by esquared2019 | Jun 12, 2020 | Coaching, Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Optimize Operations, Team Facilitation, Transformation
From its intellectual roots in the teaching, practice, and vision of Socrates 2,500 years ago, critical thinking is an essential part of life. Critical thinking is the ability to interpret, analyze, evaluate, explain, and find results in uncertain situations. It is...
by esquared2019 | May 27, 2020 | Business, Coaching, Continuous Improvement
It is no surprise that with a change in routine comes a shift in how we view ourselves. Humans, by nature, are creatures of habit. While that sentence has a cliched history, there are reasons that it became so. As our lives turned upside down with the pandemic and...
by esquared2019 | May 20, 2020 | Business, Coaching, Continuous Improvement, Lean
For many small and midsize organizations with a few hundred up to a few thousand employees, COVID-19 has jolted businesses in unforeseen ways. This pandemic has forced us into a deluge of change, from keeping people and customers safe, managing supply chain issues,...
by esquared2019 | Apr 13, 2020 | Business, Coaching, Continuous Improvement, Office, Team Facilitation
For the past several weeks, many of us began working from home (or WFH). For some of you, working in remote environments has plunged you into a realm of the unknown. However, for many, WFH has been the status quo for years. I began working from home full time in 2006...
by esquared2019 | Mar 20, 2020 | Business, Coaching, Continuous Improvement, Empower Teams, Leadership
Have you trained continuous improvement (CI) practitioners (i.e., Green/Black Belts, Lean practitioners) to see limited success with improvement project execution? Or are your newly-trained CI practitioners struggling to move forward in their improvement projects?...
by esquared2019 | Mar 18, 2020 | Business, Coaching, Empower Leaders, Transformation
With the onset of streaming services for movies, there are a plethora of movie choices available to be watched at any time. As an Amazon Prime customer, our family occasionally enjoys watching an older movie or TV show in an attempt to share (or relive) pop culture...
