This teaching article about Leader as Teacher and Coach is from Margie Hagene. Margie’s teaching and coaching focus is organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement/lean thinking. For over thirty years, she has helped executives and senior leaders recognize their changing roles and responsibilities in complex systems. By providing frameworks for thinking and learning, and evidence-based structures […]
https://createvalue.org/practices-of-leaders/
It has been said that there is one constant in life…that constant is change. This is not just true in our personal and professional lives, but in the organizations where we work. So here is the big question…how do we manage it? How do we prepare for it? How do we thrive in it? How […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/five-key-roles-leading-change/
Recently, I’ve been working with a non-profit board that is trying to reshape the organization’s mission. While they have a lot of hopes for the future and what the organization will accomplish, they find themselves spinning in conversation with no action forward. Without a plan, these will remain conversations of hopes and dreams. What are […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/moving-beyond-hopes-dreams-plans-realities/
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 […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/preparing-for-gemba/
Colby Parrott, Director of Organizational Effectiveness from The Vancouver Clinic, one of our Catalysis Healthcare Value Network members, shares strategies below of how to effectively develop people and support employee retention. Imagine if you only receive feedback on your work one time a year or if a one-to-one with your manager rarely happens. If these […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/developing-people-everyday-conversation/
Learn, share, connect is a phrase that we at Catalysis commonly use to describe our work with the healthcare community. And “catalysis” is a process that accelerates change, which is our mission. So it seemed fitting that we expand upon these ideas for the theme of our upcoming Summit. Learn, share, connect: Accelerating change during […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/learn-share-connect-accelerating-change-dynamic-times/
Are you on the path of organizational excellence, searching for what’s possible, where to go next, and ways to share your experiences and work with others in the lean community? We learn best when we can see something firsthand, interact with others, and combine our shared knowledge. The first step is finding a way to […]
https://createvalue.org/summit-usa/
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 […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/assembly-required-racing-bikes-management-systems/
I came across an article recently in the Sloan Business Review titled “Toxic Culture is Driving the Great Resignation.” The idea that toxic cultures were driving the current great resignation quickly connected with recent conversations I’ve had with friends about their struggles at work. Both friends who reached out have been having issues with their […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/principles-behaviors-job-satisfaction/
This is a revised and updated version of a previous blog of the same title that was originally posted on October 13, 2020. The goal of the management system for organizational excellence is to develop people to solve problems and improve performance. An effective management system will also open lines of communication from the CEO […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/common-struggles-implementing-management-system-2/
