Trying to do all of the improvement work yourself as a manager?
“Many hands make for light work.” – John Heywood If Kaizen and continuous improvement are overwhelming …
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Kaizen Tips
This category shares short, practical Kaizen tips drawn from real coaching, leadership conversations, and day-to-day improvement work. The posts focus less on tools and more on behaviors—how leaders respond to ideas, how teams learn through small experiments, and how continuous improvement becomes part of everyday work.
These tips are written for healthcare leaders, managers, and improvement coaches who want to build sustainable Kaizen habits rather than run one-time initiatives.
Work to Implement Ideas
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Kaizen is Usually a Team Sport
What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban A Kaizen idea, whether it’s the identification of a problem or …
Quantifying the Benefits
In the Kaizen process, it’s important to document our improvements – the before, the after, and the benefits.Not …
Spreading and Sharing Ideas
What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban In the Kaizen process, we emphasize how important it is to involve …
Ideas and Root Causes
What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban In the Kaizen process, we ask everybody to identify problems (or …
Avoid the Shut Down
What is Kaizen? By Joe Swartz A few years ago, I discovered that our organization’s most …
The First Rule: Keep Ideas with the Creator
What is Kaizen? By Joe Swartz A few months ago one of our new managers asked …
25 Key Leader Behaviors that Encourage Continuous Improvement
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