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5 Things your Mfg Leaders should be doing every day

Whether you are a seasoned manufacturing leader or this is your first day on the job, you can start doing these 5 things immediately.  Your manufacturing leaders can easily get caught up in firefighting and problem solving all day every day. After an entire week of running from one issue to the next, it can feel like you didn’t make any progress on your long-term goals. Manufacturing leaders are constantly in a state of chaos, Read more

By Jennifer Biggs, ago

The secret to achieving big goals

You probably already have identified a few goals for 2021. How are you going to achieve them? Better yet, how are you going to motivate your team to achieve them? If you are like most business leaders, your goals can’t be accomplished with a stroke of your pen, meaning that you can’t just sign on the dotted line to make your goal a reality. Most goals that make the top 3 list in businesses today Read more

By Jennifer Biggs, ago

The Ultimate Guide to Improving the Productivity of your Leaders

If you are a leader in manufacturing right now, you are drinking from the firehose. Between the unexpected events of employees exposure or diagnosis with COVID, you are also managing material shortages and order changes at an unprecedented level. Your life right now feels especially chaotic, and there is no real antidote for that chaos. Every time my life feels chaotic, I take a look at what I personally can control in order to create Read more

By Jennifer Biggs, ago

Focus on your lowest-performing employees

I have a firm, fundamental belief that people come to work every day to be great. The core inside of every person is that they want to be their best and add value to the team. No one wants to do a bad job at anything. But sometimes, your team members are underperforming their peers. You’re expecting me to say that you should cut the weakest links so that you rise the tide of performance? Read more

By Jennifer Biggs, ago

What’s your team’s score today?

Imagine that you are watching a basketball game with no scoreboard. Which team is winning? Which player has the most points? Which player needs coaching and feedback? You are probably “watching” this game in your head and making inferences from the few plays that you have seen. But you haven’t seen the whole game, who is to say that these two minutes you have been watching are representative of the entire game? What if you Read more

By Jennifer Biggs, ago