I recently conducted a two-day training class for business managers in the six-sigma methodology at a major university in which one of the participants stated that the least beneficial part of the course was having to create a project centered around an issue from their individual workplace. One of the participants responded that the project […]
TLS Continuum Part 87: Processes Gone Awry
First of all, let me extend my regrets for not keeping better in touch but I and my family have been fighting this bug that is flying around. Not the flu but close to it. It sucks to be under the weather. This past week has been filled with more irony then I would want […]
TLS Continuum Part 86: 5 ways to bring business skills to the classroom
We constantly read in the media and hear our elected officials espousing that our schools are in turmoil. However, if we bring the TLS Continuum and its associated business skills to the school environment we can counter these messages of gloom and doom. So how do we make that happen? Map your processes Both from […]
TLS Continuum Part 84: Are you in real time or in a bubble?
In Part 84, I posed the question as to whether your organization viewed the global workplace from looking in the mirror or looking out the window. I suggested that the view from the mirror is what you think you do and the view from the window is what your clients tell you what you do […]
TLS Continuum Part 84:The organizational view of the world via a mirror or a window?
The other day I was listening to an installment of the Voice of Experience from the National Speakers Association in which the presenter talked about the different view one gets from the mirror versus the window. There is a direct applicability to the TLS Continuum. In order to achieve sustainable process improvement, you must begin […]
TLS Continuum Part 83: The HR Missing Link;Have you found it as yet?
In Part 82 of this series, I posed the question whether or not human capital management was dead or not. In this part I want to suggest that there is a vital path to your survival both as an HR professional and as part of your organization. The C-Suite office holders of the 21st century […]
TLS Continuum Part 82: Is Human Capital Management dead?
As I listen to the Internet scuttlebutt I have cause to stop and consider whether the HR profession, as we know it , is thriving or either dying or has already died. I have a fellow consultant who told me that the reason why I am not getting the interest in some of my programs […]
TLS Continuum Tip of the Week
When beginning a continuous process improvement effort begin with asking what is it you do?
TLS Continuum Tip of the Week
The Greatest Ability is Dependability
Do you diagnose What Goes Right?
Paul Michelman, Editor in Chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review discusses 6 steps to diagnose what you as an organization do right in the Spring 2017 issue. The full article appears at http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/do-you-diagnose-what-goes-right/