DailyKaizen

We are about to start day 2 of our kaizen. Yesterday, I was asked to teach the section on defining waste. I was a bit nervous (just a bit) because this is not the normal subject that I teach. I was also excited to teach it, with the idea that the best way to learn something is to teach, and to introduce a topic like this to a group of motivated colleagues.

One thing was brought to my attention that impressed me. Another was something I noticed about myself:

1. The thing that was brought to my attention was that my discussion of waste was different than has been given to participants in a kaizen before. Without thinking about it, I used examples from my work team of waste, and brought them up in the first person - times when we found wasteful activities in what we did. I was told that this transparency hasn’t been seen in kaizen here before and that it created an open atmosphere. I was glad to hear that.
2. The thing that I noticed about myself was that when we did our personality profiles, I “profiled” as a different personality. I usually profile as an analyzing controller. Yesterday, I profiled as a persuader.  And I know why - when I looked at the words on the profile that I was supposed to identify with, I identified less with the words that typified the controller, like “aggressive,” and “stubborn.” Could be the way the profile was set up. Or maybe LEAN has transformed me as well as the process….

On to day 2, visioning….

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