Leadership

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...

What is the Role of Leadership in a Continuous Improvement Journey?

March 29, 2022

At the heart of Lean and continuous improvement is the development and growth of its people. Creating an environment where team members develop the skills to improve the job and also improve themselves. It is all about establishing a positive culture that revolve...

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 is a Smart SME?

January 18, 2022

Two things are going to dominate my conversation during 2022. For me they come hand in hand. The first and main theme is Smart SMEs (small & medium businesses). Personally I don’t like the term 'enterprises' but hey the acronym sticks!! In New...

Strategy and Tactics

November 23, 2021

Strategy and tactics - two critical elements of executing your plan and being a successful business. The great news is that one feeds into the other, they do and should relate to each other. The strategy is your true north - the vision you, your leadership team and possibly ...

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...

I am too busy (to improve!)

July 5, 2021

Hold on for a bit as this post is a combination of a few recent posts. Why am I doing this? Mainly because the message needs to be constantly reinforced about how crazy, short sighted this statement “I am too Busy” is in relation to continuous improvement in ...

What Is The Role Of A Leader When Starting A Lean Journey

June 21, 2021

Yep, let’s state the obvious - the role of a leader is crucial when starting a Lean journey. The trick is, asking ourselves, do we truly understand the role of leadership when it comes to Lean? In true form, I am going to try and keep this as simple as possible and b...

Creating An Awesome Workplace Culture

March 23, 2021

I have spoken a lot recently about staff engagement and it got me thinking. What is the difference to engagement and creating a positive workplace culture? So I have gone away to look at a few perspectives and this is my summary of thoughts. Before I went further into explor...