There are three key elements that you need to spread a culture of continuous improvement in any organization. Check out this presentation to see what those elements are, and learn when leaders should be doing to address all three.

1. How to Spread
Continuous
Improvement
Keys to Success for Leaders:

2. There are three keys to success
when it comes to the spread of
continuous improvement:
1. Leadership
2. Methodology
3. Technology

3. Leadership Methodology Technology
Key Actions to Promote the Spread of Continuous Improvement:
1. Lead by example
2. Coach with questions, not answers
3. Empower people to implement ideas
4. Train the behaviors you want to establish
5. Recognize and share improvements
Leaders are the critical change agents in promoting the spread of a
continuous improvement. Without the active support of
leadership, a culture of continuous improvement does not exist.

4. Leadership Methodology Technology
To learn more about how to lead a culture of continuous improvement, check out
these additional resources:
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Better Not Best
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5. Leadership Methodology Technology
Your methodology for implementing continuous improvement
needs to fit a number of criteria in order to be effective:
1. Keep it simple enough that everyone can participate, without a lot of training
2. Have disciplined and consistent improvement discussions and processes
3. Scrutinize processes, not people
4. Have a standard methodology across the organization
5. Emphasize the value of small and simple changes
6. Focus on customer value and needs
7. Align improvement efforts with organizational goals and measures

6. To learn more about the methodology that drives a culture of continuous
improvement, check out these additional resources:
Lots of Small Ideas
Small Problems
Processes Not People
Waste & Non-Value Added Steps
No Solution, Submit Anyway
Videos:
eBook:
The Savvy Leader’s Guide
to Employee Engagement
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Webinars:
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Now What?
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Leadership Methodology Technology

7. 1. Respond quickly to all employee ideas for improvement
2. Provide encouragement and access to resources for each improvement:
3. Coach and provide guidance to overdue improvements (Overdue OIs) and tasks
4. Reward and encourage implemented improvements:
Leadership Methodology Technology
Your continuous improvement technology is the platform from
which you should manage the spread of continuous improvement. It
must enable you to:
THANK: Quickly acknowledge and thank those who submit and implement ideas
EMPOWER: Empower employees to make improvements autonomously
SUPPORT: Offer support and coaching to assist in implementing the improvement
REVIEW: Review the completed improvement and impact
REINFORCE: Provide positive reinforcement for implementing the improvement
SHARE: Share completed improvements with other people in the organization

8. To learn more about how technology
supports the leadership and methodology
you need to spread continuous
improvement, check out these additional
resources:
Video:
Leadership Methodology Technology
Webinars:
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KaiNexus Reports
KaiNexus in Action
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Your Classes
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eBook:
Everything You Need to
Know about Continuous
Improvement Software
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