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Workforce retention: How do you keep your best employees?
In my first two blog columns for Reliable Plant, we discussed the first two steps in becoming a talent management organization. Now that you have a good idea of how to attract and hire right-fit/best-fit talent, the question becomes, “How do you keep them?” After all, if you are going to
How much would you pay for a dollar?
In my seminars and speeches, I sometimes use audience participation to drive home a point or to interrupt the “I’ve heard it all before” mind-set. It is important to put what follows in the context of problem solving or conflict. An example would be with a contentious team or when discussing
Do the people around you know why you do the things you do?
Toward the end of 2008, I reflected on the year gone past and made some decisions for how I needed to improve my engagement with team members and colleagues. One of the things that I decided to change was that I needed to push myself deeper into the details of the multitude of projects that were going
Developing the professional maintenance manager
In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant pressure to make maintenance more effective and elevate it to a prominent value-added position, the maintenance manager must become a business unit
Is your plant organization ship shape? Probably not.
You are in the engine room of the USS Lincoln. Your job as an oiler is to perform the cleaning and lubrication routes for the steam turbines. You are watching a control panel that monitors all of the ship’s mechanical functions. You have trust that the folks up on the bridge are in agreement about
Help employees get the most out of their career, their life
“Rex, your maintenance leadership mentoring program caused four employees to leave the company!” That was the response when I gave an update on the successes of a program that was celebrating its ninth anniversary with the success stories of graduates and mentors. There are two important
