Self-Guided Learnings

How effective are your meetings? Do you lead meetings that build energy and urgency towards common goals? Enable decision making? Allow people to take accountability? Take the quiz to find out!

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Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job―and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor and your entire company. Your boss depends on you for cooperation, reliability, and honesty. And you depend on him or her for links to the rest of the organization, for setting priorities, and for obtaining critical resources. By managing your boss―clarifying your own and your supervisor's strengths, weaknesses, goals, work styles, and needs―you cultivate a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship―including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. Thought provoking and practical, Managing Your Boss enables you to lay the groundwork for one of the most crucial working relationships you'll have in your career.

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All too often, simple acts of human kindness are overlooked and underutilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z Psoner shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find their voice and making them feel like heroes.

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This recorded session of the Workday Leader Training: Recruiting, Onboarding, Offboarding webinar will help you understand your role in the new Recruiting, Onboarding, and Offboarding processes in Workday.

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Interviewing at Barry-Wehmiller is an e-learning series designed to set expectations for leaders in the recruiting process at Barry-Wehmiller while also introducing the concept of competency-based interviewing. This training covers everything from creating the candidate experience, competency-based interviewing techniques, interview questioning and notetaking skills, identifying and avoiding bias, protecting personal information, and facilitating a structured interview.

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This training is designed for leaders with direct reports in Workday. They have the manager security role. This role automatically gives them the ability to view information about their team and to take action related to them. Watch this training to learn some of the important rights and responsibilities that accompany the manager role in Workday.

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An inductee to IndustryWeek's Hall of Fame, George Koenigsaecker, illustrates successful strategies and valuable lessons learned with case histories of U.S. leaders who have been instrumental in bringing Lean to the forefront. He explains the use of value stream analysis at the leadership level and describes how to structure kaizen events that can improve the value stream. Organized in the chronological sequence that a leader embarking on a Lean journey would experience, the book discusses the methods used by the author during the Hon Company’s successful Lean conversion, which doubled productivity, tripled revenues, and led IndustryWeek to recognize Hon as one of the "World’s 100 Best Managed Firms."

The book not only introduces powerful leadership tools―including strategy deployment, transformation value stream analysis, and transformation plan of care―but also arms potential change agents with the soft skills needed to define, develop, and communicate their vision. Detailing the steps required to sustain improvements, it supplies time-tested guidance for effective leadership throughout a Lean transformation in any organization.

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In its latest national bestseller by Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.

Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself--and the world around you--forever.

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In The Lean Turnaround by Art Byrne, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results. His primary message is this: Lean strategy isn't just for manufacturing. In fact, Byrne is using this very approach in his present position at a private equity firm.

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Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were inspired to write this book because of the epidemic of unnecessary suffering connected with business, including the destruction of the environment; increasing numbers living paycheck-to-paycheck and barely surviving; and rising rates of depression and stress leading to chronic health problems.

In a world that urgently needs healing on many levels, this is a movement whose time has come. The Healing Organization shows how it can be done, how it is being done, and how you can begin to do it too.

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Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work—in fact, only seventeen percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn:

-Why your strengths aren't “what you are good at” and your weaknesses aren’t “what you are bad at.”
-How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths.
-The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you and away from those that don’t.
-How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you’re bragging and about your weaknesses without sounding like you’re whining.
-The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career.

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How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

In Dare to Lead, Brene Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BSstyle that millions of readers have come to expect and love.

Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”

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Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. This book by Will Guidara features sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.

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In this New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon.com best-selling book, Ron Kaufman lays out the steps you can take to build a sustainable culture that delivers outstanding service every day. He offers the tools and practices that have been proven effective in businesses, governments, communities, and homes; on every continent; and in many languages. Through perspective changing insights and case studies, you will learn how the world's best performing companies have changed the game through service - and how you too can follow this proven path to an uplifting transformation.

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Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things.

In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation, and failure. Why?

