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Equiping Your People.
Elevating Your Performance.
Do You Recognize Team Members and Show Them Appreciation?
When people feel valued and respected they tend to perform better. Creating an environment in our organization that practices rewards and recognition goes a long way to improving engagement and morale. When employees feel appreciated they function better, care more...
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...
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,...
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...
Japan Study Trip: Days 5-7
My favorite scenic part of the trip was our bus ride from Nagoya through the Central Alps (mountains) to Nagano, and then to Takasaki. The Japanese Alps have been used as a place of ascetic practice for Buddhists monks since ancient times. These towering ranges...
Japan Study Trip: Day 4
As I write to you this morning, I am enjoying my view of the Central Alps from the balcony in this traditional Japanese Ryokan. Our stay here has been very special and relaxing. The Ryokan has an Onsen, or hot spring, for its guest to enjoy as well. We travelled here...
Japan Study Trip: Days 1-3
In 2019, I began conversations with Katie Anderson about her Japan Study Trip 2020. I was locked in for the trip and excited for the experience. Little did we know, Covid had other plans. The trip in 2020 was cancelled as was the trips for the next few years. However,...
Are Your Leaders Spending Time Coaching and Developing Others?
"A good coach always coaches to a leaders potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly." ~Andy Stanley If you’ve ever been coached, or acted as a coach, you know that there’s lots of...
Are you Analyzing Process Steps and/or are you Conducting Value Stream Mapping Analysis?
Growing up in West Michigan provided me with a landscape that was dotted with fields, farms, and silos. Silos were a necessity for the farms in my area. They provided a simple way for the farmer to keep crops and feed dry. Separation was a must and the silo provided a...
Facilitate Change in Your Organization Today!
How do we best facilitate change within our organizations? Better yet, how do we initiate the right kind of change today? The answer is simple: Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese word made up of two distinct characters: One character means 'change' while the other...
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