On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Sarah Rice, Corporate and Community Impact Specialist, speaks with Michele Checcucci, CEO of RV Italy, and Michilah Grimes, Director of Corporate and Community Impact. They talk about caring for the community and taking it global through the example of the 100,000 hour initiative that was started in 2017.    “Donating money is easy. Donating time is harder, but it gives you much more than donating money. And if you can do both, it’s great.” -Michele Checcucci [16:20]   “So I think while there’s some negativity in this world today, what this initiative has done for our company has also spread all the positivity.” -Michilah Grimes [31:31]   What You Will Learn: [00:35] Meet Michele and Michilah [02:33] The 100,000 hour initiatives [06:26] How to replicate this initiatives across the world [09:41] How Michele identifies outstanding team members [14:45] How they inspire team members to serve [21:44] 2022 goals for Italy [25:14] How they work with HR to bring awareness to the programs [33:12] A personal story and how the stakeholder groups respond [38:30] How they share the impact with the team [47:30] Embracing new team members   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

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Servant Leadership and Youth Outreach

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Sarah Rice, Corporate and Community Impact Specialist, speaks with Kevin Deary, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Indiana, about facilities standards. Kevin pulls from his experiences building and renovating spaces for the Boys & Girls Clubs across the county to share his thought process when deciding the aesthetics and the look of a facility. He also talks about how he incorporates input from team members, children and teenagers when designing the space.   “We’re always blown away when kids come in and affirm our thoughts and our dreams as we help them affirm their dreams.” -Kevin Deary [12:55]   What You Will Learn: [00:49] Meet Kevin [01:55] How he got to Elkhart County from Boston [03:13] His thought process renovating spaces [09:25] The spaces devoted for teens [15:53] What the feedback has been from team members [20:28] Advice he would gives to leaders [21:19] Keeping safety in mind and his leadership style   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

The Importance of Facilities and Work Spaces

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, John Vermeesch, a director of leadership development, speaks with Major General John Richardson, currently serving as the commanding general of the Army’s First Cavalry Division. Major General Richardson shares what has inspired and contributed to his success as a leader. He talks about how he creates a cohesive team founded in trust and an environment that allows everyone to excel. He also discusses how he adapts to lead at the enterprise level.   “This idea of adaptability was this next big focus, I guess you would say, for me and for my philosophy on leadership. So now, it really boiled down to two things for me: building cohesive teams and adaptability, creating adaptive leaders and really adaptive organizations. The common denominator between those two is mutual trust.” -Major General John Richardson [16:02]   What You Will Learn: [00:39] Meet Major General John Richardson [03:59] What he learned from Little Bighorn Battle [08:03] What is the First Cavalry Division [11:13] Creating a cohesive team founded in trust [20:05] How he creates an environment where everyone can excel [25:17] Adapting to lead at the enterprise level [32:46] Advice for leading organizational culture change   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Achieving Success at the Tactical and Strategic Level of Leadership

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, speaks with Erick Click, VP of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) about work safety. Erick talks about the importance of safety at the workplace and how it functions with leadership. He discusses the challenges and roadblocks he’s faced and also shares what people can do to create a more safer environment.   “They get way more conscious of it after something happens. They see a teammate get hurt or something like that. Then it’s like wow, now it’s top priority again, and we’re saying it always needs to be top priority.” -Edgar Cabello [14:56]   “I think it’s just like everything else. The effort you put into it is directly proportional to the results that you see. So It’s super important that you’re putting effort into working safely.” -Erick Click [20:35]   What You Will Learn: [00:39] Meet Erick [02:24] The importance of safety [04:39] The function of safety and leadership [06:38] The progression with safety over the last decade [13:07] Dangers of having a nice safety record [18:17] Challenges and roadblocks [21:37] One thing Erick wants people to understand [23:58] Things to make the workspace safe   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Safety is Sexy

