• How to Motivate Employees to Adopt Safety-Consciousness in the Workplace

    How to Motivate Employees to Adopt Safety-Consciousness in the Workplace0

    Ensuring a workplace’s safety is also essential for productivity. However, any measure you put in place is useless without your employees’ support. Fortunately, there are several ways to encourage their cooperation. 1. Establish safety goals You first need to set the company’s safety goals before setting any programs into action. There’s also a need to

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  • Lean Tips #145 (#2386-#2400)

    Lean Tips #145 (#2386-#2400)0

    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: Nine Reasons Why Leaders Should Be Doing Gemba Walks

    Lean Quote: Nine Reasons Why Leaders Should Be Doing Gemba Walks0

    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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  • Using Daily Management to Engage Employees in the Gemba

    Using Daily Management to Engage Employees in the Gemba0

    Learn more about NE Lean Conference below In today’s active world we are hearing more about getting employees within the organization engaged at work. This is not only for the leadership team, but also for the hourly workforce. For the sake of this discussion let’s define engaged employees as those that work with passion and

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  • 5 Lessons in Leadership Effectiveness from Christopher Columbus

    5 Lessons in Leadership Effectiveness from Christopher Columbus0

    The Columbus Day is celebrated every year to honor the man who led the expedition that discovered the Americas.  Where would we be without his efforts? Christopher Columbus demonstrated several remarkable traits that are just as applicable today as lessons in business and leadership effectiveness as they were more than five centuries ago. Here are

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  • Lean Quote: Confidence is the Backbone of True Humility

    Lean Quote: Confidence is the Backbone of True Humility0

    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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