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PODCAST

How Manufacturers Improve Podcast

Welcome to How Manufacturers Improve, a Manufacturers Alliance podcast, where we help everyone who works in manufacturing become a better leader and problem solver so all manufacturers can remain competitive.

business management

All Episodes

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Managing Solvency During a Crisis

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2022/06/14

If you want to expand your business acumen, understand management concerns, and learn more about how you can improve the financial performance of your company, then you won't want to miss this week’s Podcast episode featuring Julie Whitney. Julie Whitney is the SVP Commercial Banking Manager of Bremer Bank. She draws from her 25 years of experience to provide a very practical checklist that will help improve your company’s cash position, withstand any future economic turmoil, and best yet be there

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38:24

Becoming Successful Women in a Male-dominated Industry

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2022/05/31

Enjoy our conversation with Shannon Karels and Kathy Miller as they share their insights in how to strategically develop relationships and a community filled with diverse teams that help everyone grow and get better. To take advantage of our free book offer for the first 100 submissions (until June 15th, 2022) visit: https://www.mfrall.com/opsisters/ Special thanks to this episode’s sponsor, Konik. Whether you’re seeking a direct-hire or contract employee, Konik’s technical talent network can

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28:28

Influencing without Authority

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2022/05/17

Old school leaders would dictate, demand, and often be very demeaning. The new school of leadership is all about influence. On this week’s Podcast join guest Matt Kanz, Sr. Vice President of HR for Jack Links Protein Snacks as he shares what it means to influence without authority.

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26:40

Hiring when you are desperate

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2022/05/03

On this week’s podcast, enjoy our conversation with Dana Stump, the corporate recruiting manager and HR business partner with the oil and natural gas division of Graco, and Kirby Sneen, President of Manufacturers Alliance, as they discuss their thoughts and experiences on why you should avoid the temptation to just hire someone and a few practical things you can do to prevent it from happening. If you’re ready to connect and learn from other HR professionals in your industry, learn more about our

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25:10

Gaining Buy-in To Change

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2022/04/19

What would it take for you to get buy-in for change? Join Chrissy Peloquin and Kirby Sneen from Manufacturers Alliance as they discuss how you can maximize the good from change and minimize unintended consequences. Learn more about our Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification by visiting www.mfrall.com/6-sigma-green-belt-certification/ Special thanks to this episode’s sponsor, Bremer Bank. Find out more at www.bremer.com

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41:04

Measures of Success

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2022/04/05

Your metrics should guide you in getting better results not leave you feeling like you’re on a rollercoaster. If you’ve ever jumped to conclusions, wanted to get to the root cause and never found one, or want to lead your team so they use data to make improvements then this week’s episode is for you. In this week’s podcast episode we discuss Measures of Success by award-winning author, Mark Graban. You’ll learn how the measurement techniques in it can help you stop overreacting to every up and

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27:55

Improve Retention with Stay Interviews

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2022/03/22

Stay interviews are growing in popularity for good reason. They can help you better understand the unique needs and interests of everyone on your team and do exactly what the name implies – help you retain talent. Enjoy the conversation with Kirby Sneen from Manufacturers Alliance and Tom Goettl the Vice President of Konik Network as they discuss how you can overcome these challenges so you can successfully improve retention by implementing stay interviews. Tom Goettel the Vice President of Konik

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33:15

Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness

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2022/03/08

This week’s podcast episode is all about Improving your OEE that is your overall equipment effectiveness. You won’t want to miss Rick Bernett share from his 30+ years of operations management experience. Rick Bernett has 30+ years of operations management experience from a variety of manufacturing environments including high volume low mix, high volume, high mix, and job shops from several different industries including food, consumer electronics, and metal fabrication. If you’re ready to learn and

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26:41

How Connected Products Increase Capacity

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2022/02/22

In this episode, Mark Stevens shares from his 25 years of experience in guiding companies through technology integrations and operational experience. Once you connect your equipment on the shop floor the data you collect can help you increase equipment uptime and availability, accelerate the pace of problem-solving, and improve your companies output despite material and labor shortages. You might be thinking that connecting equipment is limited to the new machines or big companies with big

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27:08

Preventing Problems From Happening

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2022/02/08

In this episode, Ryan Fleser, the Director of Quality and EHS at Uponor North America, shares how to take yourself and your team from fighting fires, to preventing problems from happening. This episode is all about preventing problems from happening. One of the biggest problems we all see that causes lower yields than what we’d like is scrap and day-to-day fluctuations in yield make it hard to figure out when your process is really reliable. So how do you prevent problem from happening and reduce

