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Paul Akers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1016 total appearances

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The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

will say, hey, we're going to have a quick meeting in production.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So the eight people that are in production will go over and the lead person will say, okay, these are some of the issues we have.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

We have this huge order from Amazon.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

We got to crank this out.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And we need to get a few more people in here from graphic design to come help us.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

We call that bus.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

We get people from other departments to come help us if we're overburdened.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And we have a new process on how we're doing the 2P10 activators.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So the new process is this.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So they're training the people in that short little meeting they're having.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

They're training them on the new process and they're apprising the fact that Amazon just ordered 2,000 of these and they have to be done by the end of the day.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So that would be an example of a meeting that they would have.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And then if a department needs a meeting for some reason, if shipping and receiving, injection molding, engineering...

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

whatever.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

They'll have a quick meeting of their people, address some of the issues, or maybe they're working on a big Kaizen, a big project that they're working on.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

They'll put the five people together in engineering.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

They'll say, okay, this is what we're trying to do.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

We're trying to move the injection molding five feet to the left so we can fit in this new chiller.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

Anybody got any ideas on how to do that or any suggestions?

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And the engineers will look at it and say, well, I think the water line's there, but we need a bigger compressor tank to deal with the