Today, I’d like to preview the next webinar that I’ll be hosting in our KaiNexus Webinar series. It’s going to be presented by my friend, Dr. Mark Jaben and it’s titled “A Great Idea Isn’t Enough for Successful Change.” You…
It’s a bit of a Throwback Thursday… in October of 2017, I wrote this post about my, ahem, “resistance to change” when it came to the new iPhone X: Two years later, I’m now considering upgrading to an iPhone 11…
TL;DR: Why do outdated practices linger in Lean and healthcare? This post dives into the clash between habit and evidence, exploring examples from surgical rituals to “starting with 5S.” True Lean thinking means questioning what we’ve always done–and being brave…
I was first introduced to the ExperienceChange simulations about ten years ago when I already had more than ten years of experience trying to facilitate change in manufacturing companies and healthcare organizations. Playing the healthcare-based “Lakeview” hospital simulation and learning…
It’s two Barrys in a row on the podcast, as my guest for Episode #335 is Barry O’Reilly and we’re talking, in depth, about his latest book, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. Barry is a…
What do you hope to change in 2019? If your New Year’s resolutions have already gotten off track, don’t feel bad. Various studies estimate that 80 to 90 percent of resolutions fail. We can get our resolutions back on track…
Thanks to Catalysis for asking me to write a guest blog post… yesterday, they published this: Being Open to Learning and Using Process Behavior Charts Means Unlearning Something Else My post starts: “Why don’t people adopt best practices? I get…
We have two free webinars coming up in the next week, hosted by KaiNexus. I hope you can join us.
Oh, as a reminder, I'm doing a Measures of Success webinar this Friday, the 22nd.
The webinars are:
The Lowdown on A3 Software [Demo]
How to Ease the Pain of Change
My guests for Episode 292 are the three co-authors of an excellent book, Motivational Interviewing for Leadership: MI-LEAD:
Jason Wilcox, Director of Education and Connected Care at VA Roseburg
Dr. Brian Kersh, Clinical Psychologist at New Mexico VA Health System
Dr. Elizabeth Jenkins, Clinical Psychologist/Courtesy Assistant Professor at University of South Florida
Today, I’d like to share the second in my series of articles about “Champions of Change.” Here, we feature my friends at Franciscan St. Francis, the health system of my Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz. As I wrote about in the first…
When I was recently considering switching from an iPhone 6S to a newer iPhone 8 Plus (or an iPhone X), I wrote this post on LinkedIn, which I’ll expand upon a bit in this post. I ended up buying an…
I'm excited to be attending the annual Lean Coaching Summit today through Thursday in Austin. If you're there, please say hi! Today, I've registered to take a class on a topic that I've taken an interest in over the past few years: "Motivational Interviewing," or MI for short. I'm hoping to learn more about coaching people through their stages of "change talk," as related to Lean and organizational change... and that's what today's post is about.