How To Reduce Waste with More Productive Meetings
October 20, 2020Even before the pandemic, most American workers felt that they were being forced into wasteful or even counterproductive meetings...
Improvement Culture: 4 Signs of Trouble
October 14, 2020Modern leaders are fortunate to have a host of proven continuous improvement tools like DMAIC, Standard Work, kanban, Hoshin Kanri, and...
Top 10 Tips for Onboarding Remote Employees
October 6, 2020Many employers put off hiring over the summer, hoping that the COVID-19 situation would improve, and office life would return to normal...
Why Simplicity Was Essential for CI at a Nuclear Plant
September 30, 2020The principles of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies originated from manufacturing, but there’s no doubt that they have been...
15 Leadership Skills That Build Trust
August 4, 2020Last week we wrote about how distrust is a barrier to change. This post outlines some of the leadership skills and behavior known to...
The Connection Between Trust and a Culture of Change
July 29, 2020Humans are hard-wired for change. As soon as we are born, we start to grow, learn, and adapt to our environment. If that's the case, why is...
Change Management Tips for Leaders
July 21, 2020People react very positively to the concept of continuous improvement. They are a little less enthusiastic when it is framed as constant...
Study Finds that COVID-19 is Harming Workers' Mental Health
July 14, 2020If you find that you don't have the energy for activities that you once enjoyed or you are overreacting to small irritants, you are not...
10 Leadership Mistakes that Undermine Improvement Efforts
May 12, 2020Leaders that we speak with get very excited about the idea of creating an improvement engine within their organizations. Who doesn’t want a...