Team Engagement

Creating a Learning Environment

April 20, 2022

Making mistakes is awesome, Learning is even better! Parents around the world understand how important it is for their children to learn through making mistakes. We all did it learning to walk, understand calculus (I’m still struggling with this) or driving! No...

Smart Business….. Measure for Success, Your Success

March 14, 2022

This really is an extension of the previous blog, mainly because it is so important to understand how and what to measure as part of a business improvement journey. Many businesses get it wrong, very wrong and use measures, data, information as a big stick, if you don�...

How to Measure the Performance of your Business

February 21, 2022

AKA What makes a Smart SME Episode 3.A top performing sports team measures its performance. In the elite world this goes to the individual performance measures, the errors made by the team, what part of the game was better or worse, the list literally goes on. If this ...

What Makes A Smart SME….. Episode 2

February 4, 2022

In the first part of this discussion, I touched on a few things that in my opinion help create the environment of a Smart SME. Why is this so important to all of us? Simply, SMEs (Small and Medium sized Businesses) make up the lion's share of the economy. Just drive ar...

What is Lean Visual Management?

December 13, 2021

Visual Management in the workplace. This is a term used many, many times during a Lean journey. It is used so much that it can also become white noise, a cliche term. So if it is used a lot, what does it actually mean? What does it look like? The answer, like man...

Is Lego Serious Play a Team Building Activity?

August 31, 2021

Before writing this blog, my immediate answer to that question was NO. LEGO Serious Play (LSP) is so much more powerful than just having fun together as a team, playing crazy games and having a few drinks at the local pub. My ‘Why’ is all about being crazily passio...

What is 'Going to the Gemba' ?

July 20, 2021

I have mentioned it a lot of times, but what the hell does it mean? What am I talking about? The ‘Gemba’. This is a term used widely in the Lean world and it is one of the cornerstones to a successful lean journey for a business. If it is that important...

How do I measure the success of a Lean Journey?

May 20, 2021

On the surface this question has a simple answer - have you improved your throughput / turnover in your business for the same amount of time and effort? That is the measurement that indicates better productivity and better business performance. Many experts will be get...

What can Lego® Serious Play® be used for?

May 7, 2021

Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) enables individuals and teams to explore topics deeper and faster than many other methodologies. I went into some of the theory of how LSP works in a previous blog post. So we know it works and why. But what type of scenarios or situat...

How Does LEGO Serious Play Work?

April 20, 2021

The simple answer to this question is easy. The process of a basic LEGO Serious Play (LSP) workshop follows the same pattern. A group is first asked an open ended question by a trained facilitator. Then each person responds by building a model that represents th...