2025
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Plus 1
Suggestions for improvement, no matter where they come from, should be seen in the spirit of Plus 1.
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Attitude
Your attitude is powerful in the way that it controls you and affects you, as well as how it impacts those who live and work around you.
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Following Up
Following up, in my opinion, is the most important aspect of management – whether it is to your boss or to your team.
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What’s an OPIP Again?
It takes a plan to burn down hours and decrease the production cycle or achieve any of our other goals in the company. Enter the OPIP!
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What’s in Your Future?
Although a company will provide opportunities for your career, it is up to you to take advantage of them.
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But, I Have a Reason…
Not meeting our commitments – both large and small, department-wide or individual – has a powerful, negative effect on our company.
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Resistance To Change Is Real!
For many, the concept of change triggers a range of powerful emotions – positive and negative. But does it really need to?
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I Thought You Might Need That…
Being able to predict what your boss/team needs before it’s needed helps create efficiency.
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Hard Conversations
The hard conversations can be less painful (less painful although not necessarily easy) if you follow a few simple steps. Let’s talk about them.
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You Should Talk Before…
One of the most important relationships in which you need to have calibrating conversations is between you and your boss.
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Public Speaking
Learning how to speak effectively to groups of people is one of the important ways we grow as leaders.
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Being an Ops Guy
Operations shouldn’t be a scary place to work; it does require work, but the effort you put in will pay off!
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Where Work Happens…
Your decision to do the job right the first time at the point of execution – no matter what your job is – impacts our company in a compounding way.
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Work-Life Balance
Your employment – your career – is yours to manage, and what you want to get out of it is up to you to decide.
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SmartSheets, Schedules and Priorities
If you have planned well and are meeting your deadlines, you will complete projects and your team and the company will benefit.
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OPIP. Another Acronym?
What is an OPIP? As the name would imply, it’s a plan that you build to make your business, department or process run more efficiently and for less cost.
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What Is a Countermeasure?
When I am talking about a countermeasure, I mean an immediate action taken to stop something from reoccurring.