Comments on: Creating Employee Engagement, Part 3 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/ on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:25:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ron Pereira http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Ron Pereira Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:07:32 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/#comment-558 Someone needs to take the black markers away from the folks that created that VSM and get them some pencils! ;-) Someone needs to take the black markers away from the folks that created that VSM and get them some pencils! ;-)

]]> By: Mark Welch http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Mark Welch Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:24:45 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/#comment-557 Your maint point about building the process improvement changes into the flow of the work is absolutely true. I've noticed in our hospital that our best sustained lean improvements have come from physical changes that people have but no choice to work within them. An example of this is the creation of a combined admission/discharge room in our mental health unit. With admissions and discharges consolidated and removed from the nurses station we have improved flow and reduced cycle times tremendously. We have much more difficulty with administrative processes, precisely for the reasons you mentioned in your post, Jamie. Your maint point about building the process improvement changes into the flow of the work is absolutely true. I’ve noticed in our hospital that our best sustained lean improvements have come from physical changes that people have but no choice to work within them. An example of this is the creation of a combined admission/discharge room in our mental health unit. With admissions and discharges consolidated and removed from the nurses station we have improved flow and reduced cycle times tremendously. We have much more difficulty with administrative processes, precisely for the reasons you mentioned in your post, Jamie.

]]> By: Glenn Whitfield http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Glenn Whitfield Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:28:11 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/03/creating-employee-engagement-part-3/#comment-556 Jamie, Great points - and it shows the challenge when implementing Lean thinking. For sustained success and true employee engagement, it must become part of the "things" that you do, instead of another "thing" to do. When employees say they are waiting for the next kaizen event, it is still another "thing" that they do. Glenn Jamie,

Great points – and it shows the challenge when implementing Lean thinking. For sustained success and true employee engagement, it must become part of the “things” that you do, instead of another “thing” to do. When employees say they are waiting for the next kaizen event, it is still another “thing” that they do.

Glenn

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