How do you identify waste or issues in your processes? WHO is Tim Woods? It starts with being able to understand the different types of Muda! Or Waste in your process. After you understand what they are, you can work on reducing or eliminating them all together through various projects. Theres an acronym to help you remember what they are. Let me introduce you to TIM WOODS T- #transportation - moving the product from one cell or place to another I- #inventory - inventory beyond the planned amount for protecting from our process variation and the customer pulls M- #motion - unnecessary movement within the cell - walking to fetch tools and product within the cell W- #waiting - waiting to work on product, blocked, starved, breakdowns, bottlenecks… O- #overproduction - running product through a cell that is not needed for the customer O- #overprocessing - processing a part beyond what the customer is willing to pay for (for example -grinding flush when 0.010” is the specification) D- #defects - scrap and re-work S- #skills not used - not involving the whole team for ideas #muda #waste #timwoods #lean #leadership

If you want to be an effective leader, you need to work on your coaching skills. What does a good coach do? 1 They understand their people. 2 They take care of their people. 3 They point their people in the right direction. 4 They motivate their people to accomplish the goal What do these all have in common? Effective communication. Leaders who are coaches who are effective communicators share these abilities 1 they give and receive feedback regularly 2 they show empathy and consider the other persons perspective and emotions 3 they actively listen to their team and help implement the ideas they come up with 4 they Taylor their communication style for the individual they are working with 5 they are concise and avoid unnecessary words 6 they are clear with their words and the goals /objectives they are trying to accomplish. #people #coach #communication #LifeHacks

If you have a perfection mindset, amazing!! We just need to adjust how you think about perfection. Think about it this way, you never really have the perfect scenario, perfect timing, perfect … so you need to get it to 80% there and implement a continuous improvement mindset. Once you get it 80% there, go for it! Make it perfect little by little over time after that. Don’t let perfection slow your progress.

How do you ensure that you have career and business success in the long run? It’s simple, but not easy. I have worked with amazing business leaders and have never seen one that had a positive long term impact that didn’t put these in place. When you make decisions, do so with the priorities of #People, #Quality, #Productivity, #Cost. #PQPC. In that order, every single time. In your daily routine and the way you talk it’s easy to say the right things, but actually doing the right things can be difficult. Taking care of people can take many forms, such as ensuring people’s safety or being pleasant, or making things fun for everyone involved. Taking care of quality is relatively straightforward. Understand the customers expectations and meet or exceed them (preferably exceed them and delight the customer) coincidently, our customers are also people so look at priority number 1. Taking care of productivity is a little more technical, this can take the form of continuous improvement or making things more efficient. Taking care of cost is the one that will ensure you turn a profit. Either you increase margin by creating more value and charging more, or you reduce the costs (inputs). It is a relatively simple equation that helps the bottom line by adjusting your parameters. It’s much harder to make good long term decisions if you don’t take to heart the values of putting people first, quality second, productivity third, and cost at the end. How do you make decisions? Do you have a process that you follow every single time?

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