by Todd Hudson | Apr 1, 2024 | All
How many times a week does someone lean their head into your office and say, “Hey, we need a training course on xyz?” But do they really need it? Too often, people request learning solutions for issues that learning can’t, or won’t, solve. Only create learning...
by Todd Hudson | Feb 1, 2024 | All
It’s 10:38 on an average Tuesday morning. You’re just settling into your second cup of coffee when you hear a sound that makes your blood run cold: the siren that signals a hazardous materials release in the laboratory. As you rush through crowds of evacuating...
by Todd Hudson | Apr 26, 2023 | All
Woohoo! You’ve just launched a new training program and rolled it out to the organization. Time for high fives, right? Not so fast… If you’ve been learning about Lean, you know that all problem solving activities are guided by the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, in...
by Todd Hudson | Apr 15, 2023 | All
In my conference talks, I often say one of the ultimate goals of corporate learning is that employees will never make a mistake on the job. And, when I say it, I always get a big mix of laughs, snorts, and head-shaking. “Never happen,” people say. Well, go tell that...
by Todd Hudson | Apr 2, 2023 | All
During a recent lunch with one of my Lean for Training certification candidates, we discussed a key Lean concept that had really caught her attention. It’s called “one-piece flow” and it means to satisfy individual customer demand immediately or, to...