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Sarah Rice, Corporate and Community Impact Specialist, speaks with Amish Shah, CEO of Kem Krest, about business agility. Amish shares how the pandemic helped him transition his business, how he brought leadership together to execute it. He also talks about how he stayed strong while he dealt with the fear and anxiety and how the company adapted during the unprecedented time.   “Where agility starts is really understanding the lack of agility you might have in certain areas. It’s like understanding the gaps.” -Amish Shah [15:19]   What You Will Learn: [00:??] Meet Amish [01:19] How the pandemic helped him transition his business [09:49] Initial phase of bringing leadership group together [15:45] How they adapted through the pandemic [19:55] How a leader stays strong while dealing with the fear and anxiety [24:28] A new direction for the company [33:36] What Amish would redo [35:56] His home life   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Business Agility

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, speaks with Eric Nielsen, general manager for one of the largest plants at Lippert. Eric talks about the importance of celebrating and recognizing team members. He shares the big and small ways he does this while running a busy shop.   “Just the journey of figuring out how you celebrate them and what things you do and how you’re creative, that brought the team together too. And it became a very intimate department where we all had each others’ back, and we all cared for each other. When you can as a leadership team feel like you’re that bonded and close to your team members, watch out. You guys can do some great things.” -Eric Nielsen [10:47]   What You Will Learn: [01:00] Eric’s work trajectory and his work at Lippert [08:44] Why it’s important to celebrate and recognize team members [11:42] Ways to celebrate  - both big and small [15:50] How they adapted during the pandemic [20:01] How they run the busy shop [23:04] The commitment to recognizing and celebrating people [25:14] Some of the coolest results Eric has seen [31:27] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Look at the structure of your business. What things are negatively reinforced vs positively reinforced? [33:24] A lesson from Paisley and the creative journey to make things happen   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Celebration and Recognition

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Dr. Amber Selking, VP of Leadership & Culture Development, speaks with Brian Selman, Assistant Director of Coaching and Player Development for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brian shares how his organization create a culture that drives player engagement and the challenges he faces to get the players to engage and trust the process. He also discusses how they measure impact and how ego plays a role in personal and team development.   “Everytime we speak to the player, our credibility is on the line, and we have to be able to engage them with both a way that they can trust and a way that they can see adds value to their progress.” -Brian Selman [10:58]   “There’s a pragmatic nature to what we do. It’s not words on the wall and philosophy. It is… it’s goals, right? It’s identity. It’s giving people something tangible that they can wrap their head and their heart around and intentionally develop moving forward.” -Amber Selking [22:07]   What You Will Learn: [00:37] Meet Brian [02:04] How his organization thinks about player engagement [04:28] Creating a culture of engagement [09:55] Some things Brian does to drive player engagement [13:27] Comparing rookies vs veteran players at training camps [18:10] Challenges to get players to engage and trust the process [22:53] How ego plays a role in personal development and/or team development [30:42] How they measure the impact [34:11] Baseball itself is a lifestyle [36:32] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Challenge yourself to play the Five Why Game. Why do you do what you do? Come up with a layer deeper for every answer until you get to something you can really sink your teeth into. Also, root in gratitude.   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Team engagement at the Major League level

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Jen Snyder, Leadership Director in the Chassis Division, speaks with Tim Richards, AGM for the newest location in the Chassis Division. Together they talk about the importance of self-evaluation and feedback for honing leadership skills. They also discuss Lippert’s Rate My Leader survey, why it’s important to evaluate leader quality and core values and how to share the results with the team members. Listen to Tim’s advice for leaders that have received constructive feedback.   “And sometimes it can be hard to hear feedback too, so when it’s that balance of ‘here are your strengths and what’s working well’ and then ‘here are the opportunities,’ it’s an easier pill.” -Jen Snyder [08:31]   “Being able to have these types of difficult conversations is what’s… number one, it’s going to drive your growth. It’s going to drive everybody’s growth.” -Tim Richards [25:44]   What You Will Learn: [01:12] Meet Tim [02:59] Tim’s thoughts on getting feedback from his team [08:47] Why it’s important to evaluate leader quality and core values  [10:57] Advice he would give a leader that’s received constructive feedback [14:17] How to share the results with the team [20:59] What it would be like to be at a place that didn’t feel the same [24:51] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Learn to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, speaks with Sean Cale, Director of Lean Manufacturing, Interiors, about LEAN manufacturing and building continuous improvement culture. Sean talks about how he developed his LEAN mindset and shares tips to get started with these processes. He also discusses how Lippert has developed continuous improvement culture and its impacts on the organization.   “Any edge you can put on yourself to be more competitive and not just the work environment, but more importantly, on a personal aspect, it’s the amount of impact you can make on the world.” -Sean Cale [11:19]   “It’s the impact of building a continuous improvement culture that doesn’t just help the business. It’s cyclical, isn’t it? It helps the people. The people help the business. The business helps the people.” -Edgar Cabello [24:07]   What You Will Learn: [02:06] Meet Sean [05:24] LEAN vs Continuous Improvement [08:34] What has helped Sean develop his LEAN mindset [11:39] The type of person best suited for his team [12:58] The creativity of manufacturing and how they’re having fun [16:34] What is JustFixIt [18:52] What is Kaizen and its impact at the organization [24:06] How Lippert’s vision helps build continuous improvement culture [28:45] What Sean is proud of with continuous improvement culture [32:48] Why companies struggle with LEAN processes [35:06] How to get started with LEAN   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Continuous Improvement and LEAN

