Why You Should Have More Effective One-on-one Meetings
As a leader, facilitate interactions among the members and become a coach for them. Listen to their needs, identify their blocks and strengths, and help them build a path to grow. But this can be done during a team meeting or a retrospective. Individualize your support through frequent one-on-one sessions. Meet them where they are, when they need it the most.
3 Effective Ways To Train Leaders Through The We Culture Certification
To change the culture, all, especially leaders, need to learn new skills, but they need to learn them differently. Current methods are not effective. Register to the We Culture certification to learn more.
How To Move From a Five Percenters Culture To A We Culture
It is very sad to talk about a We Culture when incidents like the recent massacres in New York, California and Texas occur. But unfortunately, these events continue repeatedly, showing that we, as a society, still have a lot of work to do to behave as a We Culture.
How to Define a Shared Purpose and Core Values
deal than you as an individual; it could be for a company, community, or individual. Some people think of this as their legacy.
The WE CULTURE book is out!
I am happy to announce that my book We Culture is officially out!
4 practices to increase employee engagement through cultural change
In the pre-pandemic era, company culture was a given. Employees were expected to observe and mimic their leaders to follow the unspoken rules. The pandemic, however, revealed that most organizations lacked a corporate culture and operational agility to respond to permanent change. Today’s global, complex, and disruptive business environment demands companies to make their organizations more adaptive and agile. It’s imperative that organizations upskill their personnel and set their culture intentionally. The companies that develop this culture right will have an incredible, competitive advantage.
ASQ’s World Conference on Quality & Improvement presentation on Agile Leadership
ASQ’s World Conference on Quality & Improvement in Anaheim is coming up, and I will be speaking about “Agile Leadership: How to Drive a We Culture in hybrid teams”.
SORT: Develop focus and ownership
Sorting is the first step to implementing the 5S methodology, and developing focus and ownership is the first micro-change to start sorting efficiently. An essential part of 5S is to help team members focus and build ownership. The organization needs everybody to be involved in what’s going on, engaged, and ready to report improvements everywhere, anytime.
1S SORT: Separate needed from unneeded
Sort is the first step in any 5S process. The term sort derives originally from the Japanese word “Seiri” which means decide what you need. When you sort, the goal is to remove unnecessary items from the room, station, or space you live or work.
Do not manage by the numbers
Edwards Deming, was famous for his work as a statistician, fostering the use of control charts and the PDSA cycle. Still his major contribution was to promote quality and workers’ pride over management by the numbers back in the 1950’s.