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Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries.
In this episode, Jesse and Megan discuss continuous improvement and how to handle resistance to change. The practice of continuous improvement by definition requires change … people making changes that continuously improve a process. Furthermore, in most organizations, implementing continuous improvement requires a change in culture. Together they explore the following questions:
- We hear that people are naturally resistant to change. Is that true?
- Why can it be hard to engage employees and executives to become fully committed to continuous improvement?
- And yet, isn’t it true that continuous improvement itself is a way to engage employees more fully in their work and the company?
- How do you get employees to believe in continuous improvement?
- How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement?
- What are the different types of resistance to change that leaders often face?
- How can you minimize resistance from the outset?
How do you as a leader deal with resistance to change? @MeganEBurns explains http://t.co/JCYHTBpa
— Jesse Lahey, SPHR (@JesseLahey) December 6, 2012
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Video: How to Use a Stakeholder Analysis to Identify Audience Members
Blog post: The 8 most common mistakes companies make with continuous improvement
Megan’s Webinar: How to Deal with Resistance to Change
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