Manufacturing Executive Martina Kuhlmeyer Had Too Many High-Priority Initiatives

Founder of Power Up Your Team Episode page with video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #187 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Martina Kuhlmeyer, the Founder of Power Up Your Team — and she’s the host of a podcast with that same name. As Leadership Coach and Team Building Strategist, she is guiding CEOs and Founders in high-growth companies to build a resilient team so they can scale and win in the marketplace. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Martina spent 30+ years working for small and several fortune 100 companies, including General Electric, Textron, Fidelity Investments and Liberty Mutual. Martina held a variety of executive roles focused on continuous improvement AND driving large strategic change initiatives. As P&L owner, she managed the successful turnaround of a $1.3 billion asset portfolio management company. Martina was born and raised in Germany. In this episode, Martina tells her favorite mistake story about starting to use a management process called “strategy deployment” (a.k.a. "hoshin kanri") and how she overcomplicated it by having too many “high-priority” initiatives. Why did she and others on her team make that mistake? How did they recover? And how did they work to create a culture that adjusts and learns from mistakes? We also talk about questions and topics including: We were introduced by Karyn Ross from Episode 3 Karyn's foundation - the Love and Kindness Project “Strategy Deployment” (or “Hoshin Kanri“) What was the Impact of this mistake? – over processing What did you learn and how did you adjust? — “reflection and insight” A mistake to think you’re going to do something new in a perfect way? Mistake of having too many “high priority” initiatives? How do you create a culture in an organization where learning from mistakes is a reality? Mistake to use too much jargon around continuous improvement? “Strategy alignment” vs “strategy deployment” Mistake to have a large scale initiative (like Lean or Six Sigma) when the CEO isn’t full leading it? Tell us about the podcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support