Lean Leadership for Ops Managers – Détails, épisodes et analyse

How well do you stick to your core values when it comes time to make hard decisions? It’s easy to talk about them in meetings and put them as posters on the walls, but do your decisions and actions align with your values? 

In this episode, Jamie shares how our behavior shows our values, plus an important update regarding the podcast. 

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• An Update on the Podcast
• Core Values in an Organization
• Values Dictate Our Behavior
• Having the Courage to Make Hard Decisions

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/128

What is Lean Leadership?  It’s kind of an elusive, hard-to-define thing.

In today’s episode, I’ll break down what both Lean and Leadership mean to me, which then drives how I develop leaders. You’ll hear key components to consider when moving Lean Leadership beyond a buzzword to definable meaning.

This is my living and growing definition. Things can change, but the goal is to inspire you to create your own code to operate by. Let’s get to work!

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• What Lean means to me, and how it advances my purpose
• My current definition of Leadership
• How my definitions of Lean Leadership drive my practice in developing people
• Key considerations for how you think about Lean Leadership
• Explore for yourself: What is Lean Leadership?

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/127

You can’t have a lean culture without conflict, but so many organizations and leaders are NOT comfortable with conflict. Here’s the question: “What would be the impact to your organization if you could have less destructive conflict and more productive conflict?”

What You’ll Learn from this Episode

• Two types of workplace conflict, and how they differ
• How the research behind DiSC for Productive Conflict does - and doesn’t - align with the other conflict models we’ve explored on past episodes
• Why you can’t have a lean culture without conflict
• The role leadership action plays in stimulating productive conflict
• What Productive Conversations and Conflict is and how it can help your leadership team achieve more effective change adoption, gain better adherence to standard processes, and foster creativity and collaborative problem solving

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/118

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.

If you haven’t listened to episode 29 with Mike Wroblewski yet, be sure to check it out. It will give you the lens to better understand the missteps I took.

This is the advice I wish I’d had at the start of my Lean journey. Let’s go.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/030

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. Mike Wroblewski, President of Dantotsu Consulting and  co-author of “Creating a Kaizen Culture”, shares:

* 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

This is the Lean conversation I wish I had heard 10 years ago. Buckle up.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/029

I’ll be honest, lately there are tasks I just don’t want to do. We've all been there, right?  My normal techniques to muscle through weren’t working. We're continuing our series on time, and when I have projects building up that I don't want to do I get stressed and lack motivation.  It was time to take action. I turned to LinkedIn to get your best advice on how to stop procrastinating and get after the things I've been putting off. In this episode I share the amazing tips I received and how we all can benefit.


Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/028

Are you sabotaging your team's ability to manage time? It’s common for leaders to not have enough time for it all. Typically, this means leaders have to make difficult choices every day in how they will spend their time. 

How do senior leaders impact how effectively and how aligned those choices are made?
If you’re a leader of leaders, this is the episode for you.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/027

This episode is part of a series inspired by our interview with Patrick Adams in episode 24.
If you're interested in more, visit https://processplusresults.com/time/

Have you ever wished for more time? As we continue with our series inspired by the interview in Episode 24 with Patrick Adams, today we tackle this common problem. I'm going to use the model of Toyota Kata, the Improvement Kata in particular,  and then we're going to talk a little bit about how we apply it to this problem like,” I just don't have enough time” or “I'm not spending my time on the right things.” If you're not familiar with Toyota Kata, don't worry you'll be able to follow along. It's time to change our thoughts and find solutions to move forward.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/026

Have you ever felt like you're drowning in your work and just trying to keep your head above water? 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?

Inspired by our conversation with Patrick Adams in episode 24, I'll be sharing 6 steps to get you moving in the right direction.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://processplusresults.com/podcast/025 

Ops Leaders, here is my question for you this week: when it comes to a continuous improvement culture, how do you assess where your organization is today and what to prioritize? That's exactly what we're talking about today with our guest, Patrick Adams. I'm so excited for you to join me for a conversation about lean culture with the author of Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap.

Get full show notes and more information here:  https://processplusresults.com/podcast/024/

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