Straightforward and effective. Not fancy.
GSD Manager Training is a program of The Effective Syndicate in Atlanta, Georgia. We train the supervisors who run manufacturing plants: the people promoted from the floor who were never taught how to lead a shift.
An organizational psychologist, an MBA and a 35-year plant veteran.
Founder of The Effective Syndicate. More than twenty years running and teaching operations teams, from the executive office to the shop floor. His rule: execution beats everything.
An organizational psychologist who spent two decades teaching leadership at a top-tier business school and was an executive at a $700M distribution company. Author of A Shipload of Leadership Nuggets and co-author of GSD Rules.
Thirty-five years in packaging and printing. Ran multiple high-performing plants for a Fortune 500 company and helped build one of the largest folding carton facilities in the world.
Live, in the room, with the people who run the shift.
GSD stands for Get Sh!t Done.
Four things every shift needs from its supervisor. We teach them in plain language, with tools your people can use on the floor the same week.
Everyone on the shift knows the priorities, the standard and who decides what.
Problems get owned and fixed together, not passed along or blamed on the last shift.
Fix the process, not the person. Lean tools that keep the same problem from coming back.
Supervisors people want to work for. That is what keeps good people on the floor.
Plants that train their supervisors with GSD
GSD Rules: Moving Managers From Unsure to Unstoppable
By Beau Groover and Dr. Michael McIntyre. The GSD system in one book, with a 30-page workbook for putting it to work.
Also from the team: A Shipload of Leadership Nuggets (Doc) and Building a Kick-Ass Culture.