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KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More

KaiNexuswww.kainexus.com
The KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast features content from our webinars. We also share conversations with KaiNexus team members and customers from time to time. This podcast brings you information about continuous improvement best practices, employee engagement, lean, six sigma (and related improvement disciplines) and more. Join us as we explore the nuances of creating a culture of continuous improvement, no matter your level of expertise or your industry.
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Episodes

Congratulations, You Have Lots of Employee Ideas! Now What?

Topics: - how to discuss ideas constructively with employees - how to prioritize ideas (and if that's even necessary) - how to assign responsibility for improvement work - how to create time for improvement - how to track improvements

Nov 10, 20151 hr 7 min

Excitement About Kaizen in an ED

In this episode, Maggie Millard and Dr. Greg Jacobson, tell a story about a colleague of Greg's who was excited to hear the word "Kaizen" based on past experience.

Oct 19, 20156 min

The ROI of Workouts and KaiNexus

Originally Aired: May 15, 2014 Mark Graban, Suz Kaprich, Dr. Greg Jacobson This webinar covers: The background and goals of the WorkOut methodology, based on the "GE Work-Out" Model The method used in KaiNexus WorkOuts The process and ROI of the WorkOut recently completed at Mary Greeley Medical Center Excellent opportunities for improvement identified by the Mary Greeley WorkOut team Q&A

Sep 27, 201537 min

Building the Fit Organization (Dan Markovitz)

We’re really looking forward to the webinar that Dan Markovitz will be presenting on October 13, based on his new book Building the Fit Organization. We hope you’ll join us - register today at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars.

Sep 19, 20154 min

Bridging the Gap: How to Turn Ideas into Improvements

http://www.kainexus.com/webinars From September 2015 Making Time for For Continuous Improvement Hosted By: Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson In this webinar, we will share proven techniques that help you and your organization bridge the gap between getting those ideas for improvement, and actually making measurable change. The dangers of neglecting to follow through on employee improvement ideas Techniques for capturing more ideas for improvement How to coach people to implement more ideas The metri...

Sep 12, 201556 min

Surprising That Suggestion Boxes Fail?

Read this post: http://www.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/resources-for-continuous-improvement/continuous-improvement-podcast Get more information about our podcasts at http://www.kainexus.com/podcasts

Sep 07, 20156 min

Making Time for For Continuous Improvement

http://www.kainexus.com/webinars From August 2015 Making Time for For Continuous Improvement Duration: 1 hour Making_Time_for_CI_Webinar_CoverTopics: Leadership, Culture of Continuous Improvement Hosted By: Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson Learn about how you can make more time for continuous improvement for yourself and your staff by using continuous improvement software to: Empower employees Streamline communication Increase efficiency Improve visibility

Aug 28, 201559 min

Blog Post on Frankensystems

From the KaiNexus blog, a post by Maggie Millard: Are You Creating a Monster with Your Continuous Improvement Technology? http://blog.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement-software/creating-a-monster-with-continuious-improvement-technology

Aug 23, 20155 min

Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous

From June 2014 Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement Watch this free webinar to learn: Leadership_behaviors_WebinarWhat you should be doing to create a culture of continuous improvement How to encourage the identification, testing, evaluation, and sharing of improvements Best practices for collaborating on improvement When to get involved… and when to get out of the way

Aug 16, 20151 hr

From the Blog, Practicing Lean

A blog post from August 4, 2015. For the original post visit http://blog.kainexus.com/improvement-disciplines/lean/practicing-lean

Aug 09, 20158 min

ROI of Continuous Improvement

From March 2014 What's the ROI of Continuous Improvement? Duration: 1 hour Topics: ROI, Continuous Improvement Hosted By: Greg Jacobson and Mark Graban ROIofcontinuousimprovementHow to measure the ROI of continuous improvement How to communicate that ROI with your executives Hidden places to look for additional ROI The role of software in achieving, calculating, and communicating ROI

Aug 02, 201559 min

How Personal Growth Plans Support Continuous Improvement

Originally Aired: May 12, 2015 Length: 1 hour Hosted By: Mark Graban (KaiNexus VP of Customer Success) Presenter: Norman Bodek In this webinar: Lessons from Norman Bodek's 80+ visits to Japan The "9th Waste" of Lean The role of managers in creating a culture of continuous improvement The importance of personal growth plans and self reliance How the "Harada Method" furthers these goals of self reliance and Kaizen Join us for a very special conversation with a Lean legend, Norman Bodek. Norman wor...

Jul 26, 201559 min

How to Spread Continuous Improvement

Originally Aired: April 14, 2015 at 1p EDT See the webinar archive, videos, and slides at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars Listen to this webinar now to learn: How to spread continuous improvement throughout your organization Why it's important to spread improvement ideas beyond the team that discovered them Real life examples of how organizations overcome common barriers to spread It's one thing for continuous improvement to thrive within your team of improvement specialists... it's a whole dif...

Jul 26, 201553 min

Jamie Flinchbaugh Improvement Behaviors

Originally Aired: March 17, 2015 Hosted by Mark Graban, Guest is Jamie Flinchbaugh How To Drive Improvement Behaviors To Increase Performance Gains - Learn how the improvement behaviors of your staff directly determine your results - See why most leaders fail to get the behaviors they need from employees - Learn how to design an actionable strategy for deliberate behavior change - on any budget Visit http://www.kainexus.com/webinars to see slides and more

Jul 22, 201556 min

System Wide Improvement Jason Coons

Presented June 15, 2015 by Mark Graban & Jason Coons See slides http://info.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/culture-of-continuous- improvement/a-system-wide-approach-to-driving-process-improvement/webi nar A System-Wide Approach to Driving Process Improvement Get actionable advice from lessons learned in Kettering Health Network's 5 year process improvement journey Hear how Kettering's system-wide approach to projects, training, and daily problem solving led to $2.6 million of financial ...

Jul 22, 20151 hr

How to be an Influential Kaizen Coach Joe Swartz

Presented July 16, 2015 by Mark Graban & Joe Swartz. Why coaching matters to your organization, leaders, and staff Practical methods for coaching staff and leaders How to develop people to be better improvement facilitators Numerous coaching scenarios and examples from Franciscan St. Francis Health and other organizations and other industries Key coaching fundamentals used at Franciscan

Jul 18, 201559 min
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