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I am excited to be providing a new class titled " 8 Marks of Effective Engineering Dialogue ". This is one of my Outcome Accelerator offerings that can be performed in 2 days with your team. I am a visual thinker, so to describe these " 8 Marks " I will do it with a few diagrams... Let's consider a piece of automation in a medical device consumable production facility. We will focus on two people working to improve this machine's OEE: The Process Eng has been trained in Lea

Every project is voiceless. This might sound esoteric, and it probably is, but this helped me distill what a core function of a project manager is: A project manager acts as the project’s “voice”. There are many activities and definitions of what a project manager is, but at a foundational level, I believe this is a good starting place. Examples of what this “voice” can look like are shown below: One way a project can have a "voice" is to report on it's health. This can be

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Nieto-Rodriguez, A. (Ed.). (2023). Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook : How to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects . Harvard Business Review Press.

Linder, N., & Undheim, T. A. (2022). Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations . Wiley

Thompson, G. J., & Jenkins, J. B. (2013). Verbal judo: The gentle art of persuasion . William Morrow.

Rosenberg, M. B. (2015). Nonviolent communication: A language of life (3rd ed.). PuddleDancer Press

Grenny, J., Patterson, K., Maxfield, D., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2023). Crucial Influence: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change . McGraw Hill Professional.