Emotional Intelligence Tools

Dr. Reldan, “Relly,” Nadler is a leading psychologist and Executive Coach focusing on developing and providing cutting edge Emotional Intelligence tools and strategies for CEO’s, Executives, leaders, managers and their organizations and teams.  His newest book, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, gives hands-on solutions to become these problems and more. After working with over 15,000 leaders over Read More …

Creating the Customer Relationship with Lean

This is a transcription of the podcast, Lean is the tool that Creates the Customer Relationship. The guest was Erik Haberkern, a General Sales Manager of a global Fortune 300 chemical company. We discussed the application of Lean in Sales and Marketing.  Eric first worked as a Facility Manager and soon became a Lean Deployment Read More …

The People Side of TWI

Oscar Roche believes the long term success of any business lies in the development of people capability. It is this belief, combined with extensive operations management experience, that permits him to add value to any organization he works with. Oscar is is the Director of Training Within Industry Institute in Australia.  Oscar believes passionately that Read More …

Why and How of the 7 Kata

The book, The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training, was published in 2012 and authored by Pat Boutier and Conrad Soltero. It received the Shingo Award for Research and Professional Publications from the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence. It discusses the blend of Training within Industry (TWI) with Kata in a very unique way. Download Read More …

Thinking of Lean as Your Business Model

Art Byrne has been implementing Lean strategy in various U.S.-based manufacturing and service companies, such as Danaher Corporation, for more than 30 years, including The Wiremold Company, which he ran for 11 years. He now serves as Operating Partner at the private equity firm J. W. Childs Associates L.P. In a podcast (Lean as a Read More …

Lean Stories of Improvement

Management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company that he began in August, 1997, to advance Lean thinking around the world. Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. It has not Read More …