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Increase Your Competency By Practicing Kaizen 0
- kaizen
- March 21, 2018
A strong organization offers career protection in today’s economic marketplace. If it’s financially successful, your paycheck is more secure. If it keeps getting better and better in the way it does business, your future usually gets brighter. But the organization can’t improve unless its people do, whether it’s in operational savvy, sales ability, computer expertise
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Don’t Point Fingers, Focus on Problem Solving 0
- Problem Solving
- March 19, 2018
Problems are the natural offspring of change, so you’ll see plenty of them in the years to come. Build a name for yourself as a problem solver, and you’ll be a valuable person to have around. Organizations need people who can take care of problems, not merely point them out. Too many employees get this
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Lean Quote: A Handful of Skill is Better Than Bagful of Gold 0
- Lean Quote
- March 16, 2018
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 Four Rules of Lean Transformation 0
- Change Management
- March 14, 2018
People are often quite uncomfortable with change, for all sorts of understandable reasons. This can lead them to resist it and oppose it. This is why it’s important to understand how people are feeling as change proceeds, so that you can guide them through it and so that – in the end – they can
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Teaching and Coaching the Mental Game 0
- Leadership
- March 12, 2018
As many of you know I coach youth ice hockey and a couple of weeks ago I attended a conference for my Level 4 USA Hockey Coaching Certification. This conference was held over 3 days and comprised of about 16 speakers around youth sports, athletics, and ice hockey. The topics ranged from nutrition and safety
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Lean Quote: Culture Changes When the Organization is Transformed 0
- Lean Quote
- March 9, 2018
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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