What Makes Employees Actually Participate in Continuous Improvement Programs?
August 20, 2025Ever wonder why some Lean initiatives take off while others fizzle out? It often comes down to one critical factor: employee participation....
22 Training and Engagement Ideas for 2024
May 13, 2024Whether your company has ten employees or 10,000, coming up with an employee engagement strategy can be a challenge. It's easy to fall back...
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Kanban Boards: How They Work, Why They Stall, and How to Use Them Well
October 27, 2026In the years after World War II, Toyota executives noticed something about American grocery stores. Shelves weren't stocked on a...
How & Why to Introduce the CQI Proces to New Employees
August 27, 2021I've noticed something interesting in all articles and blogs I read about CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement). Most of the writing...
The Motivation-Hygiene Theory of Employee Engagement
April 20, 2021It is relatively common for people to use the terms "employee engagement" and "employee satisfaction" interchangeably. However, we have...
Continuous Improvement Goals Suggestions for 2023
June 22, 2023In 2020, we laid out some suggested continuous improvement resolutions. If the pandemic thwarted your plans and best intentions, give...
Top 10 Techniques for Encouraging Workplace Innovation
October 27, 2020Innovation in the workplace not only helps companies stay competitive and profitable, but they are also happier workplaces, with...
How to Build Kaizen into Employee Onboarding
September 17, 2020Much of the information published about establishing a culture of Kaizen is written for leaders who are introducing the concept to their...
What to Do About Disengaged Employees
July 7, 2020While definitions of “employee engagement” abound, they all come back to an employee’s emotional and psychological investment in their...
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