Kaizen , a Japanese win-win tool to business and employees.

Quote : ” People may not remember exactly what you did,

Or What you said, but,

they will always remember how you made them feel“

– Maya Angelou

Kaizen is a Total Quality Management Tool of Japanese origin. Kaizen means “Small Improvement in Japanese language. “It can be practiced by any organization of the world. It costs zero to learn and permeate across the boundaries. Reaps ROI of incredible amounts in decades to come.

Empower Creative Buds:

Which Entrepreneur does not like to deep-dive and apply your creative pursuits in business areas. Would not it be great to have a diary of improvements that are done at the end of a 30 day period. The diversity of scope being that you can hit the improvement buttons in any area of your choice. Say work like entertainment, actor in movies, a teacher, author, a home-maker and the list continues on.About Me

Boost Business Everyday:

Kaizen works on al levels. It applies to all areas such as film making, acting, camera work. video editing, Digital Analytics, Engineering, Medicine, Sports Nutrition, Training, Online marketing, Home makers, and more scope to tap. More so I recently invented my own set of techniques to speeding my recovery from right hand wrist fracture. In this case, my PT (physio-therapy) Consultant approved several of my micro-level homemade ideas when shown to her. This upturn added macro on overall rate of my recovery. When multiple improvements start pouring from all the excited to do and involved persons, then business growth becomes a inevitable and predictable event to occur.

Amazing Neuroplasticity Shift:

Neuroplasticity and Growth Mindset have a common factor they they both trigger humans to be flexible. As well develop ability to recognize the potential for a consistent practice to convert into a successful event. Kaizens promote growth mindset in this way. And so can be inferred to relate to increase neuroplasticity. One or tow success recipes in your platter now set the tone to eat the rainbow. row. Meaning thereby keep up working for daily improvements, get them ,record them and discuss it on your media handles. Small daily improvements, over a period of time will lead to amazing shifts in your neuroplasticity that you cannot imagine at this moment of time. If successful improvements give happiness and releases happiness hormones such as serotonin and oxytocin ,you got it here, and your POWER MOVES in place.

Cognitive Uplift:

Kaizen is a good forte for upkeep of your cognitive skills. Practicing Kaizens enables keeping the neural pathways in a active state of function. As you are placing your attention on different areas of your life and brain on regular basis. So does your creativity stays intact and soar, if regularly practiced.

Small Group Activity:

Several tasks invite coalition of different discipline teams. This provides a platform to exchange of knowledge. Learnings from each other. Promotes better inter-personal bonding. Gives rise to more brainstorming opportunities and positive reinforcement on several aspects of professional work. Also employees make more friends and helps strengthen their personal bonds.

Key Performance Indicators :

Kaizens hold a significant berth as governing criteria in appraisals. Number of quality Kaizens determine more chances of scoring better in periodic appraisals. The accrued benefit can well be evaluated and the group or individual can be felicitated accordingly apart from Recognition in a major forum. Apart from this the process of deep work can help derive and add to the list of new Key Performance Indicators to the prevalent ones.

GRIT Boosters :

Kaizens help you with mustering up to higher levels of GRIT. Grit here tends to Gravity, Resilience, Invention and Talent. The dopamine rush that can be felt when your Kaizen takes a definite and winning turn can probably be equated to no lesser than the high recorded when you ace your HIIT – high intensity interval training sessions to the peak.

Knowhow Update :

The research and knowledge you apply on selected area during period of focus helps sharpen your skills to analyze your activity. You may here have to brainstorm on feasibility of line of action with different niche teams. Then distill the juice. Granulate on options to form your roadmap. and reach to desired outcome.

Patience Buildup:

Your work here may demand thought leadership. Putting thoughts and actions in a sequence. Collecting data and collating it. Upon submitting your draft plan to seniors teams or your partners, the approval to apply may take few days or weeks. Certain Kaizens require intensive investment of resources while some may require less but more time. More so, if trying it on trial requires, slowing down of mainstream business workflow . In addition, the manhours cost required if multiple entities have to be engaged for the initiative embarked upon. Yes, long term ROI may prove to be far more beneficial to the organization.

Active Feedback:

Seeking active feedback enables and ensures the pathway to Continuous Improvement. With feedback the scope for constant renewal of process , a change of approach, re-design of framework and entire re-invention exists. Furthermore, the entire Purpose Tag can be reframed as well with wider outlook. With help of more think tanks on the table. This present opportunity to add-in to your list of additional objectives. So finally to morph all new learnt into your newest business model.

Permanent Asset:

Kaizens you made are your personal property, although you made some of them for the company you worked in. I have personally have a TOP Ten Kaizen Certificate which I got way back in the nineties. By memory, I today recall almost of the major improvement I devised for that million dollar Chemical Group for which I was the Environmental Engineer way back. The improvements I made there likely have continued over the several years and reaped sustainable profits to the owner long after I changed my work career on several occasions.

Conclusion:

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