Leader Feeder

Discover how an engaging plant manager can empower your team and achieve better results.

Four myths prevent frontline leaders from having coaching conversations with distribution employees. If you are to commence coaching, many believe it is either to invoke disciplinary action, it will be time-consuming, only managers can initiate the conversation, or it will be intimidating. In today’s discussion we will challenge those myths.

The assumption within manufacturing, production, and distribution is that as long as you have technical skills and some experience in the facility, you have the key skills of a plant supervisor that will make you successful. This is why most companies promote technically strong people into supervisory roles only to see them struggle. Here we […]

When enrolling in virtual training opportunities, there is hesitancy as to whether or not virtual leadership training for logistics leaders is an effective method for your team. This week we will evaluate this approach so you can make an informed decision as to whether this is right for you and your leaders.

Burnout happens in the workplace, but your leadership can take preventative measures before it goes past the point of no return.

  Retaining employees is a real issue in manufacturing, and it is not because these workers detest the idea of remaining at any job longer than a year. We discuss how manufacturing leaders can help retain more employees.

The truth is that people do not always learn the same way and participating in any form of training will not be as effective regardless of where it comes from. We discuss how to choose the right leadership logistics training for you.

It is essential to everyone’s success that you dedicate time to training your leaders to ensure that your company can grow into the future.

Whether you have a factory or a warehouse, it is very problematic when team members display poor attendance in plants during their scheduled hours. Today we will discuss chronic absenteeism and how to fix it.

  Training warehouse supervisors must increase their effectiveness to sustain changes over time. There is a current perception that there is never enough time to participate in training. Certainly not enough time to do a proper follow-up to reinforce those leadership skills.

Essential Skills Logistic Supervisors Need When the role of a team member evolves to become a leader, it’s assumed that they inherit the essential skills logistic supervisors require to succeed purely based on the time invested within the company. That could not be further from the truth. The number of years with any business does […]

A significant number of companies view training more as an event and not as much as a process. There is a current bias regarding logistic supervisors: they will not stay engaged with training after it is delivered, and it is impossible to change these habits because they are deeply ingrained. Today we will challenge this […]

Last week we focused on quiet quitting. This week our focus is reversed as we explore manufacturing leaders quiet firing.

Are your factory supervisors quiet quitting? Today we are going to address quiet quitting, but not regarding your team members; we are focusing on your supervisors.

Do your warehouse supervisors need support? We need to look at the support that your supervisors feel so that they can, in turn, create supportive relationships with their team.

What makes an efficient manufacturing supervisor?  We need to look at efficiency, not necessarily production efficiency on the floor, but your efficiency as a front line leader. What is it that makes an efficient manufacturing supervisor?

  How can a recession affect your front line leaders? Today we need to look at how a recession is affecting front line leaders. We will also give you some tips for how you can increase the effectiveness of your leaders even when there’s a business downturn.

How does the Front Line Leadership Team play a role in times of laying plant employees off? This is not the most positive subject, but in any manufacturing or distribution organization, there are times when the workload drops enough where there is no other choice but to action some layoffs.

  What is it that plant managers need to know about situational leadership? Let us look at this topic, that many of you have probably heard before, called situational leadership.

We can start by taking a look at the confidence levels of the front line leaders responsible for interacting with most of the people in your organization.

What is the importance of on-the-job training for front line leaders? How do we break down such a concept? First, we must understand the importance of on-the-job training and how to use it to develop the competencies and confidence needed in front line workers.

How can we go about creating loyal employees in manufacturing? The first step we can take is to talk about loyalty. Ask yourself: Is there such a thing as loyalty in the workplace?

How can we go about engaging logistics supervisors to apply training? We need to examine how these supervisors can be engaged to do so in order to fully know the answer.

  Why should your frontline leaders need to care about employee performance? It might seem like a “no-brainer” that frontline leaders should do so. The problem is that they may not understand how dramatically they influence that performance.

How do the supervisors in a distribution centre affect an organization’s workplace culture? To understand the answer, we must first look at whether it is the employees or supervisors (or perhaps even both) who define this culture.