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Develop recruiting transformation solutions from strategy to execution at the intersection of people, process, & technology.
This is a critical job!
Hiring the the best people will dramatically effect the future and success of the company.
Value stream mapping, DMAIC, Design of Experiments, and various other tools have helped me time and time again in cutting costs, streamlining processes, and achieving process / operational excellence for my clients. As a consultant working for Lean QA I was living, eating, and breathing lean six sigma. Spoiler alert, it doesn't taste that great, but it sure helps in getting results. Over the years I added my own flare to lean six sigma. I developed a model called INOV8. Lean Six Sigma is all about problem solving. The model INOV8 that I came up with takes improvement one step forward by providing a guideline and tools to innovate and grow the business. I have gotten my lean six sigma green belt from Lockheed Martin. I'm currently working and studying for my lean six sigma black belt from ASQ. I've scheduled the test for June 2022. I wanted to throw this in here because I want you to know that I'm passionate about learning constantly.
Why is getting to the root cause during problem solving important? Once you're at the root of the problem, putting in an action to fix that root will hopefully prevent the problem from happening again. Do you know how much money and time companies waste trying to fix the same problem over and over and over and over again? I don't have an actual number because companies are embarrassed to share that statistic. But it's a lot. A whole lot. This is why root cause corrective actions are so vital to problem solving. This is where the 8D (8 disciplines of problem solving), 5 why's, and fishbone analysis come into play. That should not be the end of the story though. It's not enough to just implement corrective actions. I've always guided my clients to become proactive by implementing preventive actions which has saved them millions of dollars... Not an exaggeration, I've calculated year after year savings from the preventive actions, and its way over a million dollars for just 1 client.
Working as a Lean consultant the past 12 years has helped me develop a formula on building a culture of continuous improvement for companies. It starts off with having the team get early wins so they can start building momentum. Then training them on the concepts that helped them get those early wins. This helps them buy into the concepts way more than if they had learned the concept first and then started applying. In order to make continuous improvement stick, we need buy in. This strategy has helped win many people over, even the resistors to adopt a continuous improvement mindset. Once the mindset is in place, then few techniques like 8 wastes and error proofing become easy to implement leading to process excellence.
At Key Skills Academy my focus was to help develop leaders. I saw a gap in terms of the middle management and the lack of skills to help them succeed. Leadership development, coaching, and mentoring emerging managers and experienced managers was the best part of running Key Skills Academy as a Co Founder. I was able to provide emerging and experienced managers critical skill training such as effective communication, project management, time management, emotional intelligence, decision making, and more. I have a training presentation called the 6 types of leaders where I break down the different leadership styles and assess which style each person identifies with the most. I myself identify as a data driven and servant leader.
Being a Co-Founder and Vice President in my previous roles at smaller companies, I've dealt a lot with recruiting. I've had to ensure the process was smooth so we could hire top talent. I used analytics and quality frameworks to understand what the company need was, so i could hire accordingly. I use to try and use the Moneyball (the movie) framework as well. Analyzing our metrics and then qualifying individuals based on their skills and what could help our metrics be successful. Over the years I started using my own framework which has parts of Moneyball and famous quality methodologies. The reason I bring this up is because I have experience with recruiting, I know the language, and I know the practices. I can easily transition and hit the ground running at Meta to help the recruiting and process excellence teams streamline and transform their processes quickly.
Without strategic relationships, it's hard to get any job done. I learned that the hard way. I tried to do everything myself when a particular task was not moving that I had delegated. That task ended up not launching on time and was over budget, which I subsequently deemed a failure. From then onwards I made it a point to decode how to build successful relationships and increase collaboration. For the past 8 years I've been able to work with people to successfully accomplish 98% of all goals and targets set. I know it's not a 100%, but 8 years of goals and objectives is a lot. Also 98% is still an A+ so I'm good.