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Coach’s Corner: How To Put People First Using Lean Practices
Not only will putting people first lead to better performance, but it will also make your organization a more attractive employer. People want good jobs doing meaningful work where they can thrive, which you can help them achieve when you deliberately put people first using lean practices with supportive leadership behaviors.
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Creating the Conditions for Optimal Learning in the Pursuit of Mastery: Lessons from Hiking
Enabling people to develop their skills and capabilities is essential for high performance in organizations. In the short and long term, it can enable people to perform their best through their pursuit of Mastery…. To optimize learning and growth in the pursuit of Mastery, we need to create the conditions for people to be stretched…
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Lessons on Respect from a Pandemic
I think treating people with Respect is the key to effective leadership, and frankly, it is just the right way to treat people. Respect is foundational to lean… Respect is Providing the Conditions to Discuss Needs, so we can Understand Together
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Enabling People to Strive to Fulfill Their Full Potential Through Lean in Practice
Organizations should strive to create the conditions for people to meet their full potential. For one, it is the right thing to do – it is the respectful way to treat people. And for any work that requires creativity, which is a significant percentage of the work being done, you get better performance from people…
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How to Show Respect During a Pandemic
If the foundation of showing respect for people is understanding their current situation and readiness for growth, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs offers a framework that can help you assess it… Lean thinking is a system designed to support people who have had their basic and psychological needs met and can focus on their self-fulfillment needs……
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Leading with Respect by Enabling People to Grow and Be Personally Satisfied with Better Performance Through Lean Thinking
Lean is a system that develops people while doing and improving the work. Continuous improvement efforts enable people to be creative while they are growing and developing. Lean product and process development it is a system designed to make creative people more productive while effectively working together. People and products are simultaneously developed with people…
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Why Meaningful Improvement Requires a “Growth Mindset”
If we want to create enabling bureaucracies (what a lean organization really is), we need to have growth mindsets with a willingness to learn. It isn’t surprising that mindset is in the foundation of the lean transformation model house. It is the foundational stability needed to enable us to meet our organizational objectives. Proceeding without…
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Change Management: Is it Necessary?
For the organization and all individuals; the product of the dissatisfaction of the current situation, vision for what is possible, and first steps towards that vision has to be greater than the resistance to change. If any one of these aspects – dissatisfaction, vision, or first steps – does not exist, you are missing a…
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The Problems Inherent in Change – and What You Can Do about Them
What causes the inherent problems of resistance to change, management losing control, and political behavior to shape the power dynamics within the organization? Each of these problems is a response to uncertainty in the organization. Individuals resist change to remove the uncertainty of the unknown future. The formal management system seeks to maintain control to…