When you sense your leadership plate is already full to the brim, the thought of adding just one more thing can be overwhelming. And if that new thing requires you to change, the fear that everything will topple over and make a bigger mess can stop you in your tracks. As a leader, you already […]
In sports, it seems that winning is everything. Players who don’t perform are cut. Teams who don’t win championships lose players to a perceived better opportunity with another team. As one of the winningest basketball coaches in history, John Wooden might be an exception to that philosophy. He coached his players to prepare to the […]
Racing bikes are designed for maximum performance. The design is intended to minimize aerodynamic drag, rolling resistance, and weight. With an untrained eye, you may identify its parts: tires, crank arm, pedals, handlebar stem, brakes, and shifters. Looking at the parts may not give insight into the assembly of how to best optimize performance. If […]
As an organization matures on the journey to organizational excellence, leaders shift their role to serve as coaches. In this environment it is important to build coaching capabilities within the Process Improvement team and among front-line managers. In the PI role, coaching for technical competency – like teaching tools is a skill used daily. However, […]
At the beginning of this year we began an experiment with Catalysis Healthcare Value Network member organization, PeaceHealth, and a handful of other eager healthcare organizations around the idea of creating a learning community. The goal was for PeaceHealth to share about their Safety STOP program and help other healthcare organizations develop one of their […]
Coaching capability is an important asset for an organization on a lean transformation journey. At the heart of lean transformation is the focus of improving processes and developing people. If your organization is not developing coaching capability to support team members during transformation, then you are missing part of the equation. As an organization matures […]
Often improvement team members are in the position of coaching someone who is a senior leader in the organization and who may even have positional authority over them. This can often be nerve-racking and make these coaches feel like they are not equipped to succeed.
