Strategies for Solid Employee Engagement
Does it seem like some of your teammates are just showing up for work (sometimes not even that)? If so, you are not alone. A…
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Leadership Service Immersion 4-Day Workshop
This 4-day interactive workshop is designed to develop key mindsets, approaches and skills to support business where continuous improvement is integrated into daily operations. Participants…
5S Thinking and Strategy Deployment, say what!
It’s that time of year where we begin to think about the future and our strategy for getting there. If you are using Strategy…
Training Within Industry (TWI) – SOUTHERN Wisconsin – Job Methods
One course of Optima’s three-course TWI Certification Program, this one-day workshop focuses on the skills required to improve and document current production/work methods. These skills,…
Coaching excellence and being the best version of yourself
I was recently listening to a Norman Bodek podcast on the Harada Method and coaching excellence. He spoke of Kyocera and its Chairman Kazou Inamori…
What’s the problem you are trying to solve?
Way too often organizations are pursuing the benefits of the Toyota Production System or Lean Enterprise by trying to imitate or copy others. While there…
Leader Standard Work for LEAN LEADERSHIP
What is your standard as a Manager or a Leader? Some insight; in vibrant, progressive organizations that strive to integrate continuous improvement with running the…
Lean Yardstick
Thinking about how the Lean Business System and its principles can influence your business is paramount and a key component of establishing your True North.…
Industry 4.0
Leadership of any organization is charged with determining ‘its’ future – where it is headed, how to address it and when – whether to come…
Training Within Industry (TWI) – Southern Wisconsin – Job Relations
Perhaps the most important element to effective use of TWI is the understanding and practical application by leaders to use Job Relations techniques. One course…
