Employee Involvement Doubles Plant Productivity — Two Examples

Preparing the Soil Managers of a California manufacturing plant with several hundred employees, at corporate’s prompting, agreed to build a more open workplace. Several meetings with the plant leadership group produced a vision and a plan. Supervisors were...

A Plant Turnaround, The Manager’s Story

By engaging employees, a manager improves productivity and avoids closing the plant. This is his story in his words. “I was a Plant Manager at the California Plant of a multi-plant Fortune 50 company. There I worked with Meridian Group for a number of years, and with...

Culture Change in Three Days?

My partner and I had an initial three day visit with a new client in the Midwest. The company’s workforce was overworked and demoralized. Turnover exceeded 80%. The managers wanted to improve morale and help new hires and temporary employees quickly become...

8 Examples of Successful Culture Change

“If you know where you are going, it doesn’t matter where you start.” Anonymous Here are eight specific examples of the small steps managers took on the path to creating major company-wide culture change. Culture change is not a broad red carpet...