Soft Skills Archive

12 Tips for a More Motivated Team and Better Results

Follow these tips to incorporate motivation at all phases of an improvement project in order to ensure passionate teams and management buy-in, along with better business results.

Building Cultural Acceptance Key to Lean Transformation

Why does Lean work in some organizations and not in others? In short, the difference between success and failure is in cultural acceptance and the ability of an organization to accept change, not just Lean change, but change in general.

Change Anything in Your Business or Personal Life [VIDEO] – With Ron McMillan

Ron McMillan is one of the authors of the book “Change Anything,” which introduces a framework to help you achieve any of your business or personal goals by: becoming a scientist, studying yourself, identifying crucial moments where you fail, creating vital behaviors, and engaging in six sources of influence.

Dispute Resolution: Facilitators, Mediators, Arbitrators

Dispute resolution has become a popular way to identify the root cause of a problem and to build a solution strategy – both in and out of the business world. The three resolution processes are facilitation, mediation and arbitration.

Facilitation: A Critical Soft Skill For Success

The soft skills of facilitating a group are one of the most important skills that need to be mastered for the successful achievement of tangible results. Most examples are merely platitudes; this article provides a real-world case study and examples.

How a Company Can Involve Its Suppliers in Six Sigma

As companies concentrate on design and outsource more of the order fulfillment process, including manufacturing, their quality image is dependent on supplier performance. So, when is the time to involve suppliers in a quality improvement initiative?

Make It a Team Effort: Involving Employees Can Lead to Lasting Solutions

A transactional process improvement case study offers guidance for engaging stakeholders in each stage of a project.

Using Six Sigma to Solve Issues in Public School System

Of all the innovative applications for Six Sigma, none may be as interesting as one being used in Colorado – applying Six Sigma to all aspects of a public school system. And "all aspects" includes the heart of any school district – the classroom.

What’s Inside the November/December Issue

The latest issue of iSixSigma Magazine explores the Six Sigma deployment in Ford Motor Co.’s powertrain division, the world of metrics and more.

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