Transformational

Leadership & Executive Coaching

LEAN Methodologies

So Much to Think About. So Little Time. That’s Where I come In.

Trust is key to building a fully empowered Operational Excellence Organization. The level of trust among people is determined by leadership engagement and clear communications. Understanding how to observe these communications and assess how they either build or diminish trust is an important part of building capabilities for success in your organization for its Lean journey. Learning and practicing coaching capabilities with the focus on building trust is a skill that needs to be developed and practiced.

    The Lean Your Way approach to coaching

    Our Coaches works side-by-side with executives, and leaders of the organization as they are interacting with their employees.

    1. Executives and leaders become aware of their communication style and understand both their level of respect for the subordinate and their trust in deploying problem responsibility.
    2. Executives and leaders learn how to ask humble, open-ended questions to build engagement.
    3. Employees feel the safety needed to fully embrace challenges with the support of their leader to reduce waste daily.

     

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    What makes our approach different?

    Typical coaching models focus on correction of the employee. Coaching for correction requires the coach to observe, judge, and then communicate the corrective action to the employee. The Lean Your Way approach is coaching for development, which requires the employee to do the continuous improvement problem-solving thinking, with support from the coach to gently guide the employee through the continuous improvement problem-solving process.

    Through this process the employee feels respect and trust from the coach so that he/she can address the continuous improvement problem-solving challenge. We not experts in your process. We are experts in Lean and Operational Excellence that is agnostic and can be applied to any industry or organization.

    Delighted Clients

    “Why do I say that it’s critical that we have the full engagement of the organization? It’s just a question of mathematics. The executive team represents about 1% of this company. If we get 10% improvement from them, it will make no difference to the success of this company. But if we got the other 99%, 10 percent more engaged, doing 10 percent better work, driving 10-20 percent better results, you can see the difference that’s going to have in our success. At the end of the day, the most important people In the company are those closest to operations, those closest to the consumer, those closest to the customer, that’s where value is created. We’re literally entrusting the future of this company to the people who operate this company.”

    – Patrick Lockwood-Taylor, President & CEO of The Oneida Group

    “John was the business consultant specializing in Lean & Six Sigma in a manufacturing environment and produced such excellent results that I would have never believed possible had I not seen the results myself. When asked to chose three attributes that best describe John I picked “great results. high integrity and creative”. in truth John also possesses the other attributes (personable, expert, good value & on time).”

    – Frank Colantuono, President & Industry Principal at SAP America

    “We worked with FlowCycle MARIS Methodology for four months to help us with our Employee Involvement and Empowerment efforts. We are very happy with the results. We have never had so many positive responses from our employees. They have been very successful in changing and helping our people.

    – Ron Z.

    “John has in-depth experience at designing and implementing lean systems in a wide variety of manufacturing and transactional processes. He is very focused on the practical application of lean principles, and not just theory. John is a down-to-earth person who can relate to anyone from the shop floor up through senior management. He cares deeply about those affected by change, and genuinely wants to help others to grow in their knowledge and skills. Although John does take his job seriously, he has a good sense of humor and does not take himself seriously.”

    – Russ A.

    “John is a true sensei! He has a wealth of knowledge across several businesses. He sees the big strategic picture, as well as, the engagement and tactical implementation required to ensure sustainment. I highly recommend him.”

    – John T.