Tweddle Continuous Improvement

Excellent point, that looks like a job aid for Coaching Manager. What do you think?

Yes and for Continuous Improvement as well!

Fast Cap CI idea

Awesome! Another fantastic FastCap video!

Improvement doesn't just happen.  It takes time, and in the pressure pot of our day to day activities, there is never enough time to improve our situation. The structure of Lean permits and requires time be set aside for improvement. If managers do not definitively provide time for the task of improvement, then people will know that they are not serious about making improvement a formal part of the work.

Excellent point!

Cool and inspiring video about Lean Principles.

Great choice Joe! Thank you so much for sharing it!

Great article on Muda, Muri & Mura - 7 wastes, Unevenness & Overburdened. I'm going to add this to our CI Training.

"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - Willa Foster

Cool video on how to apply lean ideas to order picking.

Developing people means challenging people. But just issuing challenges isn't enough. You must also teach a systematic, common means of creating solutions and meeting those challenges.

Creating a positive workplace is critical to a company's success. Most people who have experience working in an office have seen firsthand the difference between one that has a positive environment and one that doesn't. A positive work environment has a better productivity rate, happier workers overall, better morale, and a lower turnover rate.

Cool video on Continuous Improvement

Pay attention to the critical benefit here: everyone has agreed that email is NOT to be used for urgent or complex issues. This agreement really is significant, because it unshackles people from their BlackBerries during meetings, or product development work, or strategic planning. Or their kids' soccer games. Or dinner. Or sex. Which means that there's now a fighting chance to have some uninterrupted time to, you know, think.

A client and fellow lean learner today shared a cool extension of the Toyota Kata model for establishing target conditions

Visual control in the Shipping Dept.

A work order control board.

Who has the Shift Summary Report?

The waste of searching reduced.

Spiral Binding in POD