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Episode 22: Denise Reed Lamoreaux

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews Global Chief Diversity Officer Denise Reed Lamoreaux in Episode 22 of this series. Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years.  Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.

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Transforming Training in a Pandemic World

While normal business has been interrupted due to precautions taken to address the global pandemic, the need to continue to drive improvement and provide development opportunities for our employees continues.

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Episode 21: Rendela Wenzel

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Rendela Wenzel in Episode 21 of this series. Highly accomplished and motivated Reliability, Maintenance, Process, and Project Professional with years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and Food and Beverage Operations. Her experience includes API Pharmaceutical/ Biotech Manufacturing which includes high-risk Mechanical Integrity processes, Corporate Global Reliability Ownership and Oversight, Engine and component machining, casting, and assembly manufacturing.

10 Minute Talk
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The P’s and E’s of Motivating Workers: Which Are More Effective?

Michelle Henley goes into detail about direct motivating factors (the P’s) and indirect motivating factors (the E’s) and what they mean for workers facing a need for culture change…

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Episode 20: George Galvin

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader George Galvin in Episode 20 of this series. George is a chemical engineer that spent the first half of his career the commodity chemical manufacturing and technology environments. Development is his core value, and he builds teams that learn, improve, and deliver.

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Aligning an Organization

Today, Ron and Doug discuss what it means to align an organization and why it is important to have alignment with employees and company goals.

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Episode 19: Michelle Henley

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Michelle Henley in Episode 19 of this series. Michelle Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 20 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation.  Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site's reliability improvement efforts.

10 Minute Talk
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What Really Motivates Workers to Change

It’s easy to get people to admit that things should change, but getting them to commit to changing themselves is challenging. This is where motivation comes in, defined as “factors that activate, direct, and sustain goal-directed behavior…"

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Episode 18: Rob Kalwarowsky

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Robert Kalwarowsky in Episode 18 of this series. Robert started Rob’s Reliability Project (now Maintenance Disrupted) in 2018 and currently produces leadership & mental health content for the industrial community. Rob has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil and gas, and consulting industries.

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