Tag: Employee Engagement
Kaiteki: The Japanese Philosophy Behind Motivated Employees and Lean Success
During my most recent visit to Japan (as part of a tour hosted by Katie Anderson), we spent time in several remarkable organizations--factories and...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 2, 2025
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 26, 2024
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Interview With Prof. Zeynep Ton On “The Case For Good Jobs”
Joining us for Episode #477 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Zeynep Ton. She is a professor of the practice at the MIT Sloan School...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 19th, 2023
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 10th, 2023
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 23, 2022
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Insights about improvement, innovation,...
Webinar: Leadership for Equity and Engagement (For Vaccinations and Beyond)
Recently, I hosted and moderated a presentation / panel discussion webinar with a team from Legacy Health, a health system that's based in Oregon....
Applying Lean and Kaizen at Chick-fil-A with David B. Reid, P.E....
Joining me for Episode #344 is David Reid, a mechanical engineer whose career has taken him from improvement work at Michelin Tire, to being...
A Lean Guy Reads “Health Leaders” on Nursing Retention and Leadership
Here's the latest in an occasional ongoing series I call "A Lean Guy Reads ________".
Today, I'm reading the latest issue of Health Leaders...
How 200 Jobs Were Saved by Engaging Employees in Continuous Improvement
Mark's Note: Today's post is the first guest post by Jess Orr, who you might remember from the webinars that she did for KaiNexus. I hope you enjoy the post...
As a continuous improvement practitioner, I recently faced a challenge that seemed nearly insurmountable.
Podcast #303 – Craig Deao, Effectively Engaging Employees… and Everyone Else
Joining me for Episode #303 is Craig Deao, a senior leader with Studer Group.
Today, we're talking about his book The E-Factor: How Engaged Patients, Clinicians, Leaders, and Employees Will Transform Healthcare. We'll talk about the differences between satisfaction and engagement, how to tell if people are engaged in their work, and how to engage various stakeholders, including employees, clinicians, and executives. We'll also talk about how Studer Group became a recipient of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in 2010.