Lean Leadership for Ops Managers
Episodes
132 episodes
Making Hard Decisions Based on Values | 128
How well do you stick to your core values when it comes time to make hard decisions? It’s easy to talk about them in meetings and put them as posters on the walls, but do your decisions and actions align with your values? In this ep...
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What is Lean Leadership (REPLAY) | 127
What is Lean Leadership? It’s kind of an elusive, hard-to-define thing. In today’s episode, I’ll break down what both Lean and Leadership mean to me, which then drives how I develop leaders. You’ll hear key component...
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How to Listen Effectively as an Operations Leader | 126
How well do you listen? How quickly do you jump in and start offering solutions or try to fix the problem? In this episode, Jamie shares things that hinder us from listening and how to listen effectively as an operations leader.What ...
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Developing a Growth Mindset as a Leader with Katie Anderson | 125
How do we create an organization that has a growth mindset? So often, we look at our teams to see how they can improve, but building a culture of improvement starts with us as the leaders. In this episode, Katie Anderson joins us to discuss GE'...
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Safety is a Team Sport | 124
How do you approach safety? As leaders, it's easy to focus on policies to ensure everyone follows the rules, but safety encompasses so much more than procedures; it is a team sport. In this episode, Jamie shares how safety starts with our minds...
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Live from GE's Event: The Lean Mindset | 123
Hello from New York! I am coming to you live from GE's Lean Mindset Event, which focuses on encouraging the right mindset to embrace lean and features several excellent speakers across different industries, including CEOs from top companies, fo...
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How to Effectively Delegate for Development | 122
How might operations leaders delegate more effectively? In this episode, Jamie explains how the reason we delegate can drive more effective delegation and practical steps you can take to delegate for development efficiently.What Y...
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The Real Reasons Ops Managers Should Delegate | 121
Why do you delegate? How does that determine what tasks you choose to give? In this episode, Jamie discusses the real reasons Ops Managers should delegate and how it benefits themselves plus other members of their team.Wh...
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Three Obstacles to Delegation | 120
How often do you delegate? It can be difficult to delegate tasks that could be completed by other members of our team, in turn freeing up more of our time. In this episode, Jamie discusses three common obstacles that leaders face regarding dele...
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Having Fun in Operations Leadership | 119
How often do you characterize your work as fun? In this episode, Jamie shares how a big challenge and getting creative and trying new and better ways is fun for her, and as Operations Managers, you should be finding fun in your wor...
Lean Culture Requires Productive Conflict (REPLAY) | 118
You can’t have a lean culture without conflict, but so many organizations and leaders are NOT comfortable with conflict. Here’s the question: “What would be the impact to your organization if you could have less destructive conflict and more pr...
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The Pitfall of Unstructured Urgency | 117
Do any of your leaders ever rush into solving a problem? It’s so easy to jump in and start pushing and moving too fast without taking a measured approach. In this episode, Jamie discusses the pitfall of Unstructured Urgency and how to overcome ...
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Great as an Enemy to Good in Operations Leadership and Execution | 116
Do you ever find yourself stalling to make a decision? Leaders often get stuck not making a decision because they don’t know enough or how to make the “perfect” one. In this episode, I share how perfection is an Enemy of Effective Operation and...
One Cause of Failed Execution
What causes Ops Leaders to struggle with effective execution? Even when the processes are in place, they never seem to be used consistently or correctly. In this episode, Jamie discusses how complexity is a cause of failed execution, and how to...
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Focus When Everything Is Important | 114
I know you are busy. So, how do you prioritize tasks when they are all important? How do you decide what to focus on? In this episode, I discuss an enemy of execution: distraction. Not being distracted with meaningless or unimportant things, bu...
Coaching Techniques for Self Leadership (REPLAY) | 113
So often leaders want to learn how to “fix other people.” To get them to do the work, to get on board, to be better. But true leadership starts with our own thoughts, beliefs, and self awareness. You are probably keenly aware of you...
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The Manager Mistake of Constraining Possibility | 112
Do you want it done on time, or do you want it done right? We’ve all heard statements like this, and maybe we’ve even said them. It’s so easy to get caught up in this either/or thinking and thinking it’s impossible to have both outcomes. But wh...
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How to Create Effective Leader Standard Work with Paul Dunlop | 111
As a leader, do you find too much of your time is spent in chaos and firefighting? Would you prefer to spend your energy moving your team toward an improved culture with better business results? In today’s episode, Paul Dunlop explains how Lead...
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Improving Your Leadership through Lean Leader Standard Work with Tracy O'Rourke | 110
Is there any greater priority in today’s business environment than attracting and retaining talented and dedicated employees? In today’s episode, Tracy O’Rourke explains the critical impact of meaningful leader routines on the engagement of a c...
Making Work Human: Lead People Well and Get Results with Moe Carrick | 109
While work is made up of process, organizations are made up of people. That’s right, weird, messy, emotional human beings. So operations leadership isn’t just about managing operations or improving process - it’s also highly dependent on leadin...
Navigating the Intangibles of Leadership with Elisabeth Swan | 108
How often do you share your mistakes as a leader? So often in organization we celebrate success and share what went right, while shying away from the mistakes and lessons learned it took to accomplish that success. In this episode w...
Advancing Women in Leadership with Kelli Thompson | 107
Diverse executive teams deliver better performance. It’s shown in study after study. Despite modest progress, women are still dramatically underrepresented in leadership roles. How can women take steps to advance to the rooms where deci...
Expanding What's Possible with Sarah Tilkens | 106
Happy New Year! As we shift our focus to the next year by setting goals and thinking about what we want to achieve, it’s easy to limit what we believe is possible. In this episode, Sarah Tilkens shares how to shift from a goal mindset to a grow...
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Individual Purpose and Toyota Kata with Sam Morgan | 105
What is your personal purpose? So often, we talk about organizational purpose as part of our True North, but what about you personally? What motivates you to keep going during those challenging days?In this episode, Sam Morgan joins us t...
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Breaking the Telling Habit with Katie Anderson | 104
We all have a telling habit and may not even realize it. As leaders, we are often blind to the fact that instead of answering a question or giving a suggestion, we are telling others what they should do. In this episode, Katie Ander...
