The Lean Solutions Podcast

This week I’m chatting with Paul Dunlop, a Lean expert and Principal Consultant with over 20 years of management and manufacturing experience across a broad range of industries.
In this episode we talk about focusing on accountability and performance management to improve your overall productivity. We also chat about why it’s so important to build your improvement on a solid foundation so that you can move from chaos and lack of structure to calm productivity.
What You’ll Learn This Episode:

How to build improvement activity on a good foundation

The importance of accountability

Performance management and why it’s needed

The idea of perfection and why it may be stopping you

Fear and leadership

Making behavior visual

About the Guest:
In his operational management roles Paul Dunlop has led successful Lean implementation and transformations using the principles of the Toyota Production System and is green belt certified. Paul’s passion for operational excellence using Lean tools and methodology has helped drive sustained continuous improvement and financial performance at many businesses.
Paul’s human centered approach focuses on engaging the ongoing support and commitment of both frontline staff and senior management through effective Lean leadership to facilitate engagement and inclusive problem-solving cultures.
Paul supports and encourages organizations and individuals to go from chaos to calm productivity.
Important Links:
https://www.dunlopconsultants.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlopconsultants/

Show Notes

This week I’m chatting with Paul Dunlop, a Lean expert and Principal Consultant with over 20 years of management and manufacturing experience across a broad range of industries.

In this episode we talk about focusing on accountability and performance management to improve your overall productivity. We also chat about why it’s so important to build your improvement on a solid foundation so that you can move from chaos and lack of structure to calm productivity.

What You’ll Learn This Episode:

  • How to build improvement activity on a good foundation
  • The importance of accountability
  • Performance management and why it’s needed
  • The idea of perfection and why it may be stopping you
  • Fear and leadership
  • Making behavior visual

About the Guest:

In his operational management roles Paul Dunlop has led successful Lean implementation and transformations using the principles of the Toyota Production System and is green belt certified. Paul’s passion for operational excellence using Lean tools and methodology has helped drive sustained continuous improvement and financial performance at many businesses.

Paul’s human centered approach focuses on engaging the ongoing support and commitment of both frontline staff and senior management through effective Lean leadership to facilitate engagement and inclusive problem-solving cultures.

Paul supports and encourages organizations and individuals to go from chaos to calm productivity.

Important Links:

https://www.dunlopconsultants.com.au/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlopconsultants/

What is The Lean Solutions Podcast?

This podcast offers business solutions to help listeners develop and implement action plans for lean process improvement and implement continuous improvement projects, cost reductions, product quality enhancements, and process effectiveness improvement. Listeners come from many industries in both manufacturing and office applications.