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Leadership

Voluntary versus Directed Activity

07.01.2010

In our next video in the Cultural Transformation Series, we discuss a solid leading indicator of your cultural impact. You want to see people picking up the tools and methods and using them on their own. You want to see voluntary involvement. Directed involvement is also a part of lean, but the ratio between voluntary [...]

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A Call to Action

06.14.2010

Don’t generate news; do something newsworthy.
Don’t just post on facebook your distaste of political decisions; get involved, go vote, or run for office.
Don’t complain at the water cooler; have the courage to have difficult conversations with the right people.
Don’t sulk or carry guilt; go apologize.
Don’t just wish you were somewhere else; start moving.
Don’t just sit [...]

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RIP: John Wooden

06.07.2010

It was sad to hear of the passing of the legend John Wooden. Of course this can never be validated, but he may be the best coach, of any sport, ever. I don’t really follow basketball, and if I did I would be a Big 10 fan, so this is by no means a biased [...]

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The Importance of Language

05.24.2010

This is the next video in the Cultural Transformation Series. The language you choose to use, and the meaning it conveys, can have a great impact on your culture when done consistently. I explain that point in this video, The Importance of Language.

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The Power of 1

04.22.2010

Last week I was visiting a very large operation in Costa Rica. As the strategy was being discussed, I noticed that we were going to review 5S efforts later in my visit. I started questioning this line of thought, because they had so many things going on in their organization and it was so large, [...]

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Integrity

03.29.2010

Some people believe integrity is something you are born with, or not. I don’t believe that, simply because I’ve seen people completely change their behaviors. In this next video of the Cultural Transformation Video Series, we explore the role integrity plays in leading culture change.

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Creating Employee Engagement, Part 4

03.08.2010

This is the final part of a 4 part series on Creating Employee Engagement. You can first read Parts 1, 2, and 3.
Skills Required for Engagement
Skill gaps to create engagement exist both in employees and managers, although most transformation efforts tend to focus on only one or the other group.
Employees need to be able to [...]

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Creating Employee Engagement, Part 3

03.05.2010

This is part 3 on employee engagement. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
The Development of Systems to Support Engagement
When conducting an assessment, one of the most revealing questions that I seem to ask is “if you have found waste or an opportunity to improve, what do you do with it?” I usually get answers ranging [...]

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Creating Employee Engagement, Part 2

03.03.2010

This is Part 2, you can read Part 1 on Creating Employee Engagement.
The Role of Culture in Engagement
Culture is the set of shared assumptions, beliefs, and principles that a group or organization holds. It is best measured or observed by the shared behaviors or habits that are exhibited.
A certain set of beliefs and behaviors need [...]

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Creating Employee Engagement, Part 1

03.01.2010

Learning happens in the classroom. Coaching happens through a formal mentor often away from our work. At least that’s what we’ve been lead to believe.  
But that view has many limitations.
As it applies to learning, learning is never internalized in the classroom. There is a difference between information, which is in the head, and knowledge, which [...]

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