KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More

This appeared as a blog post titled "Happiness Is Not The Goal Of Employee Engagement Activities" by Maggie Millard http://blog.kainexus.com/employee-engagement/employee-engagement-activities/happiness-is-not-the-goal-of-employee-engagement-activities

We recently hosted a webinar called "Ask Us Anything" in which we asked people to, well, ask us anything. It was so popular that we hardly made a dent in the number of awesome questions everyone submitted. So, we've been answering more questions in a series of videos (see our playlist: https://youtu.be/GHnUsV_UYoo?list=PLscA9mcmPxeDXL5HdKKDosfXFoc4X3STO Watch this recording to hear us talk about: Informal problem solving methods that are effective with the front line staff Rolling out technology along with a methodology and leadership behaviors. What happens if you get a huge flood of ideas at first? How can continuous improvement, in the form of Lean, or Lean practitioners become part of the strategy or the decision-making process of high level management? Considering a company with a Balanced Scorecard and KPI in place, what are your recommendations to define the most effective connection with Lean? How to help move the executive team from "I support" to "I commit"? Best advice for coaching leadership towards an environment that promotes respect and trust for people in turn giving the people the foundation to bring ideas forward safely.

Webinar - How Leadership Commitment and A Systematic Approach Spread Improvement A webinar hosted by KaiNexus, presented by Karen Kiel-Rosser, Vice President / Chief Quality Officer at Mary Greeley Medical Center and Ron Smith, a Process Improvement Coordinator. Does your organization struggle with engaging everybody in daily continuous improvement? Is it difficult to figure out how to combine formal improvement events, projects, and "WorkOuts" while engaging all employees to bring forward their ideas? Are you unsure how to spread improvement methodologies across departments? In this webinar, you will learn: - How MGMC has combined Lean tools and methodologies with a "managing for daily improvement" approach - How leadership and technology enable and support successful improvement methodologies - MGMC's vision for leaders getting everybody engaged in improvement - How MGMC has systematically (and successfully) spread continuous improvement methodologies across the hospital over the past 12 months - Why it's important to engage leaders and to educate them about improvement and the role they need to play Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC), a 220 bed acute care facility in Ames, Iowa, has received "Gold" level recognition in the Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence (IRPE) program, the top honor in the IRPE program (the state level Malcolm Baldrige award).

This is part 2 of our webinar Q&A series, with Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson. Part 1 was released as Episode #18 of this podcast series.

When I first joined the KaiNexus team in 2011, we were just coming to market and had no paying customers. The vision of our co-founders, Dr. Greg Jacobson and Matt Paliulis, was compelling and they had taken significant steps toward bringing KaiNexus into the world. Last month, we had our first ever KaiNexus User Conference in Austin. We've grown to the point where we had about 30 customers join us to learn from each other. The map, below, shows the home locations represented by the attendees.

Do you have any burning questions about continuous improvement? What about leadership, or employee engagement, or how to manage innovation and improvement? Curious about what continuous improvement software is, or what it does? Tune in to this webinar for answers. In feedback about past webinars, people often comment that there should be "more time for Q&A." In the spirit of the popular "Ask Me Anything" series, we're going to conduct a webinar that is built around your questions - submitted in advance or submitted live. If you have questions about continuous improvement, kaizen, Lean, or any other topics, tune in for this unique webinar.

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

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.

http://blog.kainexus.com From September 2015 Who’s Responsible for Improvement Management? posted by Greg Jacobson

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