How Do You Approach Continuous Improvement?

With today’s challenges, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the right leadership and support to help your team with continuous improvement.  We see job ads daily where companies are looking for continuous improvement leadership.  As you move forward, here are some options to consider.

1.      Let your team learn and apply on their own and support them with some training.

2.      Hire dedicated improvement resources internally to become part of your team.

3.      Hire a consultant to add expertise and focus on specific projects.

How you decide to move forward will of course be based on your needs and resources available to you.  You may want to provide specific training and put together a training plan and budget.  In addition, perhaps you will want to speed up changes by budgeting and hiring a dedicated resource.  Inevitably, consultants may be needed for expertise for a specific situation or opportunity.

Here are just a few things important to us at LeanGo.

Substance Over Style

All too often, business advisors or guidebooks will introduce a whole new vocabulary for their processes. Sometimes they try to make themselves sound important or informed without really adding any quality to their communication.  Buzzwords might make you think something sounds hip or worthwhile, but once you get past these self-important words, you find out that what’s actually being communicated is rarely as helpful or as meaningful as it’s made out to be. With LeanGo, we take the opposite approach. Clear and understandable communication, in terminology you’re already familiar with, to get straight to the personal impact, ideas, quick action, and changes that will build momentum.

Flexibility

Traditional consultants typically dedicate a team of people to help you.  Most will want an agreement from you that will solidify full time assignments for weeks or months.  They do expensive assessments only to find out how to pay for themselves.  Most of the time this is a stressful commitment for leaders, in terms of both time and cost.  Our approach is flexible and can be a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting services, while providing real impactful progress with your team.  Our goal is to help each person with the waste they experience firsthand.  Only after these are addressed, can momentum be gained and even more time spent on bigger ideas and changes.  We can speed up or slow down to meet your needs.  With LeanGo you get meaningful change without meaningless costs.

Partnering

LeanGo remains a part of your team for the long haul.  This allows us to build the relationships needed for trust in trying new things.  We will transfer the improvement system knowledge needed as we go and prove things out with results and progress.  If you have an internal dedicated improvement team, we can work directly with them.  Sustainment and momentum can be transferred to them regularly through the best practices.