How Manufacturers Improve

Tiffany Garcia from CBIZ talks with Kirby about cyber security threats you should be aware of, where most of the cyber security risk comes from and what to do if you have a cyber security breach.

Brian Sallee, Co-Founder and VP of Sales at Dozuki, joins Kirby to talk about training trends in manufacturing including training methods, training technology and training strategies as well as his take on the single most practical step you can take to leverage these trends.  

Mike Grengs is on the show to talk about addressing barriers leaders face when guiding their team through change.

Luther Johnson and Bill Kaelin from Modular Management talk with Kirby about how to add product variety without the added complexity, take the first few steps in your implementation journey, and avoid the typical problems you would face as your implement product modularity.

Michael Muilenberg, Operational Technology Manager and Strategic Planner at 3M, talks about the leader's role in asking questions, setting up rewards and recognition, and designing key systems.

In this episode, Ron Mrocek, Director of Operations at nVent, talks about how the systems within managing for daily improvement connect support staff with day to day issues so that teams can prioritize actions that will make the biggest impact.

In this episode, we help you and your team find a great book to read so that you can grow and develop into better leaders and problem solvers together.

I’m your host Kirby Sneen and in this episode, were talking about root cause analysis. Specifically, I’m going to cover two quality tools: 5 Why and Fishbone Diagrams. These will help you and your team get to the root cause of your problem, so you stop firefighting and having to address the same problem again and again.

In this episode, we're talking to Meg Hanaman, Director of Quality and Continuous Improvement at IWCO Direct about mistake proofing including prioritizing what problems to solve, the process they use for strategic mistake proofing, and six examples of mistake proofing to which anyone can relate.

In this episode, we’re talking about Learning to Write Problem Statements with Leadership and Development Coach Jeremy Blake.  We cover the 6 components that every good problem statement includes; how to avoid common mistakes when writing a problem statement; and 5 steps to get to the root cause of any problem.