Leadership - Lean Consulting

Making Mistakes

By Cameron Turner
In Improvement, Innovation, Leadership

Sir Robinson says “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”.

Risk & Compliance are Anti-Improvement

Lean – It Doesn’t Work

By Jiezel Richards
In Behaviour, Change Management, Continuous Improvement, Culture, Improvement, Leadership, Lean, Lean Consulting, Lean Culture, Lean Improvements, Lean Thinking, Management, Operational Management

7 Key Points in Leading a Project

By Ben Hart
In Employee Engagement, Food for thought, Leadership, Management, Uncategorised

7 Things you need to know in leading a project Roll with the punches The first issue in managing a successful project is that you need to be willing to roll with the punches, often in project management or leadership we have a cognitive bias, that little voice in the...

How close are your Employee Engagement and Customer Experience Strategies?

The parallel between Employee Engagement and Customer Experience Strategies is closer than you may think. Double acts have long been part of many peoples lives, from Morecambe & Wise, Penn & Teller or even Cake & Custard. These have each had their own success and in business, there are two...

What is a good RAG status …..50 Shades of Green?

By Andy McLean
In Leadership, Measures

I woke up this morning to the memory of an old friend. I was supporting him within a large UK banking organisation when he had a ‘moment’. There we were, in front of a team of senior managers and, for whatever reason the red mist descended. His emotions had got...

How to harness the amazing power of team work

By Jason Elliot
In Leadership, Lean Thinking, Management

Team work is one of the most important tools to achieving a successful result. I recently made a trip to the Snowdonia mountains with a group of friends to take in some of the fantastic mountaineering opportunities. Whilst we were out on day 1 in the heavy rain, attempting what...

Could a woman play in a men’s football league?

By Cameron Turner
In High Performance, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma

Have we got the right people in the right roles? Blackburn Rovers play in the Championship League here in England – and they’re not having a great season. There’s a good chance they’ll be relegated to League One next season.

Not Everyone Likes Music

By Cameron Turner
In Leadership

Believe it or not, liking music isn’t a universally shared trait. We had some friends around for dinner the other night and the topic of conversation eventually turned its way to music.

Walking the walk

By Cameron Turner
In Leadership

One of the reasons why an organisation has so much opportunity to improve is because Managers are too far removed from the work. I see this in varying degrees when I visit a workplace.