Kaizen principles, as effective in the manufacturing plant as in coaching.

Kaizen Principles - Key to Sustainable Success

KAIZEN principles are the foundation of the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement, originally a Buddhist term meaning renew the heart and make it good.

KAIZEN principles are the key to sustainable success and can be effectively applied to achieve continuous improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life. When applied to the workplace, KAIZEN involves all stakeholders (leaders, managers and workers) and is characterized by a highly defined set of processes and standards to ensure long term success.

Renew the Heart and make it Good

KAIZEN is a step by step approach that recognizes:

people as the most important asset,
processes that evolve by gradual improvement rather than radical change are most effective
improvement is based on quantitative performance and process evaluation

5s principles of KAIZEN

SEIRI - Sort, clear out

SEITON - Set things in order.

SEISO - Clean and shine.

SIEKETSU - Standardize.

SHITSUKU - Self discipline.

KAIZEN focuses on eliminating waste of all kind:

Waste of motion
Time delays
Unnecessary transporting and material handling
Making defects
Over processing
Over producing
Storing inventory and
Missed opportunity.

KAIZEN principles help you standardize processes at work and practices in your life so you recognize which incremental improvement can leverage the greatest return.

Kaizen - a Two Pronged Approach

Maintaining best practices done on a day to day, moment by moment basis, through constant monitoring, assessing and evaluating – a process of mindfulness. Actions taken lead to a set of defined processes that evolve over time, into standards or best practices, with all members of the team participating.
Leadership and management establish and maintain the standard, and looks to continuously improve the current standard by managing the improvement cycle.

The KAIZEN principle of continuous improvement is just as effective in the manufacturing plant as it is in facilitating leadership, life, career and business transitions and are integrated into the framework of all our coaching programs.

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Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, KAIZEN Lifestyle Management, specializes in leadership, life and business coaching to help executives, managers, business owners and other creative professionals improve their personal and professional effectiveness and achieve sustainable success.

To learn more about how you or your organization can benefit from KAIZEN Life Coaching please contact us at 416 686 6463.

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