April 2016 - Page 2 of 2

Lean Quote: Action is the Cure for Inaction 0
- Lean Quote
- April 15, 2016
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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The Best Meeting of the Day, The Standup Meeting 0
- Lean in Practice
- April 13, 2016
Photo Courtesy of Visual Management Blog A stand-up meeting is a daily team meeting held to provide a status update to the team members. This meeting is also referred to as Obeya in Japanese, meaning “the big room”; in agile circles a “scrum” or huddle; and in the automotive industry “fast response”. The purpose of
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Lean Tips Edition #93 (1396-1410)0
- Lean Tips
- April 11, 2016
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Lean Quote: If You Want Engagement, You Must Engage 0
- Lean Quote
- April 8, 2016
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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5 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement 0
- Lean Management
- April 6, 2016
Employee engagement doesn’t come from a suggestion box. Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being. Engaging employees
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5 Reasons Why Suggestion Boxes Fail 0
- Lean in Practice
- April 4, 2016
Many organizations want to harness the ideas for improvement that naturally exist in their employees. Suggestion boxes are a common, but ineffective, way to engage employees in continuous improvement. They’re usually implemented with the best of intentions by managers who genuinely want to hear their employees’ improvement ideas, but the boxes fail to produce the
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