This particular video, The Coaching Kata is one of a 7-part video series with Brandon Brown where we touched upon some of the finer points of the Toyota Kata versus staying at the 20,000 foot level. Toyota Kata is documented in Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results. The Read More …
From Michael Gelb’s new book: Creativity On Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius: In recent years, the best thinking on leadership and organizational performance has shifted away from the idea of managing time to recognize the importance of managing energy. One of the pioneers of this shift, Professor James Clawson, of Read More …
Liz Guthridge is a results-oriented, award-winning change leadership coach and consultant with extensive communication experience. She specializes in supporting department leaders of organizations who are introducing complex new initiatives or making other changes that may confuse, disrupt or upset internal stakeholders. Connect Consulting is an independent and specialized management-consulting firm focused on clear and credible Read More …
I asked Patrick Waara of Xerox about swarming being used as an Agile response when someone’s in trouble in the middle of an iteration. I followed up with, “When does someone raise their hand or does the Scrum master determine that you need outside help and talks with the other Scrum masters? How do you Read More …
Dana Sednek Bowler specializes in eLearning, virtual meetings/collaboration, project management, analytics tools & strategies, and leadership facilitation. She puts these skills to work at Interaction Associates as the online learning manager. Related Podcast and Transcription: Working Online An excerpt from the podcast: Joe: Take the person who works online, all the time. Let’s say, out Read More …
David Veech is the founding member of the Institute for Lean Systems and serves as its Executive Director. In this Podcast/Transcription: The Fun Side of Standard Work, I asked him about role players. Joe: So you are saying that when you are building the team, you really do have to identify maybe even the roles Read More …