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Tips for Getting More from Your Team During Meetings

Senior people need to strike a balance between providing enough structure to ensure there is control and stability of day-to-day activities, while giving their team members room to make improvement suggestions, grow and expand their capabilities. One place where a leader can send a strong message of regarding this balance is during meetings with their team..

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How Do You Trigger Change in Your Plant

Implementing a CMMS involves making changes. How can we convince people to buy into these changes…

Interviews
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Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty

With the COVID-19, we're facing a lot of uncertainty and changes in our daily routine. How can we stay safe from a mindset perspective and grow during this time instead of shrinking in fear? How do we deal with the unrest in the stock market, uncertainty around our jobs/companies, uncertainty around when our lives will return to normal?

Learning Paths
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Assembling Your Production System Project Team

In our series on selecting the right team for your next project we will walk through each role, why it’s critical to the process and which of your team members show the right traits to be the ideal fit. Whether you're anticipating a smaller project or a massive overhaul, you'll need to put your team in place before any major decisions are made.

Interviews
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Leaders Need a Personal Mission, Vision and Values

In this interview, Tom Moriarty discusses the definition of a leader as "A leader, provided with direction and requirements, applying leadership roles, attributes and skills, through personal and position power, to influence others towards achieving goals." He shares the there are two important aspects regarding the person who is a formal leadership position.

Nine Minutes of Knowledge
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Corporate Counter-Dependency: Why This Is a Problem

In psychology there’s a phenomenon known as “counter-dependency”. People with this tendency will refuse help when it is offered and won’t even seek it when confronted with a problem. Organizations that are poorer performers often exhibit this same tendency.,,

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Reliability Training

Any real sense of reliability training returning the greatest possible value must be based upon the needs of the business and the future growth and technology, extending to every individual and department. Reliability training must not be conceived as something to improve the skills of the lowest technician but to improve the skills of every technician.

Five Minute Facts
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What is the Impact of Automation on Skilled Trades

In a few buildings in Manhattan I’ve boarded and have had elevator operators who ask for your floor and perform some manual operations. However, when you step into an average modern passenger elevator you push a button and off you go. In an effort to reduce waiting times and delays, there are systems where you declare your floor and are assigned an elevator.

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Planner Justification

Justifying a planner position can be difficult. George Williams describes some math you can use to convince management that this position is necessary...

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