On this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Kim Lisiak, Director of Leadership Development speaks with Laura Berger, Certified Executive Coach and Founder of the Berdéo Group, about going confidently in the direction of your dreams. Laura shares her journey about taking the unorthodox path and discusses how to make the choices in order to move forward in the direction of your dreams. Laura and Kim also discuss how this aligns with Lippert’s flagship program, The Dream Achiever Program.   “The how is going to reveal itself to you. It’s the action of taking that step, so taking that life leap and then letting it unfold.” -Laura Berger [10:29]   “We all have these dreams and they’re scary. It’s a lot easier if you have someone as an accountability buddy, a coach and a mirror along the way.” -Kim Lisiak [22:48]   What You Will Learn: [02:28] Meet Laura [05:15] Why she focus on going confidently in the direction of your dreams [08:55] What brought her to action [11:42] How a leader or team member define their core values [22:57] Laura’s journey to follow her dreams [29:47] Core values are a compass, your lighthouse [31:11] What was the dream Laura was seeking [32:58] Imagine if everyone found their sweet spot [36:25] Advice for team members to build confidence [39:39] Becoming a board member for CED of The Conference Board [43:33] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Learn more about the Dream Achiever program to start with achieving and going confidently with your dreams.   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com Visit Berdéo Group: https://www.berdeogroup.com/ Radical Sabbatical: A Hilarious Journey from a Stifling Rut to a Life Without Boundaries by Glen Tibaldeo and Laura Berger

Going Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams

With August being National Wellness Month, Sarah Rice, Corporate and Community Impact Specialist, speaks with Jaime Murphy, Director of Health and Well-Being, about health and wellness in this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast. Jaime talks about her role and how she came to be the first health and well-being director at Lippert. She shares some of the initiatives and programs she is providing to engage the team members and why now is the time to have this program.   “Lots of times we focus so much on what physical health looks like. We’ve all been sort of conditioned into that that healthy looks a certain way, and we need to change that, because healthy doesn’t always look a certain way.” -Jaime Murphy [14:13]   “When we care about our people, it does trickles down to our family life as well.” -Sarah Rice [20:05]   What You Will Learn: [01:28] About Jaime Murphy [03:34] How Jaime became the first Health and Wellness Director at Lippert [06:45] Ways she’s providing resources to team members [09:28] Why is now the time to have this program [15:32] Events and programs that engages team members [19:56] Creating a work life balance [22:46] What they are focused on this year [26:24] How to get men to understand why health and wellness is important   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Creating a Culture on Health and Well-Being

Dr. Amber Selking, VP of Leadership & Culture Development, and Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, share what listeners can expect during season seven of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast. This season will provide an extra dose of courage and inspiration to create action and bring leadership and culture to life.   “If we can tap into creating environments that are conducive to creating high performance, everything else gets better.” -Amber Selking [05:17]   “You and your people deserve great leadership, and when great leadership is in place, things happen. Business grows. People are in much more healthy frame of thinking and they go home happier.” -Edgar Cabello [24:39]   What You Will Learn: [01:00] What is the Academy and how is this podcast structured [04:54] Why they are seeing the growth and progression [06:56] What impact and effect Amber sees from the stage [08:38] The Cultural Playbook [10:56] Who to expect to appear on the podcast [12:13] Why you should listen to this podcast [26:03] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Commit to getting coached, to be encouraged and to be challenged to find the next layer of who you are and how you can be built to lead.   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Igniting the Built to Lead: Season Seven Preview

