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Tips and Tricks to Use Lean Management at Home

As we all know, lean management principles were created to eliminate waste and maintain better control over workflows and processes. Thousands of organizations have implemented these concepts in order to make their teams and production processes more efficient. However, these tenets and tools don’t have to be used exclusively in a professional setting. Many of […]

How Business Waste Can Impact Your Company’s Growth

As a lean leader, it shouldn’t be any surprise that waste can negatively impact your business’ bottom line. In lean management, practitioners spend a significant amount of time and effort into eliminating waste at every turn in their team’s workflows — both to amp up productivity and to ultimately boost those revenues. Waste is defined […]

Tips to Help Your Employees Transition From Colleague to Manager

As a manager, one of your most important duties is to help guide your workers to become their best, most productive selves. And when you’re successful, oftentimes one of your employees will get a leg up in the form of a promotion. They definitely deserved a pat on the back for a job well done. […]

Top Kanban Resources To Guide You Through Building Your Board

When a manager opts to take the leap to lean management principles, it can be a daunting decision. With numerous tenets to master and train workers on, it can seem like an overwhelming task to implement lean and kanban into your workflow. However, there are hacks to help you make this transition a little easier. […]

A Few Tips To Help You Master Lean Principles

It’s a fairly simple task to read through and understand all the basic principles of lean management. However, mastering and implementing this set of philosophies is another task entirely. But there are some effective methods for successfully learning and implementing lean management into your organization. We’ve scoured the research, and here are some of the […]

Leankor to Present at Association for Manufacturing Exellence Conference

Leankor is headed down to Cinncinati, OH, this week to present at the Association for Manufacturing Excellence’s 2015 conference. Armed with a shiny, new booth courtesy of Indy Displays, we’re ready to introduce ourselves to the lean community and all the continuous improvement experts in attendance. We’re enthusiastic about explaining how Leankor can help attendees execute on […]

Daily Lean Tip: Using a ‘Knock Rule’ To Keep Meetings Efficient

When it comes to meetings, they sometimes seem interminable. It’s difficult to get anything done when your schedule includes one meeting after another. And let’s face it — not all of these gatherings are particularly productive. As a business leader, you definitely want to take a hard look at how most of these meetings are […]

The Benefits of a Virtual Kanban Board

When it comes to project management, one of the tried-and-trusted tools around is the kanban board. This board system is a great way to visually track the life cycle of a project or follow through task from beginning to end. And all you really need to build one is a whiteboard and some sticky notes, […]

Life As A Manager: 3 Ways To Get the Best Out of Your Team

Motivating your team is one of the most crucial components of your role as a leader in your business. But boosting your workers’ productivity and keeping them efficient can be a full-time task in itself. So, as a manager, how can you get the best out of your team? Here are the three top tips […]