We've spoken about corporate culture.  How do you establish it?  How do you maintain it?

Outlined here are a few of the ways to establish a positive culture of respect within your organization

Key Words: Corporate Culture; Production Line; Judy Umlas; International Institute for Learning; IIL; Process Improvement; Production Line; Business; 

What is the biggest influencer over employee satisfaction?  The culture of the employee's work group.  Who sets the tone for the group?  Come listen and find out.

The culture of a work group is very much like the culture of a team.  We look at some of the high performing NHL teams of the last 30 years. And use them as a metaphor for managing a business or organization.

Key Words: Detroit Red Wings; Edmonton Oilers; Toronto Maple Leafs; Business; Process Improvement; Corporate Culture; Production Line

Do you and your team use the Gap Analysis tool?  If not, why not?  It is one of the simplest tools to use when you are deciding whether to improve a process or not.

Come listen in and hear how simple the process is.

Key Words: Gap Analysis, Process Improvement, Production Line, Business, Entrepreneur

Whether you are a parent or a manager of a business, motivating employees is a challenge.

If you knew more about the person, what makes them tick, then you could find it easier to motivate them.

Listen to this podcast to get some practical tools for learning to motivate an individual, maybe even yourself.

Key Words: Myers-Briggs; Holland Code; Personality Types; Business; Process Improvement; Production Line; Business; Entrepreneur

Trust - Is this important to a project?  Is this important to a business?

Let's talk about trust and its impacts on teams as well between teams or organiztions

Key Words: Project Management; Trust; Business; Process Improvement; Production Line; Systems

What could the current state of the Detroit Red Wings have to do with business?

How can you get people to work together and get to a decision? Especially when you don't have the authority to get them to do anything.

Listen in and see how managing hockey is similar to managing a business.

Key Words: Detroit, Red Wings; Business; Process Improvement; Production Line; 

How many times to you get a task that seems impossible.  Can we learn about this from the 2017 Super Bowl?

Come listen in as we look a the Super Bowl and then some challenges that took place in my job over the last week.

Key Words: Production Line; Process Improvement; Business; Systems; Super Bowl 51; 

We round out the discussion of Employee Retention with The Power of Acknowledgment.  Judy Umlas gives us a view into the world of the Power of Acknowledgment and Grateful Leadership.

Key Words: Power of Acknowledgment; Judy Umlas; Production Line; Business; Process Improvement; 

Is employee retention important to your company?  How can you influence employee retention through recognition and Employee engagement.

We revisit information from the Center for Grateful Leadership regarding the Power of Acknowledgment and its affect on Employee engagement, Employee Recognition and Employee retention.

Key Words: Production Line, business processes, process improvement, entrepreneur, Center for Grateful Leadership

Every business owner has the challenge of replacing themselves in the business.  But where do you begin?  In this episode we continue the discussion of a business owner replacing them selves and use the two characteristics of tasks, value and effort, to prioritize where to begin.

Key Words: Production Line, Business Process Improvement, Management, Entrepreneur