How do you start the day at your organization? Do employes come to work and wonder what to do? Are they efficient because they know exactly what needs to be accomplished today? They will if you start your day with morning huddles. Starting the day with a morning huddle does wonders for the success of …
COVID-19 has brought about a change in every area of business. I bet leading employees working from home every day didn’t cross your mind two years ago. Yet, here we are. Products and processes that were fine six months ago won’t cut it today. There is a disruption in all parts of businesses. Getting intrapreneurs …
We’ve all heard the saying a failure to plan on your part does not create an emergency on my part. Isn’t that what often leads to stress? The actions of others lead to a compressed lead time for some deliverables you have to deal with. Great project plans help eliminate the situation, but sometimes you …
Given the impact to supply chain performance that many manufacturers have felt do to the pandemic, it’s become important to speed up the use of technology. Implementing more technology as part of Industry 4.0 will allow you to take on larger improvement activities. Here are some tips you can implement to digitize your lean efforts. …
Two weeks ago we talked about the eight wastes and using a waste walk to identify them in your organization. As a review, your rapid improvement team members go on a waste walk, capture the wastes they observe, and placed them on a DOWNTIME chart. Then they brainstorm solutions to eliminate the waste. A great …
When you lead people, there a million opportunities to get distracted. Phone calls, responding to e-mail. Reading reports or deliverables from your employees. People asking questions or complaining to you. These tasks take a toll on staying focused on your work. Tip 1- Stay out of e-mail jail A natural tendency is to respond to …
As the pandemic has wreaked havoc within industries across the globe, the pressure is on for manufacturers to implement automated solutions to keep their workers safe. This is great, but “lights out” factories with no human workers have not gone so well. The keyword in cobots is collaborative. Watch a cool video here: A …
Last week we talked about the eight wastes and using a waste walk to identify them in your organization. As a review, your rapid improvement team members go on a waste walk, capture the wastes they observe, and placed them on a DOWNTIME chart. Then they brainstormed solutions to eliminate the waste. The next step …
If you think you don’t have a company culture than that is your culture. You haven’t made a conscious decision to develop one. The problem is, with many employees working from home; they need something they can identify with. They need a True North to guide their activities, decision making and provide something bigger they …
The internet has changed how we receive and consume information. As a leader, how many e-mails do you receive a day? How much information do you receive daily? Every minute of the day 47 million videos are being viewed on YouTube. There are 480,000 tweets and 4.2 million google searches being conducted every minute. Finally, …