Welcome to Great Systems!! There are over 150 pages on this site, which means that you can find a lot of free things here to help you improve the effectiveness of your organization, your teams, and even yourself. If you are tired of chasing fads, if you are struggling to sustain performance improvement initiatives such as lean six sigma, or if you are struggling to improve leadership effectiveness or create a high performance work culture in your company, I think you will see value in the different workshops, workbooks, and books that I feature on this site. Keep in mind that I update this site monthly as well, so you might want to bookmark it.

The bottom line is this - process and operational excellence should not be complicated. I have spent my entire work career looking for the best systems that can be used to help you achieve your employee engagement, incident elimination, customer satisfaction, waste reduction, cost savings, and other operational excellence goals, and I believe that I have found some great ones. If you have questions, give me a call or shoot me an e-mail - my contact information can be found at the bottom of this page. Give me the chance to share these great systems with you.

August 2010 News!! Back to top

In August, I will be facilitating 2 day onsite TapRooT® root cause analysis workshop in McMinnville, OR and Richmond, VA. I will also be facilitating three of my own one day Process Excellence Leadership Camps in Texas, South Carolina, and California.

Over the past several months, I have been writing a series of articles for the Six Sigma and Process Excellence division of IQPC. The initial article was entitled "Are Your Six Sigma Leaders Really Trained to Lead?", and outlines the five main factors that make most six sigma training efforts much less than adequate.

The second article is entitled "Why Does Six Sigma Training Fail?" and addresses some of the key reasons why typical six sigma training approaches don't work and what can be done to fix these systemic problems.

Article Three addresses the fact that most six sigma training courses fail to devote enough (if any) practice-based time to concepts and skills related managing group dynamics. It is titled "Are Group Dynamics Problems Compromising the Effectiveness of Your Six Sigma Projects?"

My fourth article, which is entitled "Too Many Six Sigma Tools, Too Little Time", was posted at the end of August. It speaks to the fact that most six sigma course curriculums introduce too many tools, with little time being devoted to actually learning how to use those tools. As with my other articles however, I do offer ways to fix these problems.

Follow these links to explore these articles in more detail. Additional articles will be posted on that website over the next few months.

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