Today's Lean Leader: A Practical Guide to Applying Lean Six Sigma and Emerging Technologies to Leadership and Supervision
- 3h 39m
- Mark Coats, Rob Ptacek, Todd Ptacek
- MCS Media, Inc.
- 2012
Today's Lean Leader is designed for use as a quick and convenient reference, or as a training guide to improve your effectiveness in leading, supervising, and coaching employees. It provides valuable insight into the How To's of leadership and supervision. Today's Lean Leader can be used in a variety of ways, some of which are: (1)The guide is valuable for the new or veteran leader - supervisor (2) Remarkably, the guide in the hands of the workforce makes the task of leading and supervising all the easier when everyone is on the same page on these basic principles.
About the Authors
Rob Ptacek is a Partner in the Global Lean Institute and President and CEO of Competitive Edge Training and Consulting, a firm specializing in leader and organizational development, and Lean Enterprise transformations. He is an Approved Scanlon Leadership Network Consultant. Rob holds a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI (USA), and a Masters of Management from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI (USA). Rob has held leadership positions in Quality, Sales, and Operations Management, and has over 25 years of practical experience implementing continuous improvements in a variety of industries. He speaks on leadership and continuous improvement topics for several industry associations including the Precision Metal Forming Association (PMA), Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME), American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the Scanlon Leadership Network (SLN).
Mark Coats, Colonel (Retired) US Army is the Chief Operating Officer for Tepa, LLC a General Contractor headquartered out of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colonel Coats holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia. During a 22-year career in the United States Army, Mark had the opportunity to serve in nearly every possible staff position and commanded at the platoon-, company-, and battalion-level. Mark had the honor of serving a total of 22 months in combat with his combat service culminating as a battalion commander of a combat engineer battalion in Baghdad.
Todd Ptacek is a Lead Systems Engineer and Program Manager at a leading global company focused on technology. In his current role, he leads design and implementation of several government mandated compliance projects and facilitates product software development and release. Todd graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana with a Bachelor s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and is currently finishing his Masters through Georgia Institute of Technology. Todd completed a two-year engineering and leadership program, gaining significant experience in business, engineering, lean processes and improvement, and leadership. He has rotated through several divisions of his current company, holding design, product development, and test engineering positions.
In this Book
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Communications
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Conflict Management
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Decision Making
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Discipline
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Innovation and Creativity
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Interviewing and Hiring
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Layered Process Audits
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Leadership and Coaching
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Managing Change
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Meeting Leading
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Motivation
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Performance Management and Goal Setting
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Performance Reviews
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Policy Deployment
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Problem Solving
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Process Improvement
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Project Management
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Remote Supervising
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Reward and Recognition
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Stakeholder Analysis
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Standard Work for Leaders
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Stress Management
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Team Selection and Building
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Terminations
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Time Management
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Trust Building
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Valuing Diversity
