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Equiping Your People.
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Do You Have a Way to Share Your Wins With Other Areas?
Growing up, most of us were told never to boast. It’s not easy to be stuck next to the person that continually brags about their accomplishments, either professionally or personally. However, when it comes to continuous improvement, we want employees to share and...
3 Hacks Change Agents Use To Create Positive Team Transformation
So many leaders are stuck working "IN" the business and don't make time to work "ON" the business. This can be a BIG problem. There are many ways to support positive transformation, however, I am going to focus on the three that take your leadership team outside their...
Are You Celebrating Improvements Daily?
We live in a society that seems to have a day for everything: Measure your feet day, national handwriting day, national pie day, national rhubarb pie day, and even kiss a shark week. Yes, kiss a shark week is real! We have all these days on top of birthdays,...
Are You Implementing Small, Simple Improvements Daily?
My friend and colleague, Craig Tedrow, was planning to spend a week with his family in Florida and during a recent discussion, he mentioned that he tried on his swimsuit before packing it in his luggage and there was a problem. It wasn’t pretty. He tried to pretend it...
Are You Asking for Simple Improvements Daily?
I have always been fascinated by the compound effect. I love the quirky examples out there that show how saving 'x' amount of dollars per month, starting at age 18, will allow someone to pay cash for a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home by the age of 30. These examples intrigue...
Do You Already Know the Next Area You Are Going to Improve?
When your company is faced with the need for a large, culture changing transformation, the worst thing you can do is to try to change everything at once. Your responsibility as a lean leader is to make the transition as quickly as you can while ensuring business...
Do You Have a Plan to Sustain and Replicate Learnings to Other Areas?
We had success transforming a high-value target area in our corporation! People can see the changes and improvements, and now, they want a piece of it. They like what they hear from the workers in the redesigned space. Now what? Where do we go from here? Who do we...
Have You Chosen One High Value Target Area to Experiment With?
A friend and his wife spent a lot of time in the Tampa, Florida area. They were looking at new communities for their father to move into. Their father needed somewhere warm year-round with less maintenance and upkeep. Looking at empty fields with lots for new homes...
Do the Majority of People Control and Not Allow “Scope Creep”?
When I think of scope creep I immediately think of building a house. I know of no other example that illustrates scope creep better than what my wife and I went through 24 years ago. I know we were not alone when dealing with this unavoidable aspect of building our...
How Do You Know You Are Getting Better?
How do you know you are improving if you don't know where you started? Let's imagine I was feeling cold and I wanted it to be warmer in the office. After about an hour, how would we know its getting warmer? I could say I "feel" like its warmer. But is it really? In...
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