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.
May 2013 News!! Back to top
In May, I will be facilitating 2 day and 5 day public and onsite TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Courses. There is still room for you in the public TapRooT® two day, three day, or five day courses I will be facilitating over the next several months (see below).
Also in May, I will be attending Malcolm Baldrige Examiner Training for the 14th year in Gaithersburg, MD.
Upcoming Great Systems Webinars Back to top
The following webinars - some free and some low cost - will be offered over the next few months. Follow me on Twitter (see below) to learn about future webinar dates and times as they are scheduled.
Pursuing Process Excellence - What's Holding You Back? - 50 minutes |
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May 9th - Noon EDT |
How Effective is Your Root Cause AnalysisProcess? - 50 minutes
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Can You Relate to These Six Sigma Challenges? Back to top
"Are Your Six Sigma Leaders Really Trained to Lead?" - Outlines the five main factors that make most six sigma training efforts much less than adequate.
"Why Does Six Sigma Training Fail?" - Some of the key reasons why typical six sigma training approaches don't work and what can be done to fix these systemic problems.
"Are Your Six Sigma Teams Struggling?" - Most six sigma training courses fail to devote enough (if any) practice-based time to concepts and skills related managing group dynamics, and in turn, team effectiveness suffers.
"Too Many Six Sigma Tools, Too Little Time, - Most six sigma course curriculums introduce too many tools, with little time being devoted to actually learning how to use those tools.
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