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The Great Training Robbery
I’d love to take credit for this provocative title, but I can’t. This phrase was first used 45 years ago when a study showing little or no relationship between training and work performance was published. More recently, it was used by a Harvard Business School working...
One-Learner Flow for Efficient Knowledge Transfer
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 put it more...
Don’t Be Scared Away From Lean
As you can imagine, I’m on a lot of mailing lists and social media groups about Lean and see it described and talked about in many ways. Recently, some of these have been really over the top and, quite frankly, do a disservice. Headlines like “Improvement Through...
Training: The Strategic Resource You Need to Succeed in the Pandemic-Driven Landscape
Right now none of us even has a clear view of what’s coming, much less a roadmap. The only thing we can know for sure is that organizations need to be resilient, agile and speedy, ready to pivot on a dime to react to changing conditions. And there’s exactly one resource that can infuse your organization with those three traits.
Audio Only: Todd’s ‘Learning at the Speed of Lean’ Workshop at ATD Puget Sound
In October 2017 in Seattle I facilitated a Lean Knowledge Transfer workshop called 'Learning at the Speed of Lean' at ATD Puget Sound’s fall learning event. I split the attendees into teams and taught them how to use three Lean principles and tools to analyze and...
Mindful Habits for 7 Lean Practices
Todd's Been Awfully Quiet Lately. What's He Been Up to? Well, one of several really cool things I’ve been doing in 2018 is writing my new ebook, Mindful Habits for 7 Lean Practices (another thing I've been up to is applying Lean to EH&S and research laboratories,...
To Continuously Improve, Study Your Results
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...
Small Wastes Get BIG Quickly
I’m going to show you some numbers. And you’re going to want to see them sitting down. No, really. They’re going to be hard to believe. You’re going to see how small wastes get BIG very quickly. Specifically, I’m going to show you how minutes of wasted time turns into...
You CAN Train for Mistake-Free Performance
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...
Can You Distinguish Real Demand From Artificial Demand (and why it matters)?
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...
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