The lean journey to consistent near-perfect performance requires continuously aligning people to process, resulting in improved business performance. This  two-day workshop will teach attendees high performance team theory, share lessons learned and best practices and generate a rich learning environment to help any team improve their business performance—Heartbeat leaders first! 

What do lean best practice companies have in common? “Heartbeat” leaders whose performance is the leading indicator of the core business metrics: team engagement, cost, schedule, quality and safety. 

We call them different names like foreman, team leaders, planners, sales representatives and procurement specialists, but they’ve served the same key roles regardless of location—they get the job done! If they have a good day, everyone has a good day, and if they have a bad day then everyone has a bad day. 

This workshop will shine a spotlight on how to identify, train, prepare and develop Heartbeat leaders so their first day is a performance day not a “let’s see how this goes day.“

An overwhelming amount of organizational effort is spent measuring, managing and controlling the business process often described in cost, schedule, quality and safety. These are all lagging performance indicators. The true leading indicator of future business performance is engaged teams, who understand the rules of the game, and have focused on those leaders who are the Heartbeat of the business. 

BAUER has been manufacturing high pressure compressors for over 70 years. From our humble beginnings in the BAUER family home in Munich, Germany in 1946 to our current status as an industry leader, BAUER has earned its reputation as the world’s foremost innovative designer and manufacturer of high pressure compressors and purification systems. BAUER Compressors, Inc. of Norfolk, Virginia was founded in 1976. BAUER Norfolk has experienced continued growth in sales and has expanded to our present 115,000 square foot facility. BAUER Norfolk is headquarters for branch offices in Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit.  BAUER Norfolk has been implementing a Team Performance Improvement System since June 2016 and will benchmark their journey to accelerate others.

Joe Barto is the founder and president of TMG, Inc. and an expert in building and maintaining high performance teams including: leader identification, training and development, talent acquisition and retention systems, workforce risk analysis and lean six sigma. He has been facilitating dream team workshops since 2004.

Rob Hogan is the vice president of manufacturing for Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Va. Named to this position in 2015, he is responsible for manufacturing and manufacturing planning, supporting all shipbuilding programs.

Tony Bayat is the president of Bauer Compressors. Inc. He has held various positions in sales and marketing, product management, operations and senior management at United Technologies Corporation and GEA Inc.

Joseph Stark is the general manager and vice president of operations at Bauer Compressors Inc. He has over 35 years of experience in various arenas within the manufacturing sector. Having been a part of the BCI team for the last 19 years, Stark has helped develop BCI into the industry leader that it is today. He holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 

 7:30 a.m.  Registration/Coffee

 8:00 a.m.  Opening: Tony Bayat, President Bauer Compressors

 8:30 a.m.   Building a Dream Team Overview and Theory

11:30 a.m.   Lunch

12:30 p.m.  Heartbeat Leaders First

•  Current Leader – Current Work
•  Future Leader Identification, Training, and Development Systems

 4:30 p.m.   End of Day One

Thursday, June 2, 2016

 7:30 a.m.  Coffee

 8:00 a.m.  Keynote Speaker:  Rob Hogan, VP Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Newport News Shipbuilding

 9:00 a.m.  Joe Stark: Bauer Compressors TPI, Program & Benchmarking Tour 

11:30 a.m.  Lunch

12:30 p.m.  Benchmarking Discussion

 1:30 p.m.   Building Dream Teams Exercise

 3:00 p.m.   The Courage to Lead

 4:00 p.m.   I am a Lean Leader. My Team Plays to Win Award Ceremony

 4:30 p.m.   End of Workshop

Leadership teams, general managers, senior leadership and heartbeat leaders are encouraged to attend together to learn and create an improvement plan to take home to their business.

“The Heartbeat Leaders First workshop was by far one of the best I have gone too in my career. The notion of “Mission First, People Always” most definitely highlights that while a company’s profitability is the end goal it cannot be accomplished without a dedicated & trusting workforce that are led by strong leaders.  The concepts on how trust, respect, loyalty, and dedication help to build tomorrow’s leaders is a powerful takeaway that many in today’s workforce have forgotten and Mr. Barto does an excellent job of reminding us who is really responsible for a business’s success. A must attend for everyone from middle managers to senior executives!”
Executive Sales Director

“The Heartbeat Leaders First” workshop was an incredible leadership growth experience. I would highly recommend this training to anyone in a positon of senior leadership that is looking to help build an engaged, dependable and sustainable corporate leadership culture.”
VP Operations

 “Attending this workshop made me take a hard look at things going on around me and start thinking of some ways to make these things better. We have to do a better job of selecting leaders early and preparing them to be leaders.  We have to define the perfect day for our leaders and not interfere with it unnecessarily.The people I lead depend on me to give them a safe place to work and protect their livelihood.”
Supervisor

You can become an AME member during the registration process for $150 per year and obtain the discounted AME member rate for this event. Your membership will also entitle you to a registration discount for all future AME conferences, seminars, workshops and webinars for one year. Additionally, you will receive a subscription to the award winning Target magazine and much more. 

Payment or purchase order must be received by the AME office five days prior to the event start date. If no payment or PO number is received, you will be asked to pay with a credit card or check at the event before entry. 

Cancellation Policy: Enrollment fee less a $100 non-refundable registration charge will be refunded up to one week before the event. Substitutions may be made up to three days prior to the start of the workshop. 

Notes: This event may be cancelled by AME for any reason. AME is not responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants. By registering for this meeting, I hereby acknowledge and agree that AME or its agents may take photographs of me during events and may use those photographs for AME’s purposes, including but not limited to news and promotional purposes, without further compensation to me.