Learn & Practice Enterprise Agility thru a Lean Business Model 

Lean People Development Summit hosted by Lean Frontiers in Savannah, GA Lean People Development Summit, held this September 11-12, is designed for those companies who realize the importance of engaging people, creating a supportive culture and developing leaders at all levels. The Summit will draw professionals from HR, continuous improvement, and leadership to explore how Read More …

Should HR be Responsible for Developing Lean People?

The Deadliest Waste of All is the Waste of Talent and Creativity Recently, I have been talking with Lean Frontiers and discussing a few of their upcoming summits. In particular, the Lean People Development Summit  that was formerly named the Lean HR Summit. I have some upcoming podcasts, concerning HR and was trying to fill out some Read More …

Using 6s in your Data Management

I use a foundation of Training within Industry (people side) and the 6s approach (Data side) to implement an onboarding program. It is usually based on a 90 to 100-day cycle.  An outline of the process is depicted below. 5s is a systematic corrective action technique to clean up, get organized and make this the way Read More …

Training within Industry & Kata Stack

I will be adding a collection of Podcast Transcriptions through my Issuu channel called Stacks. Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find interesting. For your own publications, after you are done publishing them, Stacks are an easy way for readers to discover all Read More …

The Role of Job Instruction (TWI) in Developing Leaders

Joe:  The most popular of all TWI programs is Job Instructions. I think you take a little different bend on it rather than just thinking of it for the worker. You talk about how it plays a role of developing leaders, can you expand on that? Related Podcast and Transcription: Using The 7 Kata Conrad Soltero: Read More …

Applying the 7 KATA to Knowledge Work

Shingo Prize winning author, Conrad Soltero. Conrad won the Shingo Prize as the principal author of The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training. It was published in 2012 by Productivity Press. He works at the Texas Manufacturing and Assistance Center or TMAC as we’ll call it and is a Shingo prize examiner. For Read More …