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Lean Quote: When The Vision Pulls You, You Don’t Have to Be Pushed0
- Lean Quote
- September 6, 2024
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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10 Strategies to Make a Positive Impact on Employee Engagement0
- Engagement
- September 4, 2024
Employees are the lifeblood of an organization. How they interact within your company and with your customers directly correlates to a company’s success. Therefore, when organizations improve employee engagement, their business thrives. Employee engagement, or the enthusiasm and dedication employees feel toward their employer, is crucial in creating a positive and productive work environment. When
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Labor Day: 10 Facts About Today’s American Worker0
- Other
- September 2, 2024
Happy Labor Day to all my American readers! For a lot of people, Labor Day means two things: a day off and the end of summer. However, Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women and acknowledges the value and dignity of work and its role in American
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Lean Quote: Set the Standard; Create and Live the Vision of How a Quality Leader Acts0
- Lean Quote
- August 30, 2024
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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Lean Roundup #183 – August 20240
- Lean Roundup
- August 28, 2024
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of August 2024. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Toyota’s Self-Criticism – Bob Emiliani explains that companies have difficulty replicating TPS because most leaders at all levels have the preconception “whatever is, is right,” which makes them resistant to
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Lean Tips Edition #304 (#3586 – #3600)0
- Lean Tips
- August 26, 2024
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: The Role of Work in Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing0
- Lean Quote
- August 23, 2024
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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How to Be a More Inclusive Leader0
- Leadership
- August 21, 2024
As the recent Gallup highlights many employees struggling with isolation and loneliness on the job. Overall, Gallup found 20% of working men and women saying they felt lonely “a lot of the day” at work the previous day. That number ticked slightly upward among workers younger than 35, with 22% of employees in that age
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Improve Engagement With One Meaningful Conversation Weekly0
- Engagement, Leadership
- August 19, 2024
Employees in the U.S. continue to feel detached from work, according to research firm Gallup’s most recent employee engagement survey. Only 33 percent of employees were engaged, while 16 percent of workers reported being actively disengaged according to the survey. Gallup presents an insightful solution. “A manager having one meaningful conversation per week with each
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