The importance of developing your team to their fullest potential has never been more important. It’s not uncommon for printing company owners and CEOs to invest in leadership training, they send their folks to industry conferences, provide coaching and encourage...
Face it, printers are experienced at attacking productivity, inefficiencies, and re-work on the production floor. Faster makereadies, throughput and automation as well as equipment utilization, lean and lights out production have become standard agenda items for all...
Here’s a statement that most leaders have never answered out loud. Why would a really good person want to work for you? They don’t ask why you think this is a good company, or why they should leave a company where they are successful to join yours. Those are different...
What’s the problem? The problem is that your team has grown stale. That doesn’t mean they’re bad people or that they aren’t working hard. In fact, that’s what makes this problem difficult to spot. Everyone shows up. The work gets done. Customers are taken care of. The...
The work you’re best at may no longer be the work your company needs you to do. Face it, you didn’t start your career as a printing company CEO. You most likely came up through sales, production, finance or operations – or maybe a combination of them. You rose to the...
You’ve got a strategic plan right? Most printing company owners I meet all have one. To be kind, some are more real than others. It’s something they worked on, they believe in, and could probably recite it back to you if you woke them up at 2 AM. That’s not the issue....