The answer became clear during a conversation with a Marine Corps general. "Officers eat last," he said. Sinek watched as the most junior Marines ate first while the most senior Marines took their place at the back of the line. What's symbolic in the chow hall is deadly serious on the battlefield: Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort - even their own survival - for the good of those in their care.

Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside.

Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.

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Authors James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones provide a thoughtful expansion upon their value-based business system based on the Toyota model. All businesses must define the "value" that they produce as the product that best suits customer needs. The leaders must then identify and clarify the "value stream," the nexus of actions to bring the product through problems solving, information management, and physical transformation tasks. Next, "lean enterprise" lines up suppliers with this value stream. "Flow" traces the product across departments. "Pull" then activates the flow as the business re-orients towards the pull of the customer's needs. Finally, with the company reengineered towards its core value in a flow process, the business re-orients towards "perfection," rooting out all the remaining muda (Japanese for "waste") in the system. Despite the authors' claims to "actionable principles for creating lasting value in any business during any business conditions," the lean model is not demonstrated with broad applications in the service or retail industries. But those manager's whose needs resonate with those described in the Lean Thinking case studies will find a host of practical guidelines for streamlining their processes and achieving manufacturing efficiencies. 

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Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature--not just another program of the month.

America is in the midst of a service crisis that has left a wake of disillusioned customers from coast to coast. Raving Fans includes startling new tips and innovative techniques that can help anyone create a revolution in any workplace--and turn their customers into raving, spending fans.

"Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans."

This, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day--in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organization or business, deliver stunning customer service and achieve miraculous bottom-line results.

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Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic by Bill George that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North. Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills - it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.

Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you'll find the true leader inside you. This book shows you how to use your natural leadership abilities to inspire and empower others to excellence in today's complex global world. Discover Your True North enables you to become the leader you were born to be, and stay on track of your True North.

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An international business expert, Erin Meyer, helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.

Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

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Radical Candor by Km Scott is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring its obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging its ruinous empathy. When you do neither its manipulative insincerity.

This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results you're all proud of.

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The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller by David Mann provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish … and start again

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Great leadership isn't a privilege, it is an imperative of our business. Watch senior leaders from across the organization introduce the LEADER EXPECTATIONS and COMMITMENTS—and explain how they can help our team members grow in their fulfillment.

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The X-matrix is a critical part of Barry-Wehmiller’s approach to strategic planning and strategy deployment.  This session provides an overview of the why, what, and how of an X-matrix in our organization and offers skills on how to reference an x-matrix within your team.

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This course is designed to introduce you to Barry-Wehmiller Team Member Expectations. In this module, you’ll think about the culture you experience today and compare it to the culture you’d like to have. You’ll think about your role in shaping culture at Barry-Wehmiller and how clear expectations can help all of us deliver the culture we’d like to have. Finally, you’ll learn about the two expectations we have for all Barry-Wehmiller team members. 

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This course is designed to introduce you to the Barry-Wehmiller Team Member Commitments. In this module, we’ll define Team Member Expectations and Commitments, and we’ll show the connection between the two. Then, we’ll explore each Commitment in more detail.

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This course is designed to introduce you to the Barry-Wehmiller Leader Expectations. If you haven’t reviewed the Introduction to Team Member Expectations module, we recommend taking that training first, as this module builds on that one. In this module, you’ll examine the impact of great leadership on team member engagement, and you’ll learn how leader expectations create a foundation of people and performance in harmony. Finally, we’ll review each leader expectation in detail. 

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This course is designed to introduce you to Barry-Wehmiller's Leader Commitments. In this module, we’ll define Leader Expectations and Commitments for you, and we’ll show the connection between the two. Then you’ll review each Leader Commitment in detail. Please note that this module reflects a total of ten (10) Leader Commitments, however there are now eight (8) Leader Commitments as of May 2023.

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This eLearning walks participants through the foundations of Barry-Wehmiller’s Vision for Safety and how it translates into daily activities for all team members.

