Coaching Leaders for Success
For the past several months I have been  focused on completing two related projects. Both...
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Category: Coaching
Blended Learning: A Model for Creating Lean Culture
Lean implementation requires a change in culture. The change is to create the habits of continuous...
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Coaching and Culture Change: The Missing Link
If you go through my Team Leadership (Team Kata) course you will quickly be confronted with the strong suggestion that every manager and every team have a coach to lead them through the steps of lean implementation and to provide feedback to the leader and team. But, you ask, where are we going to get all these coaches? Here is a clear answer.
Read MoreNew Year’s Wishes – To Be Challenged – Not “Happy”!
I hope you all had a great Christmas, or any Holiday you celebrate. And, I hope you are ready for a wonderful New Year. Not a “happy” New Year, but a New Year filled with great challenges. More about that in a...
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Toyota Kata, Team Kata, and Levels of Complexity
Implementing lean management, or any other change in the culture of organizations, requires a zoom lens to see the different levels of complexity required. Toyota Kata, lean tools, and other methods operate at some focal lengths and not at others. The well informed manager will have the ability to understand complexity and to use simple methods when appropriate. If you are photographer with only a 300mm lens you will miss a lot of great photos.
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