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18:05

How to Eliminate Variation

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2022/01/25

In this episode, Kirby shares a few tips and meaningful approaches to eliminate variation, so you can improve product quality, increase customer satisfaction and have fewer frustrating days. If you’re ready to take your growth to the next level, learn more about our Greenbelt Certification by visiting: https://www.mfrall.com/6-sigma-green-belt-certification/

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40:36

Creating a Unified Team: Peer Group Panel

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2022/01/18

In this bonus episode Kacinda Ruiz, Meg Hanaman, Jill Zoschke, and Kirby Sneen share how they have gone from an “us vs them” culture to a unified team.

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28:25

Developing an Army of Problem Solvers

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2022/01/11

In this episode Diane Bartels and Kirby Sneen discuss how you can leverage your success, attack the red, and draw out the natural problem-solving capability in all of us. The idea of developing a critical mass of people at your company to be able to solve their own problems can sound great but can leave you wondering where and how to start. But you’ve got to figure out because you know it will lead to a competitive advantage and you know it will help you retain talent and you know that developing

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32:18

Top Takeaways

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2021/12/28

In this episode, we will cover our top takeaways from 2021 including working with different personalities, developing metrics that drive the right behaviors, overcoming significant supply chain issues, and creating a culture that is focused on accountability. Thank you for listening to the show and allowing us to feature some of the best talent manufacturing has to offer and address some of the biggest challenges the industry has ever seen and as a result grow the impact of the Podcast to over

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27:07

Learning to Lead Yourself

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2021/12/14

In this episode, Kirby Sneen and Dan Powley discuss how you can perform at your best and lead others to a life that is significant. If you want to be an influential leader, you need to do a good job of leading yourself first. The challenge we all face is in clearly understanding our role, responsibility, and limitations. In this interview with Dan Powley, a Continuous Improvement Leader for AbelConn, you will be guided through how to transition from survival to success, so that you can lead

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34:37

Identifying High Potential Talent

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2021/11/30

In this episode, Kirby Sneen and Jody O'neil discuss how you define and identify high potential talent. In today’s job climate, we need people who can lead teams, grow businesses, and become next-generation company leaders. Consequently, we have to find the people who aspire to grow themselves develop teams and have a vision on how to do it. If you don’t identify these people your prospects for future growth will be limited, leaving you, your customers, even your own team members wondering how

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28:59

Making Data Driven Decisions

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2021/11/16

Data validates our improvement efforts so that we can spend our time on the right things and invest our energy in the right places. In this episode, Kara Slocum, the Director of Operations at Artistic Finishes Inc. joins Kirby Sneen to dive into how you can practically apply data to get the results you want to achieve. To learn more about how you can apply data through our Greenbelt certification visit www.mfrall.com/certifications The sponsor for today’s podcast is CBIZ, a leading provider of

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30:08

Effective 1-on-1’s

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2021/11/02

In this episode, Neal Johnson shares about how to have effective 1-on-1’s Neal Johnson is passionate about identifying, creating, and teaching leadership tools. He is currently the Director of Manufacturing at GN Resound – a global leader in Hearing aid development and manufacturing. He has been at GN for just short of 5 years, and prior to GN he worked in the printing industry for both privately and publicly held printers. To learn more about the certification programs offered at Manufacturers

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21:25

How to Improve Your Coaching Skills Part 2

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2021/10/19

In this episode, Tammi Dorion shares about how to improve your coaching skills Tammi is a highly adaptable, dynamic leader skilled in driving lean methodology. She has a passion for fostering a continuous improvement culture by engaging employees in daily initiatives and pursuing business excellence in all functional areas. Enjoy our conversation as we talk about a practical plan anyone can use to help ensure they are focused on helping others reach higher levels of performance. If you like

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28:33

How to Improve Your Coaching Skills: Part 1

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2021/10/05

Kelly is a Lean Manufacturing Coach at GE Aviation in Rutland, Vermont. She joined GE in 2019 after 7 years of manufacturing engineering experience in solar and industrial consumer products. Kelly has been practicing continuous improvement for her entire career and in the last year and a half has transitioned from practicing to coaching. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and she lives with her family in the Upper Valley nestled between Vermont and New

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