You KNOW you’re not spending enough of your time how it counts. You WANT to get more of the right things done.
But you’re screaming inside your head: I just don’t have enough time. I’m already working long hours. I’m already behind on my tasks. I already have deliverables that are late.
Learn How to Get More of the Right Things Done in this Podcast Series
How do you assess your organizational culture? How do you know if Lean has truly moved beyond the surface level to permeate the culture? One step to peel back the onion is to explore what activities leaders do.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- What a Continuous Appearance Trap is and why it matters
- One leadership questions to assess Lean culture
- How Leader Standard Work can address gaps in where you want leaders to spend their time compared to where they actually spend their time
- How to learn 11 additional questions to self-assess to what extent you have an appearance or an actual improvement culture
How do you create the time to practice Lean thinking and working in your leadership role when it feels like there’s just not enough of it?
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- Why you it might be time for you to make hard choices
- Three steps you can take to create more time for to get more of the right things done
- When you feel stuck, like there’s just not a way out, these three additional steps may be what you need
Ready to bring Lean Leadership Developing to YOUR Team?
You want to spend time developing people. You want to spend time in proactive improvement. But, you just don’t have enough time. There’s just too much to do as it is. You just can’t get ahead - something always seems to happen. Let’s talk about how you can apply Improvement Kata or other systematic problem solving to this Leadership challenge.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- How Improvement Kata, A3, 8-Step Problem Solving and other systems can apply to your work as a leader
- The Four Steps and the Four Questions of the Improvement Kata
- How Obstacles are Approached Differently in Kata Thinking
- Different ways to approach the Leadership Problem: “I don’t have time”
It’s common for leaders to not have enough time for it all. Which means leaders have to make choices every day in how they will spend their time.
How do senior leaders mpact how effectively and how aligned those choices are made?
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- How leaders of leaders impact prioritization across their team
- Examples when senior leaders were making it harder for leaders to get more of the right things done
- Three specific areas you should self-assess to better understand how your decisions, words, and actions impact other leaders’ use of time
Ever wonder what kind of time management advice Lean thinkers might give? We explore one little sliver of that in this episode. A few weeks ago, I was really struggling to get those not so favorite parts done. I knew these were important tasks. Things that needed to get done for me to achieve my goals. I time blocked space on my calendar.
And then stared into space. And then looked for every distraction possible.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- 7 Types of techniques to help you follow-through on tasks you just don’t feel like doing
- Advice and examples from real people who use the techniques
- Range of ideas from mindset to activities to helpful apps
Ready to bring Lean Leadership Developing to YOUR Team?
Leader Standard Work tends to be that thing on our “Lean to-do lists” that stays just out of reach for so many. But leader standard work doesn’t have to be so elusive. Hear directly from 30-year Kaizen veteran Mike Wroblewski.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- What Leader Standard Work is - and is not
- How the purpose of Leader Standard Work escapes us at times
- The first place to start when practicing Leader Standard Work
- How to make sure you’re using a LSW tool that works
We were really proud of the leader standard work “program” we collectively built. And then . . . it completely flopped.
Hear this real-life practical example of how NOT to implement leader standard work. The best part is, the mistakes I’m sharing today were made by yours truly.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- What happened the first time I tried to lead my operations management team through leader standard work
- Key mishaps that went wrong along the way
- How you can learn from my mistakes as you integrate & improve your leader standard work
- Key next steps to take in your own practice
We started off 2021 talking about Intentional Leadership with Katie Anderson. But now we're starting the third month of the year. And it's about this time when we pause and realize that things might have gotten away from us.
So this is a perfect time to re-visit this episode.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- What the word intention really means
- How intention and goals are different - and the way we use them both together
- The different levels of intention setting
- Practical steps to put intentional leadership into action
Are you responsible for a team of managers? Are you ready to invest in your leadership team's abilities to lead people and deliver results?
I'd like to invite you to schedule a call to explore your vision, the current obstacles, and your potential next steps.
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📞 KPIs are lagging behind targets
📞 The culture and people leadership show red flags
📞 Improvements repeatedly slide back or stall (in the breadth or depth of adoption)
📞 The organization is facing change (new products, shifting customer demands, or competitive risks)
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Are you responsible for a team of managers? Are you ready to invest in your leadership team's abilities to lead people and deliver results?
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There’s a pandemic. Economic uncertainty. Political unrest.
Stress levels are high. People are anxious, tense, and struggling to adjust to new protocols.
People worry, “Will there be another lockdown?” “Am I safe working here?” “Will I have a job and full-time income two months from now?”
Amidst all the noise, it’s harder than ever to inspire people to do their best work.
That’s why leadership development is especially crucial right now.
That’s where I can help. Schedule a call.
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