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Hi LinkedIn family!

Baby #2 is either here, or nearly here!
We will do our best to post a photo with all the usual stats once they arrive ☺️.

But in any case, Stacey will be taking some time off from now until mid-March (give or take).

You're always welcome to contact her via text, phone call or email, but please just be patient with her in terms of response time!

Stacey will be pretty quiet on LInkedIn both personally and through EVelop LLC, but she hopes you don't forget about her, or her work at EVelop LLC!

Sending you all our best - and see you in spring 2025!

Please join us in congratulating this year's Crain's Cleveland 40 under 40!

We are so honored to live in a community with such amazing, dedicated, and passionate leaders and professionals!

For the full list, check out the article: https://loom.ly/RptPjw8

Wishing you and yours a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving - and hopefully a long weekend too!

Everyone feels stressed at times - but we bet you've realized that it doesn't always manifest in the same way.

This article talks about 7 different stress personalities.

It might help you see a colleague, direct report, boss, or friend or family member in a new light - and provide support in a way that will work for them.

Do any of these sound familiar?
1. The Internal Timekeeper
2. The Striver
3. The Pleaser
4. The Sabertooth
5. The Inner Con Artist
6. The Critical Judge
7. The Worrier

Article: https://loom.ly/M9tOZdY

Check out EVelop's November newsletter!

https://loom.ly/HAp-AbY

Giving feedback is part of being a leader - and a team member.

There are plenty of strategies, frameworks and recommendations out there around giving feedback.

Our team found this article with 3 interesting ideas, and wanted to get your... FEEDBACK... on them!
(Go ahead and groan - we know it was a bad pun!)

1. Keep your emotions out of it
2. Let employees influence how / how often they get feedback
3. Be open to different messengers

Now we definitely agree with #1 - strong emotions totally change the atmosphere! #2 is a bit of tricky one when it comes to sustainability - and meeting corporate processes if you're at a big company. #3 seems like it could be an abdication of duty as a leader.

What do YOU think?

https://loom.ly/5vh-iS4

Please join us in welcoming Piston Automotive to greater Cleveland!

"Piston Automotive designs, engineers, assembles and manufactures a wide variety of automotive parts and systems. The company was founded in 1995 by industry magnate and former NBA champion Vinnie Johnson."

We were so excited to learn that Piston Automotive is one of the largest private minority-owned automotive suppliers in North America! They supply powertrain systems, front-end cooling systems, chassis systems, battery packs and interior systems.

"The new operation in Avon will generate a total capital investment of almost $1.3 million and create 79 new jobs."

We're excited to have you join our region!

https://loom.ly/o6BPA0I

We love manufacturing! We also love engineering, and all the aspects and variants of STEM.

But we've learned first-hand that a lot of 4-year degree programs in engineering spend zero (or nearly zero) time teaching students about manufacturing, manufacturability, industrial operations, supply chain, or all the essential components that take an engineering drawing into reality.

That's why we are so excited to read about the new Engineering Technology degree program through OSU's Marion campus. It sounds like the perfect blend of theory and practice, with strong industry partnerships to ensure continued relevance in the curriculum - and a wide-open talent pipeline for graduates!

We encourage you to check out the article - and share your thoughts!
https://loom.ly/gIYJ1qY

Please join us in celebrating these amazing individuals!

Congratulations to the Crains Cleveland 2024 class of Notable Black Leaders!

These leaders range from "C-suite executives and investors handling multimillion-dollar budgets and billion-dollar deals, advisers helping our neighbors pursue higher education and secure social services, attorneys leading law firms and advocates leading the way toward change. From magnates to mentors, they’re working to enrich their companies, our communities and our city."

For a full listing of winners and their bios, check out the link!

https://loom.ly/nB92phs

We're betting you've heard of Lean Manufacturing, but did you know that it's a really broad topic?

It covers things like Kaizen events, 5S, poka yoke and other familiar favorites, but it can also include some very foundational - but incredibly useful - tools like a Gemba walk.

A Gemba walk is just a fancy term for going where the work is. Not putting post-it notes on a whiteboard in a conference room and making assumptions in a Lean event. Actually getting out there, shadowing operators across every shift for that particular process, looking upstream and downstream, and tracking data on what IS.

One of the other great tools that can get overlooked is SMED - single minute exchange of dies - because it sounds like it would only work for, you know... tool & die shops. WRONG!

It's a thought process and perspective that can be applied in all types of manufacturing, even high mix, low volume environments. The main steps are:

- Look at all the steps that have to happen from initializing a changeover, to finishing a complete run of a particular product, through the changeover to a different product
- Identify steps that can be done in PARALLEL with a production run - thus reducing the time that valuable manufacturing capacity is off-line
- Identify ways to streamline steps that still need to done while the machine is off-line

Sometimes you may need to develop additional tooling or fixturing, storage solutions, or other components - and it's perfectly OK to pilot your changes with 3D-printed, cardboard, wood or other prototypes. It's all about making rapid, iterative improvement!

Check out the article for more great examples of how to leverage SMED methodologies in unconventional ways!

We would love to hear your own stories about how you've applied Lean!

https://loom.ly/Xo4VkCw