Leadership
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.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
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…"
- Michelle Henley
- TMG Frontline Solutions
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
How to Maintain an Efficient Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond
Workforce efficiency is key to success in a market facing labor shortages and skills gap issues. Factor in a global pandemic, and most companies have had to reimagine how they meet staffing requirements, asking questions like: What are the current recruiting and staffing challenges? Should we partner with an outside firm to help support recruiting needs? How is COVID-19 impacting the way business is done?
- Caroline Campbell Burgreen
- Allied Reliability
Episode 17: Will Bower
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, Interview's reliability leader Will Bower in Episode 17 of this series. Will is the Director of Services with Maintain CM based in the United Kingdom. Will strives to help engineering mangers achieve reliability excellence through every channel that he can.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Managing the Business Effect of An Aging Workforce
Recently I sat on panel to discuss the aging of the workforce. The panel was made up of representatives of several manufacturing companies, and they outlined their company’s current situation regarding the coming retirement of so-called baby boomers, the first of whom are now into their sixties. I happen to be one of them.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Based on comments from my last post, I picked a "Joe's Dope Sheet" that focuses on management. I hope you enjoy!
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Episode 16: Scott Brown
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT