COE leader’s podcast appearance offers crash course on center
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Executive Director Peg Pennington recently visited the Ohio Manufacturing Institute to talk COE on its Manufacturing Tomorrow podcast, a twice-monthly sit-down with leaders in the trade.
Pennington’s wide-ranging chat with host Kathryn Kelley touches on COE’s philosophy and its mission in the context of the needs of today’s business world.
“If you ask most leaders today what they want in their people, they want problem solvers and they want people that are going to learn and adapt quickly and build problem-solving processes,” Pennington said.
Pennington also explores where some companies go wrong in their efforts to drive continuous improvement: A lack of shared purpose.
“Companies sometimes come at this by picking a tool, saying, ‘Oh, we have to standardize work.’ All of those (tools) are great but they have to be nested together in this complex organization, and associates in that system have to understand the ‘why.’”
Pennington’s visit to Manufacturing Tomorrow, which you can stream in full here, was followed by another COE-affiliated leader, Norbert Majerus of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Majerus and Pennington are among seven COE-affiliated podcast guests who have appeared since the show launched last year.
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