The Lean Coach

24/01/2023

More critical for the long-term, the Lean Daily Management System helps us build a set of habits, so that lean thinking and practices become second nature. These include setting standards and making plans, making the actual status visible, going to see, checking plan versus actual, communicating, creating alignment across the organisation, solving problems, coaching and developing people, and so forth.
Without these habits, many organisations find it challenging to sustain the gains of their improvement activities. Developing these habits help us to deliver results using continuous improvement methods and tools sustainably. The Lean Daily Management System gives us the structure and routine to practice and improve daily.

Moreover, use the opportunity to engage, empower, inspire, and develop your team.

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12/01/2023

It is the coach’s responsibility to make sure the learner succeeds, but the improver has to develop a positive emotion (usually along the way)
The majority of learners will be hesitant and think learning is painful. Often they will wait and see - that is a human condition
That is why coaching is so important

It is easier to keep people motivated about achieving things that are perceived as challenging, though not impossible, that we want to achieve (the target condition that has meaning to us).

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26/02/2015

The Need For Standard Work

Take a look at the diagram above.  It’s a no brainer if our process is out of control i.e. not standardised, has high levels of variance and the results from this process are poor, then we are in a bad place and unlikely to be in business for very long.  This is represented by the lower left quadrant.
Clearly every business strives ...

13/02/2015

Value Stream Mapping: Thou Shall Go To The Gemba

The purpose of value stream mapping is to understand and communicate how an organisation operates and how a process works throughout theentire value stream. Or put more simply it is a way of looking at how the work gets done. With this in mind I am often amazed at how comfortable site leaders are, when describing how a process works, with relying o...

29/01/2015

The Importance of Vision: A Lesson From History

In many of my teachings on leadership I have asked people to name a leader they admire.  The most common answers include Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King.
One student recently put forward Queen Victoria alongside a compelling argument to justify their choice.
Below I have tried to capture the key point...

29/01/2015

I've been looking at utilising social media to get myself 'out there'

29/01/2015

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