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7 benefits of having clear and documented roles and responsibilities
Do you have clear and documented roles and responsibilities within your company with job descriptions?
5 benefits to delegating well
You are in control of your growing business. You have lots of projects. Deadlines are
How to mobilize and motivate your employees?
Disengaged employees cost organizations millions of dollars. Unfortunately, most managers don’t know what to do
Are you a good coach for your employees?
What a great question. Employees today are looking for a boss who will be a
Something new is coming to my blog! The point of view of an employee.
In this article and some of the next ones, you will have an employee’s point
What is executive coaching and what is it for?
This summer I saw an interesting story on coaching Olympic athletes. It’s fascinating to see
Defining your organizational chart as well as roles and responsibilities
Most of my clients don’t have a clear organizational chart or defined roles and responsibilities
Adapting your management style to your employees
Imagine a manager working with his team, I’ll call him Jean. He has a strong
The greatest basis in employee management
When I got my first role as a supervisor, I was fortunate enough to have
Is standardizing advantageous?
In a department, several employees have the same position. They work every day to complete
Unit flow production
If your production method is manual, whether partially or totally, producing by unit flow will
8 facts about managers
For this article I wanted to share 8 facts about managers. I coach several business
Transform Your Operations
For my October blog, I’d like to talk to you about transformation. Transformation of what
Strategic Supplier Management
Supplier management is a key component of any business. If you do not have the
Stop putting out fires and do your strategic planning
You are SME managers, so you are used to putting out fires, unfortunately. You are
And after, your transformation?
And after? What are you going to do with your business? Did this period of
8 steps to effectively solve your complex problems
Do you happen to have problems in your organization that you have solved, or so
5 steps to establish clear roles and responsibilities
Unfortunately, it is rare to see SMEs with clear and documented job descriptions with roles
Why the 5 whys
Today, I will talk about a simple and powerful tool, the 5 whys. This method
What is a cause and effect diagram?
The cause and effect diagram, Ishikawa diagram, fishbone diagram or 5M is a tool that
A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
September already! I hope you enjoyed the summer. On my side I had beautiful mandates
The importance of communicating
Do you have communication challenges in your business? Does the information circulate well? Do people
Optimizing a process
I am currently working with two different clients to optimize an order taking process and
Spring cleaning
It will soon be spring! We all want to clean winter’s clutter in the garage,
Understanding the employees’ emotions
Do your employees experience the following emotions; frustration, disengagement, sarcasm, feeling of doing things for
There’s nothing like the facts!
Hello everyone, for my February article I would like to tell you about one of
Report of the week
This week was busy. I did a diagnostic for a distribution company. Their goal is
New training on project management
3 half-days where we will go over every step of a good project management as
My day yesterday
Yesterday I was at a client’s with whom I work to implement a Lean culture,
The story of my summer
Hello everyone! I hope you had a great summer. It was nice and hot! It’s
Do you delegate enough?
I guess your answer is no. Ask yourself what are you delegating, and could you
How to mobilize and motivate your employees?
What a beautiful question, don’t you find? According to Statistics Canada, Quebeckers have the highest
The Basics of Strategic Planning
What is strategic planning? And why do this exercise? Strategic planning is the development of
We have developed a brand new training!
A first management role. 3 half days with your newly promoted managers (or even those
How to overcome maintenance planning challenges?
This article follows my December article titled: Do you have maintenance planning challenges? Click on
Do you have maintenance planning challenges?
I’m guessing that your answer is yes, implying first that you are doing some maintenance.
5 key points for planning a plant redesign
I am currently working on a factory redesign for a client. There are many things
Clarifying your organizational chart
In SMEs, organizational charts are often unclear and not well defined, and that is if
SMEs 0 large companies 2
As a follow-up to my July article, SMEs 0 large companies 1 (add link to
To take your vacation or to get paid?
During this vacation period, I found the question appropriate. Are you someone who takes his
SMEs 0 large companies 1
Why did I choose this tittle for my blog you ask? I’m celebrating my first
How to implement a lockout program
Implementing a lockout tagout program is easy! Yes, that’s true. All that is needed is
Moving from a batch production to a unit flow production, is it really faster?
The answer is yes! The first time I was told that a unit flow production
Are you a good coach for your employees?
Are you a good coach for your employees? That’s good question you will surely answer:
Why improve your processes?
Why improve your processes? That is an excellent question. What is your answer? I regularly