Management
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Another Important Lesson in Self-Awareness from the Center For Creative Leadership
- July 17, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
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Last week, I talked about my time at the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina. I attended with many military and government leaders who wanted to improve their own leadership skills. I learned a lot of valuable lessons there, including how to communicate, how to manage, and how to lead. One important lesson I
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An Important Lesson in Intelligent Listening Learned from the Center For Creative Leadership
- July 10, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
Several (okay, many) years ago, I had a chance to attend the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. I attended with many military and government leaders who were looking to improve their own leadership skills and better manage their staffs. While I was there, I learned a lot of valuable lessons about how
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What a Tail-less Cheetah Can Teach Us About Partnerships
- June 26, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Innovation, Management
Take a look at this video. It’s of a mother cheetah and her cub that I took while I was on a safari in Natal, South Africa. I used to own a company in South Africa in the 70s, and I like to return to South Africa from time to time to visit old friends.
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The Benefit of Executive Mastermind Groups
- June 19, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management
As an executive, it’s often hard to find someone you can share your experiences and your fears with. The only people who truly understand what you’re going through are your fellow executives, usually at other companies and even in other cities and states. Discussing these kinds of thoughts, fears, and ideas are where executive mastermind
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Impostor Syndrome vs Dunning-Kruger Effect
- June 12, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
Last week, I wrote about the Impostor Syndrome (How Do Executives Deal With Impostor Syndrome?) and the effect it has on people. I said Impostor Syndrome is. . . . . . the fear that you’re not good enough for the job you’re supposed to do, and that you’re going to be discovered and outed
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Managers Should Train With Employees
- May 8, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Business, Management
A few months ago, I talked about the importance of manufacturers providing training for their employees, especially if they were adopting new technology and processes. You could send your people off to a training school or your vendor partner to learn the new technology. Another option is to pay some of your vendor partners to
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Creating a Caring Company Culture Where You Can Have Retention
- April 17, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
When I think of company culture, I think of a company’s office environment, the attitudes of the people, and the general emotional atmosphere around the building. It’s the feeling of camaraderie and the drive to get things done. It’s the relationships and whether people get along. A company culture can tell you a lot about
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Developing People Within the Organization to Handle Higher-Qualified Work
- April 10, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Leadership, Management
When you’re trying to recruit highly-skilled employees for a highly-skilled job, you have to look everywhere you can. However, those candidates are not always available for you to just pick one out of a pile of résumés, ready to start work at a moment’s notice. In a lot of cases, you can focus on developing
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Don’t Poach, Approach: Recruit Talent from Your Vendor Partners
- April 3, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management
As the American manufacturing industry faces a continued shortage of skilled workers, I remember how we used to find recruit talent for Robroy and its different divisions and subsidiaries: We would recruit employees from our vendor partners and suppliers. By recruiting the talent from our partners, the ones who supplied us with the services or
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Making a Case for Technology Skill Schools
- March 13, 2019
- Posted by: David Marshall
- Category: Management, Manufacturing
In Indiana, there’s a rather unusual vocational school called Driver Solutions, a truck driving school where students learn how to properly drive a tractor-trailer rig in three weeks. Students who qualify, and can pass the different drug and health tests, will not only get a job immediately after they graduate, their schooling is paid for.