In the season finale of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Edgar Cabello, leadership development director, and Patrick Quigley, one of the leaders at the Plant 85 in Goshen. Patrick shares his approach to leading his team of engineers and how it all comes down to communication. He talks about how he learned how to talk and listen to engineers so he can set them up for success.   “Learning how to kind of listen to what the engineers are saying and not dismissing small comments, I think is a huge lesson learned.” -Patrick Quigley [09:27]   “If you’re going to come to work, like let’s have a good time doing it. Let’s build some strong relationships as a result of it, and let’s genuinely care for each other. And let’s care for our community, and let’s care for our customers and everybody that we come in contact with” -Edgar Cabello [??23:52]   What You Will Learn: [01:20] Meet Patrick Quigley [02:24] What is a slide-out system and a slim rack [03:04] What’s been happening at the engineer front at Lippert [05:29] The cultural nuance with leadership development and technical teams [14:59] The effort he encourages his team to put forth [21:32] His passion for leaderships [24:24] Final thoughts about leadership for listeners [26:10] Higher-Performance Leadership Training Challenge: Pay close attention to the people around you that speak a different language than you do.   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

To lead is to listen with Edgar Cabello and Patrick Quigley

In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Dr. Angie Sokol, director of the Lippert Academy for Leadership, speaks with Austin Hatch, a motivational speaker. Austin shares how two tragic plane crashes affected his life and his four years in The University of Michigan basketball program. He also shares the lessons he learned from Coach John Beilein’s leadership.   “If making a commitment is a common thing, but following through on a commitment, especially when there’s a change in circumstance is an uncommon thing, I believe following through on a commitment when there’s a change in circumstance is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. It’s doing a common thing in an uncommon way, and the result of doing the uncommon thing in an uncommon way is that we’re going to leave people and places a little better than we found them.” -Austin Hatch [21:04]   What You Will Learn: [00:59] Meet Austin Hatch [01:48] What it took Austin to be a great basketball player [03:42] The two tragic plane crashes that affected his life [06:19] What he went through after the second plane crash [09:27] How Coach Beilein showed his leadership [13:08] What it takes to overcome adversity through grit [15:15] The key components in the word GRIT [23:46] How his role on the team was to encourage, inspire and motivate others [24:33] How to contact Austin Hatch   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com Visit Austin Hatch’s website: https://austin-hatch.com Email Austin: austin@austin-hatch.com

GRIT and Gratitude: Leading through Adversity with Angie Sokol and Austin Hatch

In this episode of The Lippert Built to Lead Podcast, Bill Coughlin, Director of Leadership Development, speaks with Jeff Wysong, Vice President of Sales - Marine at Lippert Components. They talk about what they do as leaders to encourage their team members to bring out the best of themselves every day.   “I look at some of the greatest leaders, some of the greatest coaches, and I think there’s two things that always come to the top. 1. Their humility, right? And who they are. And the other thing that I see fascinating is they always want to serve others. It’s never about themselves. They’re super humble and it’s always about their team members and what they see in others.” -Bill Coughlin [09:48]   “If you want to grow, you have to grow your team so you can grow. Because if you leave and your department fails because you left because you left, you went on to the next level, what good did you do at yourself?” -Jeff Wysong [21:06]   What You Will Learn: [01:03] Meet Jeff Wysong [02:48] If there’s a difference between leadership and coaching [04:24] How to get the best out of your players [06:52] Ways to go after that excellence every day [10:48] The three C’s [14:02] Engaging online [18:15] Being a coach is asking the right questions [20:07] One of Jeff’s success stories [24:07] Have an intense focus and radical execution   Resources: Visit our website: https://www.lci1.com/academy Email us: academy@lci1.com

Getting your employees to deliver the best customer experience with Bill Coughlin and Jeff Wysong

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