, 2020

SOLUTION AREA: Leadership & Change Management

Now is a difficult time for almost all businesses. Some are shuttered and experiencing the worst economic trauma imaginable. For others, the demand for their products might be soaring, but the health and well-being of their employees seems almost impossible to ensure. Each of these situations have employees, managers, and executives in places that they could not have imagined just a few months ago.

The most dangerous phrase in today’s manufacturing—“We Leaned it out.”

By Ed Hoffman | June 19, 2020

SOLUTION AREA:Operational Excellence

As many of us already know, Lean is a term that depicts broad concepts within world class operations developed by Toyota following WWII. Over the past two decades, I’ve often heard leaders from different industries describe their successes by stating something along the lines of: We’ve Leaned out our factories. It’s a phrase that seems benign, yet it’s one of the most dangerous phrases a leader can use. Why? What’s wrong with this phrase?

Finding the ‘Right’ Transformational Leader

By Rob Krall | May 25, 2020

SOLUTION AREA: Change Management and Leadership

Organizational success during significant change is dependent on several factors. Assigning the ‘right’ leader to drive that change is one of the most critical factors. Transformational leaders must have the ideal mix of competencies in leadership and business.

Read on to find out the key components that can help ensure successful change.