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Talk at Your Employees, Not With Them

This killing tendency is all too common. When you talk at someone, you’re talking down to her. You’re being condescending. Often this kind of approach is accompanied by pointing a finger or pen, and the frequent use of words like “I want” and “you should.” It can’t even be called “giving orders” — it is attacking people with rank and the threat of retribution. The result? Over time, team members will either leave or, perhaps worse, gradually become what your tyrannical style is teaching them to be: responsive only to direct orders … not self-starters … distrustful of management … uncommitted to your vision … unmotivated to operate beyond performance minimums. This absolutely destroys any connection or rapport with the person you are trying to reach.

Manager should talk with team members. One of the best ways to do this is to start using the words “we,” “our” and “us.” “We’ve got our work cut out for us in order to make the deadline we committed to.” “Well, we blew it on that order. Let’s figure out what we learned and do our best not to repeat the error.”

The Developing Person Through the Life Span

BENEFITS OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

Experimental Designs (ED) enables industrial engineers to study the effects of several variables affecting the response or output of a certain process. Experimental Designs (ED) methods have wide potential application in the engineering design and development stages. It is the strategy of the management in today's competitive world market to develop products and processes insensitive to various sources of variation using ED. The potential applications of Experimental Designs (ED) in industries are:

• reducing product and process design and development time;
• studying the behaviour of a process over a wide range of operating conditions; minimising the effect of variations in manufacturing conditions;
• understanding the process under study and thereby improving its performance;
• increasing process productivity by reducing scrap, rework etc.;
• improving the process yield and stability of an on-going manufacturing process;
• making products insensitive to environmental variations such as relative humidity, vibration, shock and so on;
• studying the relationship between a set of independent process variables (i.e., process parameters) and the output (i.e., response).

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (ED)

Experimental Designs (ED) is a strategy of planning, conducting, analysing and interpreting experiments so that sound and valid conclusions can be drawn efficiently, effectively and economically. It provides the experimenters a greater understanding and power over the experimental process. ED has seen an increased application over fifteen years, as both manufacturing and service industries have attempted to refine and improve product, process and service quality.

Experimental design (ED) is a powerful technique for understanding a process, studying the impact of potential variables or factors affecting the process and thereby providing spontaneous insight for continuous quality improvement possibilities. ED has proved to be very effective for improving the process yield, process capability, process performance and reducing process variability. However research has shown that the application of this powerful technique by the engineering fraternity in manufacturing companies is limited due to lack of skills and expertise in manufacturing, lack of statistical knowledge required by industrial engineers and so on. Some of the recent research findings on the problems and gaps in the state-of-the-art in ED. In order to bridge the gap in the statistical knowledge required by engineers, the article presents a paper helicopter experiment which can be easily carried out in a class-room to teach experimental design techniques. The results of the experiment have provided a greater stimulus for the wider application of ED by industrial engineers in real-life situations for tackling quality problems.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People / The 8th Habit

For individuals and organizations, effectiveness is no longer merely an option. Your survival requires it. But to thrive, excel and lead in the Knowledge Worker Age, we must move beyond effectiveness to greatness, which includes fulfillment, passionate execution and significant contribution. Accessing a higher level of human genius and motivation requires a sea change in thinking. A new mind-set and skill set, in short, an additional habit to those featured in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The crucial challenge is to find our own voice and inspire others to find theirs. This is the 8th Habit.

The 8th Habit shows you how to tap the limitless value creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age. It shows you how to solve the major contradictions inherent in organizational life. Most of which are a carryover from the Industrial Age. It will transform the way you think about yourself, your purpose in life, your organization and other people. It explains how to move from effectiveness to greatness.

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The 8th Habit Personal Workbook: Strategies to Take You from Effectiveness to Greatness

Leadership & Innovation

The Millionaire Mindset

Gerry Robert’s book The Millionaire Mindset is one of the classics in motivation and achieving one’s goals. It is on the same level as other classics such as Think and Grow Rich; Rich Dad, Poor Dad; 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and The Richest Man in Babylon. Gerry’s book causes one to search deep within and make the paradigm shift necessary to achieve quantum leaps in success.

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