Are you responsible? Chris Avery, a leadership consultant, teaches how one can be responsible. According to Avery, responsibility isn’t a character trait. It is a learned mental process operating identically in everyone. You know responsibility when you see it. You can teach it, study it and practice it. If you are willing, you can choose […]

As you can tell by my notes this week, I value a great deal the coaching tips Folkman and Zenger provide to folks who are perceived by their team to be ineffective leaders. The key element to understand is that being the most effective leader you can be starts with the leader believing that there […]

Continuing on the ways Folkman and Zenger saw leaders become more effective: They became “change agents” and they solicited teammates’ ideas to facilitate this change. This strategy fits right in to our company strategy of becoming leaner. Leaders who strive to maintain the status quo can lose respect. They tend to be stuck in their […]

From time to time, we will have someone visit one of our plants who hasn’t previously seen a pallet operation. After making the visit, without exception, they will say, “Until I visited your plant, I never thought much about pallets. Now I see them everywhere I go.” That’s the same kind of experience I hope […]