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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.

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In December, I will be facilitating a TapRooT® 5 day onsite root cause analysis workshop in Grand Junction, CO and conducting one of my own "Process Excellence From the Inside Out" workshops in Dallas, TX. I will also be working on making a variety of improvements to this website, making additional workbooks available for sale on Amazon.com, and working on new product development.

At the Industrial Engineering Solutions conference in May, I introduced my new process excellence certificate-based product line. True process excellence cannot be realized unless every process owner adopts a continuous improvement mindset and learns to use process improvement tools on a daily basis. These three certificates (process owner, team leader, and organizational leader) take six months to obtain, require workshop participation, and more importantly, demonstrated and consistent improvement tool skill demonstration. Virtual coaching is offered during the six month process as part of the certificate fee. If you are interested in learning more about these certificates, please send me an e-mail. I am confident that your training and coaching costs will be recovered by the time the certificate process is complete!

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Join Kevin for his 1 day "Process Excellence From the Inside Out " workshop in Miami, FL

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Are you wasting too much time in meetings? Do your team leaders need to improve their team facilitation skills? Great Systems can help!

There is still room for you to attend one of the many public TapRooT® workshops that are held each month. In my opinion, TapRooT® offers the best approach for getting to, and addressing, the root causes of any type of human performance problem or equipment difficulty. Visit the TapRooT® website to learn more about the TapRooT® process itself and to see when a TapRooT® two day or five day public course might be coming to your area. You can check out the course outlines and learn more about registering for these workshops on the TapRooT® website. I would really like to see you there!

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Dec 08
TapRooT® 5 day public root cause analysis workshop - Grand Junction, CO, December 8-12
Feb 09
TapRooT® 5 day public root cause analysis workshop - Vancouver, BC, February 2-6
May 09
"Process Excellence From the Inside Out " one day workshop, May 2009, Annual IIE Solutions Conference, Miami, FL DETAILS COMING SOON!
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Downloadable 15 minute podcast by Kevin on "Process Excellence"
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