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Swedes & Responsibility for Teamwork

I just finished teaching Knowledge Team Leadership to a very appreciative audience from Stockholm and Gothenburg. Here’s a picture of the class doing a final flip chart review—an exercise where student becomes teacher and reviews all of the material from the course with a partner in about 10 minutes. In this case it was very [...]

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Job Corps contractor applauds Responsibility Redefined

I spent Thursday in Layton, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, with 100 Job Corps center directors, assistant directors, and regional and corporate executives of MTC, the largest Job Corps contractor. They operate twenty-some Job Corps centers stretching from Maine to Hawaii. Job Corps is a U.S. government training program that helps young people ages sixteen to twenty-four get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.

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Do You Qualify?

I recently examined and tuned up our qualification process, big words that mean we have some standards by which we decide whether to venture into an extended engagement with a client. Context is important, so this checklist is specifically for a Responsibility Redefined culture-building project in an IT department. Here’s what I put in writing [...]

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Visiting Sweden August 2007

We just arranged a private Knowledge Team Leadership seminar in Stockholm for August 6-10 time frame and could be available the week before (July 30-August 3) for other presentations in Europe. We'll be contacting colleagues in Europe who have asked to know when I come that way, but we may not get them all, so [...]

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Modern Plastics Recognizes Power of Responsibility Redefined

The March 2007 issue of Modern Plastics magazine recognizes Partnerwerks client ATEK Plastics for their amazing four-year turn-around story in which Responsibility Redefined played a role in re-building the culture and focusing both leadership and plant employees on a powerful language for continuous improvement. Responsibility Redefined leveraged ATEK’s efforts in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, internal [...]

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