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Win People to Your Way of Thinking

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

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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.

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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

5 Days to a Reliability Culture

What You Can Do To Foster a Reliability Culture At Your Operation

Reliability Culture is like Clockwork © William Warby

Improving reliability is easier said than done. Often times you can develop great PM routines, improve equipment and have the right processes in place, but reliability doesn’t improve. Why is that? It all comes down to people. People are the heart of reliability, whether they run the equipment or maintain it.

Changing people’s perception of reliability can be a very difficult task. So where do we start? When trying to implement such […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00May 11th, 2015|Change Management, Coaching, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off on 5 Days to a Reliability Culture

Do You Make This Critical Mistake? Find Out If You Are Contributing to Reactivity

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What is the one thing that all operations have? If you guessed a breakdown hero or fire fighter, you are correct. You know the person who swoops in like superman and repairs a machine quickly. These breakdown heroes are the people who reduce the time to repair, but do they contribute to or reduce the reactivity of the site?

I remember praising an electrician […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00May 4th, 2015|Coaching, Continuous Improvement, People|Comments Off on Do You Make This Critical Mistake? Find Out If You Are Contributing to Reactivity

Focus On the Foundation: It Will Sustain You


Foundation Martin Lopatka

As Engineers, Craft and Maintenance people, we have a tendency to be excited by the technological advancements that become available. This is not a bad thing provided we do not let them become the flavour of the month or take our attention away from what we are here to do. Enable Reliability and Maintenance.

Often we find much information on the advanced technical topics such as […]

By |2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00April 27th, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Data Standards, Roles, Roles & Responsibilities|Comments Off on Focus On the Foundation: It Will Sustain You