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Want to be a better industry leader? Improve your soft skills.
Leadership Skills

Want to be a better industry leader? Improve your soft skills.

"Through that support and coaching, folks get to really explore and practice some things in new ways and just try on new behaviors to see what feels good."
Podcast: When did soft skills in industry become hard skills?
Leadership Skills

Podcast: When did soft skills in industry become hard skills?

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Lisa Brownlee from Leader’s Imago explains how managers can acquire the skills, support, and coaching they need to ...
Podcast: The one meeting every plant can’t afford to miss
Leadership Skills

Podcast: The one meeting every plant can’t afford to miss

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, author and YouTuber Joe Kuhn explores the value of a yesterday, today, and tomorrow meeting.
How to avoid an emergency maintenance culture
Leadership Skills

How to avoid an emergency maintenance culture

Joe Kuhn outlines a step-by-step guide to move from a reactive to planned maintenance culture.
Is technology the key manufacturers need to attract Millennial and Gen Z workers?
Workforce Development

Is technology the key manufacturers need to attract Millennial and Gen Z workers?

"This next generation is ambitious, they want to accomplish a lot. They want to make a lot of change, but we need to figure out how do we best harness that motivation to be a ...
Podcast: Why younger generations aren’t pursuing a career in manufacturing
Workforce Development

Podcast: Why younger generations aren’t pursuing a career in manufacturing

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Jake Hall, the Manufacturing Millennial, examines how to get the next generation excited about a career in industry...
Ask A Plant Manager
Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast

Ask a Plant Manager: Expert advice from Joe Kuhn

Meet Joe Kuhn, CMRP, former plant manager, engineer, global reliability consultant, and cohost of the Ask a Plant Manager podcast miniseries.
Podcast: How maintenance managers fail
Leadership Skills

Podcast: How maintenance managers fail

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, author and YouTuber Joe Kuhn examines the failure points for maintenance managers and how to avoid them.
How to address the skills shortage in maintenance
Skills Gap

How to address the skills shortage in maintenance

Bridging the gap takes a little strategic planning and some key tactics.
Podcast: Encouraging women to explore a career in manufacturing
Workforce Diversity

Podcast: Encouraging women to explore a career in manufacturing

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Adrianna Swift and Elizabeth Parra examine what it’s like to be a woman in manufacturing in 2024.
Podcast: Helping veterans transition from the military to manufacturing
Workforce Development

Podcast: Helping veterans transition from the military to manufacturing

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Bill Leahy and Paul Lavoie discuss Unturning Steel and their efforts to build the skilled labor pipeline.
Building the manufacturing workforce one veteran at a time
Workforce Development

Building the manufacturing workforce one veteran at a time

"We are taking service members before they start their transition out of the military, we bring them into manufacturing, train them, inculcate them, do everything to prepare them...
Ego is the enemy of plant efficiency and optimization
Leadership Skills

Ego is the enemy of plant efficiency and optimization

Joe Kuhn says don't let busy work blind you to the truth on the ground at your plant.
Podcast: Why manufacturers should embrace diversity to solve the skilled labor shortage
Changing Workforce

Podcast: Why manufacturers should embrace diversity to solve the skilled labor shortage

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, workforce experts share their perspectives on how DEI hiring can improve the manufacturing industry.
Podcast: Social media best practices for manufacturing executives
Leadership Skills

Podcast: Social media best practices for manufacturing executives

In this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Alexandria Trusov examines the behavior of manufacturing leaders in the age of social media.
How has the role of reliability manager widened over the past 10 years? 
Workforce Development

How has the role of reliability manager widened over the past 10 years? 

The responsibilities of reliability managers have multiplied, even as it gets more difficult to attract and retain experienced workers.
The risk of using new technology to enable a reactive maintenance culture
Workforce Development

The risk of using new technology to enable a reactive maintenance culture

Powerful tools are available to broaden the skill set of maintenance and reliability technicians, but some are not using them in the areas that bring greatest value to the organization...