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An important message from Barry-Wehmiller President Kyle Chapman about the launch of BW’s inclusion initiatives. He shares some of the initial steps we’re taking, as well as why ensuring a greater sense of belonging for all of our team members, both now and in the future, is a critical part of building and sustaining a vibrant organization with a culture of care.

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This book by Daniel Silvert and Merrick Rosenberg provides an engaging narrative around how people are different- but predictably different.  It provides a nice complement to the DISC behavioral profiles explored in the Listen Like a Leader course but can also be useful independently.

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The following training has been created in response to required Cal/OSHA Injury and Illness Prevention Plans and in particular directive SB553, which identifies the need to establish preventative steps to combat the growing risk of serious incidents of violence in the workplace. Each element will help you be better prepared to face the risk of violence in the workplace during your day-to-day activities. The content is presented to help you understand: the scenarios where you may face any relevant risk, preventative strategies that can be taken, plus immediate response actions that will help keep you and others free from harm.

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An orientation to intentional self-assessment and growth utilizing the Leader Commitments inventory.

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Watch this recorded webinar to learn all about Barry-Wehmiller's new organization-wide process, Performance Cycle, meant to help team members perform to the best of their abilities in alignment with the organization's overall goals.

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• Please Note: This training focuses on content regarding Custom Goals. If you are a team member with standard goals, or if you are unsure of your goal type, please consult your leader.

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Watch this recorded webinar on Standard Goals for Team Members to understand the current state of performance, why a performance cycle matters, and why we need to set goals.

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Watch this recorded webinar on Custom Goals for Team Members to understand the current state of performance, why a performance cycle matters, and why we need to set goals.

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Watch this recorded webinar on Standard Goals for Leaders to understand the current state of performance, why a performance cycle matters, and why we need to set goals.

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Watch this recorded webinar on Custom Goals for Leaders to understand the current state of performance, why a performance cycle matters, and why we need to set goals.

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John Kotter’s key work provides one of the most popular ways to view change in organizations.  Learn how to be mindful of the many aspects of major change initiatives.

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This article by Robert F. Hurley helped form the foundation of Barry-Wehmiller’s commitment to Trust and the creation of its unique Trust Model.  The article highlights core behaviors to build trust with others.

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This classic book was authored by Charles H. Kepner and Benjamin B. Tregoe and forms the foundation of their internationally acclaimed Kepner Tregoe process.

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This classic Lean book by John Shook describes best practices in the A3 process of communication and project leadership.

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This critical work in the area of business leadership is authored by Barry-Wehmiller’s good friend, Raj Sisodia.  The book lays out a calling for business leaders to create value for all stakeholders and to create enduring relationships with team members, customers, and financers as a result

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This book by Geoffrey Bellman and Kathleen Ryan provides the framework for which Barry-Wehmiller’s Team Development model is based on.  It describes a way to consider the core elements of team dynamics and how to build effective teams over time.

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This book lays out the philosophy of Menlo Innovations and key BW collaborator Richard Sheridan.  Menlo has instilled a thriving culture with customer focus and embedded continuous improvement practices.

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This book by Chip and Dan Heath provides the foundation for Barry-Wehmiller’s storytelling model.  The book highlights the critical elements to make messages stick with audiences of all kinds.

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This book by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan looks at critically embedding continuous improvement methodologies in a business through rigorous execution.

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This book by David M. Cote explores how leaders can meet the competing interests to meet short-term goals and still invest in the long-term future of an organization

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This video from acclaimed author Brene Brown provides a practical description of empathy and a few critical behaviors to exhibit empathy to others.  The video is core to defining BW’s culture where Everybody Matters​

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Bob Chapman's journey to find his true calling, going behind the scenes as his team tackles real-world challenges with caring, empathy, and inspiration. It also provides clear steps to transform your own workplace, whether you lead two people or 200,000. While the Barry-Wehmiller way isn't easy, it is simple.

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