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28/2/2015

You get the best performance from people who are treated well...

So, now all you have to do is work out what it is to treat someone 'well'.

To understand what constitutes 'Treating someone well' in the workplace (so you facilitate their best performance; in-line with organisational outcome requirements), you can do worse than understand a whole lot more about the Human Factors than has been available in leadership and change training to date...

The world of organisational 'waste' elimination has been dealing with the 'husk' not the seed. Now we have the science ... Its time to separate the wheat from the chaff and deal with real root-cause!

Most 'change' and 'Leadership' is focused on the elimination of 'Wastes' from process (Lean etc.).
There is little focus on the 'waste' created by thinking patterns, conflicting beliefs and the resultant behaviours which often conflict with, and undermine, the efficiency and effectiveness of individuals, teams and departments. Ironically, this is shown time and again to be root-cause of many more organisational performance issues than any of the wastes addressed by the process-focused tools and techniques. The world of change has been focused on the tangible 80%, which generates only 20% of performance problems, rather than addressing the intangible issues which constitute 80% of all organisational performance wastes.

Problems implementing Lean ... what to do next?

19/2/2015

We were recently talking to a new client about the problems they had when trying to implement lean in the past. The major issues they highlighted were;

The negative reaction and resistance to change
The use of external consultants who brought a narrow, 'tools' based approach that wasn't clearly linked to their organisational strategy
The difficulty and ultimate failure to sustain results
Over-coming ingrained traditional thinking (at all levels in the organisation).

The question they posed to us was … Can you help and what would you do differently?

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Problems implementing Lean ... what to do next?

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