What’s the Supervisor’s Role in High Performance Organizations?

What’s the Supervisor’s Role in High Performance Organizations?

Are your leaders giving their team what it needs to succeed? Today’s top corporations know that the value of their supervisors cannot be measured simply by their ability to “watch over” operations or staff members. There is a direct correlation between the performance...
Lean Isn’t Just for Manufacturing

Lean Isn’t Just for Manufacturing

The idea may have originated in the manufacturing industry, but every organization can benefit from thinking lean. A hospital executive explained how her hospital was looking to install an expensive new phone system to help eliminate long wait times. At the time, many...
Understanding Lean: Values and Principles

Understanding Lean: Values and Principles

Lean doesn’t mean doing without. It’s a mindset that allows you to continually streamline, build what you need and move on. In the 1930s, demand for variety in the automotive industry was growing. While new systems were introduced to decrease the cost per...
Engaged, Empowered Teams Achieve Their Goals

Engaged, Empowered Teams Achieve Their Goals

  Imagine if your employees were 100 percent engaged. Imagine a culture where the entire workforce used data to drive decisions.* Imagine if your workforce embraced a structured process that would sustain gains and foster continuous performance improvement.*...