Lean Leadership Criteria

A Lean Leader is business savvy and understands how to make money and grow a business. They understand the strengths and weaknesses of their business’s activities. Lean leaders teach simple techniques to solve problems and identify opportunities, how to sort out the complexities and variables in the business to achieve results. Lean Leaders are outstanding teachers, who:

1. Challenges The Status Quo
2. Creates A Compelling Vision
3. Establishes Shared Values
4. Enables Others To Act
5. Models The Way
6. Encourages Through Praise

Lean Leaders do these six things constantly in large and small ways. Cumulatively, these actions change attitudes, responses and methodologies within the organization. Lean Leaders are visionaries. They want to transform, not merely maintain. Lean Leaders challenge status quo, and see opportunity everywhere and believe that sacred cows make the best hamburger. They revive failing companies, develop new products and revolutionize processes.

Lean Leaders have a Vision about what could be and should be, and envisions an uplifting future. They appeal to values, interests, hopes and dreams. A Lean Leaders vision is simple and they never lose an opportunity to share it. They bring it to life with metaphors, stories, symbols, slogans and examples.

Lean Leaders share values to build strong teams. Lean Leaders verbalize organizational and personal values that bind together the organization and develop a culture for change.

Lean Leaders give away power and enable others to act. The Lean Leader reduces perceived risk by focusing on success rather than failure and they rarely will second-guess. They provide necessary support and resources. Lean Leaders develop competence through teaching and training and understand that competency leads to pride and pride leads to superior performance.

Lean Leaders demonstrate their vision through action, they go out and “Just Do It”. They act as a snowplow and clear a path for others to succeed.

Lean Leaders do not assume individuals, teams or their organization knows when they have done well. Lean Leaders understand the need for encouragement through praise. Praise can be as simple as a handshake, a "Job Well Done", or to make the praise formal in a public recognition.

At Leanovations, LLC we believe developing solid Lean Leadership is the most important factor in a successful Lean transformation.

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