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Understanding Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Your Employees 0
- Engagement, Respect For People
- June 9, 2025
What motivates your employees? A key component of leadership is motivation and how different techniques can be used to motivate and engage employees. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation refer to the forces that drive behavior. Internal motivation arises from within, while external motivation comes from outside forces. Intrinsic motivation is when you engage in a behavior
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Lean Quote: Leaders Create a Platform for Spreading Ideas 0
- Lean Quote
- June 6, 2025
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 Tips Edition #316 (#3766 – #3780)0
- Lean Tips
- June 4, 2025
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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Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership: What’s the Difference?0
- Leadership
- June 2, 2025
Transactional vs. transformational leadership is not a question of a good vs. bad, right vs. wrong approach to leadership. While they are in fact opposite approaches to leadership, both offer advantages and are important styles of leadership to understand and apply in certain types of situations. Transactional leadership is a task-oriented style of leadership based
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Lean Quote: The Employer Generally Gets the Employees He Deserves 0
- Lean Quote
- May 30, 2025
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 #192 – May 2025 0
- Lean Roundup
- May 28, 2025
A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of May 2025. You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here. Psychological Safety: You get your say, not always your way. – Mark Graban explains that psychological safety doesn’t mean consensus. It doesn’t mean you’ll get your way every time.
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