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Using Kaizen for Employee Engagement and Improvement

QAspire

Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. It all sounds good on the surface, but the reality is that very few companies fully embrace kaizen. But, in properly executed kaizen, the frontlines are given control within clearly defined boundaries that leadership themselves set.

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

I’m not talking about panic-driven change, rather well though out process improvements and innovation. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. It’s a leadership development opportunity - really! It’s a required course in your leadership curriculum. Just be smart about it.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Hansei and 6 Pitfalls to Avoid in Reflective Exercises

QAspire

Here are some common pitfalls that should be avoided in any form of reflective exercise: No Actions, No Results: In many other methodologies and cultures, Hansei is termed differently, like retrospectives in Scrum and After Action Reviews in American Culture (developed by US Army). Photograph By: Tanmay Vora.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better.