Change Management

Building a Reliability Culture

Laying The Groundwork for a Successful Change.

14859431605_1fcfc06f74_mIt turns out that you have been deploying the right reliability tools and maintenance practices, but the organization’s culture was preventing or hampering the results.  This is a common scene played out in many organizations, but there is hope.  The culture change will be a long road, as cultures are not changed overnight.

In the previous article we covered the warning signs of a culture that may be impeding your reliability efforts.  If you have determined that your culture is impeding your effort, there are some […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:02-04:00May 9th, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management|Comments Off on Building a Reliability Culture

Red Alert: Your Culture Is Hurting Your Reliability Efforts

The Warning Signs That You Need a Culture Change

17086570218_70271813b1_mImagine working within (or maybe you don’t need to imagine it) an organization in which everything is completely reactive.  You arrive early to try and organize the work for the day, yet only to find out someone else is there doing it.

During the course of the day, there are multiple failures and all are followed with “I told John that was making noise a few days ago.”  You inquire if the operator submitted a work request and you receive the response “That’s maintenance’s job”.

Unfortunately, this a […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:03-04:00May 2nd, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management, People, Roles & Responsibilities|Comments Off on Red Alert: Your Culture Is Hurting Your Reliability Efforts

Be a Leader

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

Leaders - Wesley Fryer Wesley Fryer

Building on the Dale Carnegie® Principles from the famous book, How to Win friends and Influence People, we can progress to the final set of principles.

Using his key principles as a guide, we can bring about change within our organization. In the first post, we covered how to build authentic and meaningful relationships. In the second post we covered how to win people to your way of thinking. In this last post, […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00June 1st, 2015|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off on Be a Leader

Win People to Your Way of Thinking

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

Think - Taymaz Valley Taymaz Valley

Building on the Dale Carnegie® Principles from the famous book, How to Win friends and Influence People, we can progress to the next set of principles.

Using his key principles as a guide, we can bring about change within our organization. In the previous post, we covered how to build authentic and meaningful relationships. If you have not read that post, yet, please go back and do so before reading on.

I was part […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00May 25th, 2015|Change Management, Coaching, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off on Win People to Your Way of Thinking

Become a Friendlier Person

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

Friendly - Tim Green Tim Green

Dale Carnegie founded his training program in 1912. Over 100 years later, the same course is taught to students, business people and leaders. The course is not just about public speaking, but building relationships, influencing people to your way of thinking and finally becoming a leader.

In 1936 he wrote his famous book, How to Win friends and Influence People. It is from this book, that the principles to winning friends and influencing people was […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00May 18th, 2015|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off on Become a Friendlier Person