Leadership Articles

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Wednesday, 19th November 2008

Organizations who have adopted Six Sigma have learned that if they do not design for Six Sigma, they will not achieve it. DFSS is a rigorous approach to designing products and services and their enabling processes to ensure that they meet customer expectations. As the organization evolves in Six Sigma, we will learn more about the importance of DFSS, and [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

How an organization structures the people working on Six Sigma is a function of two things: first, by how the Group decides to focus its deployment (e.g., geographical considerations, degree of design, and engineering focus); second, by how the Group wants to integrate Six Sigma into its organization versus how it intends to ensure Six Sigma resources don\'t get [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Design for Six Sigma employs a set of tools and methodologies in the design of new products or services and their supporting processes. This is to ensure that the outcome remains as simple and cost effective as possible while serving the needs of the customer. Products and services are defined such that they can be produced at a Six Sigma level [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Process mapping is an essential tool in helping us understand the activities and sequence of steps involved in any process. It also helps to identify areas where data collection should take place. It is commonly used at the early stages of project definition or project development to visualize the activities involved in a process. By completing the process map prior [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

A fundamental element of Six Sigma philosophy is that unless we are prepared to invest in the measurement of quality, we cannot improve quality, if we don\'t measure quality, and don\'t follow-up on these measures, then we are sending a signal that we really don\'t value quality. This, in turn, affects day-to-day behaviors and activities of all employees. Generating new measures [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Defect Opportunities can exist at any level of a hierarchy (complex, system, subsystem, component, and element levels). The hierarchy level concept can be applied to every business situation. For example, there are many levels to a policy, service, project, assembly, design, etc. For each of these levels, we count the number of opportunities and defects for each CT. This information [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Training for Six Sigma must flow down from top to bottom. If Six Sigma is to be driven off the strategic issues of the business, then it follows that senior management must gain adequate exposure to Six Sigma philosophy, concepts, and methodology before any action is taken. Based on this training, senior management is then in a position to wisely [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Jacquelyn Donner @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

Most organizations find it useful to have a way to evaluate the capacity of products, services, and processes. This step provides them with an idea of where they are on the Six Sigma map, where to focus improvement projects, as well as point out areas where data is available or needs to be collected in the future. It is important [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Laurie Taylor @ Monday, 17th November 2008

A successful leader is engaged in their business and they stay engaged by practicing the art of intentional inquiry. Learning how to ask the right questions that require your team to think instead of simply responding, is an art that requires experience and practice. It\'s also the basis for good coaching. Most leaders don\'t know how to ask questions [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Forest Marie @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008

When pursuing an online career, there are several programs and companies for you to look into. While it can be difficult to decipher one opportunity from the other, it is important you look for the qualities of a good leader. You will be amazed at how much of an impact the leader can have on your online success. One of the [more...]

Business » Leadership | By maureen collins @ Wednesday, 22nd October 2008

Many managers do indeed talk straight. They identify problems, decide on solutions, allocate responsibilities, and communicate it all to their people with standards and deadlines. For many reasons however, things often do not turn out as planned. When that happens, managers react by talking even straighter, and often louder, with more instructions, clearer priorities, and more deadlines. But still the [more...]

Business » Leadership | By maureen collins @ Monday, 20th October 2008

It is not unusual for a new manager to find that his or her predecessor has, maybe for years, tolerated performance from a team of a lower standard than they are willing to accept. Not only has the newcomer to deal with the normal problems of gaining acceptance from the team, he or she has to step up to some [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Wayne Messick @ Monday, 20th October 2008

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage you\'ll ever have that will endure against all others. Are you then an effective, 21st Century leader? What would your people say about your leadership? Would they say that your leadership is the one key element that insures their long term success? And how much of your energy is being spent helping your [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Ron Subs @ Saturday, 18th October 2008

Every time you walk into a bookstore it seems as though the self help section grows exponentially. There is a reason for that. Self help and leadership books are fantastic resources to help people learn how to cope on a variety of levels with a large variety of different situations throughout the course of their life. As a business leader [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Ron Subs @ Friday, 17th October 2008

Podcasts are the latest trend in educational literature these days, with webcasts not far behind. Now, people are using webcasts to do everything from market their own products to educate on a huge variety of topics. CEO webcasts are one of the most advanced educational opportunities of the technology age, and they are an opportunity you as a leader in [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Forest Marie @ Wednesday, 8th October 2008

Every business and program has a leader to guide those starting out in the business. Some people have what it takes to lead others to success while others simply do not have the qualities needed. Here are six qualities of a leader who knows how to run a successful business. 1. Consistency One of the most important qualities of a [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Dominic Donaldson @ Friday, 12th September 2008

Whether you are the captain of an amateur Sunday league football team or the CEO of a multinational corporation effective leadership and success some hand in hand. Leadership is something that can be developed to a certain extent however many successful leaders will voluntarily tell you that you are born with certain skills. Many leadership training professionals will disagree with [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Hani Masgidi @ Wednesday, 10th September 2008

Some concepts, when efficiently executed, can change any organization in a successful team. Every step must be supported and verified by company leaders, these keys must also become essential factors in purpose of raises, bonus, as well as promotions. In call centers, we get what we return. If we desire to establish effectual teamwork, we are willing to distinguish and [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Bart Icles @ Monday, 8th September 2008

Leadership training retreats are a great way to get the leaders of an organization to increase their skills and become better leaders. There are a few steps that need to be taken at any leadership training event. They will help the event be a success and help your leaders grow and develop. 1. The event must be fun for [more...]

Business » Leadership | By Merudh Patel @ Sunday, 31st August 2008

When you\'re building a business through cash gifting it\'s vitally important that you work with the best cash gifting mentor on the market. A mentor\'s job is to help you build and develop your business, and it is vitally important that before they help you develop your marketing system and business model they have a thriving one of their own! The [more...]