Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

Paul Blahyj is a coach at the Toyota Lean Management Centre. In this episode, Ryan Tierney and Matthew Thompson from Lean Made Simple ask him about: How he went from professional ice hockey to making doors at Toyota Working his way up from the factory floor to a senior leadership position Internally promoting vs externally hiring Why Toyota relies so much on paper over digital systems Earning the right to automated Why the term “low-skilled labourer” makes no sense And how Toyota can help take your lean journey to the next level. Check it out! https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/paul-blayj-toyota-lean-management-centre Links: Book a visit to Toyota here: https://tlmcshop.toyotauk.com/collections/our-courses Connect with Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-blahyj-8a3381258/ Ryan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tierney-6237a8199/

Last week, Ryan and the team were invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of the Toyota Factory in Derby where a car comes off the line every 88 seconds. In this episode, we share three mind-blowing takeaways from this trip, including: What a “quality control tunnel” is and how you can build one for your business Why stopping the line actually speeds up production Developing a people-centric culture that turns members into leaders The message picking up rubbish sends to your team How Toyota UK has never made anyone take a compulsory redundancy And what you can expect from Toyota UK’s official partnership with Lean Made Simple Check it out! Links: Book a Toyota UK Tour: https://tlmc.toyotauk.com/ Send a voice message/question to the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple Eight Wastes Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hTsSJdhHI

In their roles at Fastcap, Kolbe Akers & Lukas Holland are on the front-line in the war against waste. In today’s episode we talk about: Kolbe having a front-row seat to his father’s lean journey How Lukas went from “academic lean” to becoming a “lean maniac” The power of asking people what bothers them Removing places to hide Focusing on people over profit And their favourite lean improvements from over the years Check it out! Links: FastCap website: https://www.fastcap.com/ Email address: info@fastcap.com. Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Web link for this episode: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/kolbe-akers-lukas-holland

Norm O’Hara is the General Manager of a sporting equipment factory based in Southern China. He’s also a lean manufacturing enthusiast who’s excited to share the improvements he and his team are making on their journey toward organizational excellence. In this episode we talk about: Treating improvement videos as a product Cultural challenges of applying lean in China (And how to overcome them) The power of building a physical bridge between two factories Reducing the number of people moving items around from 40 to 4 And his desire to run a “world-class business” Check it out! Links: Playlist with 119 improvement videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzZiVpXQCLUmIUeg5Tx4P3BbBtfIfRsUt LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/normohara?originalSubdomain=cn Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time. In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses “The Eight Wastes of Lean.” Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about: Why waste isn't just the stuff that goes in the bin How overproduction is "the mother of all wastes" Getting called out by the former president of Lexus for having "muda” The trap of organising your waste to make it look lean Examples and stories that will help you see waste in your own organisation And the biggest waste of all that nobody ever thinks about Check it out! https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/the-eight-wastes Links: Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Eight Wastes Print-Out from Seating Matters: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BYuPH-TYz2ghv8gwUNHahHDbZqszoTiY/view?usp=sharing Send a voice message/question to the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple

Brendan McGurgan and Claire Colvin are the co-founders of Simple Scaling, a company that empowers leaders to 10x their business through books, podcasts, live events and accelerator programs. In this episode we talk about: The role lean plays in scaling Why systems will set you free How we’re all in the business of building people Modeling the behaviour we want to see in others And the biggest barrier that stops people from scaling Check it out! Links: Simple Scaling Website: https://simplescaling.com/ ScaleX Insider Podcast: https://simplescaling.com/our-podcasts Upcoming ScaleX Summit: https://scalexsummit.com/book-now Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time. In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the 3S's: Sweep, Sort & Standardize. Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about: Why clean and lean are NOT the same thing The power of starting the day with an improvement mindset What a digital 3S looks like How to stop going around in circles and solve problems forever Making standardising an easy and fun process And how to start 3Sing in your organisation (heads-up: don't roll it all out at once!) Check it out. Links: Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Send a voice message/question to the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple

Michael Althoff is the founder of Yellotools and a pioneer for LEAN transformation in companies, organizations and private environments. In today’s episode we talk about: Why you should love the things your customer hates What baking cookies has to do with lean Learning from each others mistakes And how to “shortcut” your lean journey Check it out! Links: Michael’s website: https://www.michael-althoff.com/en/" Yellotools website: https://www.yellotools.com/shop/en/ Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time. In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "One-Piece Flow!" Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about: Why batching is killing your business Escalators vs elevators How to introduce flow into your personal and professional life A better alternative to “annual team-building exercises” Why you should create a “river of production” The risks involved (and why they’re worth it) And how one-piece flow could change the world. Check it out! Links: Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Send a voice message/question into the show: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple⁠ Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tierney-6237a8199/ Webpage for this episode: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/one-piece-flow

Marc Braun is the CEO of Encouraging Leaders, an executive coach and a keynote speaker. His mission is to help successful leaders become even more successful by identifying and addressing the critical behaviours holding them and their teams back. In this episode he talks about: How the first improvement he made was on himself Why he lost his “bathroom privileges” (And how he got them back) Being called out by a leader early on in his career And the role coaching plays in becoming the leader you want to be Check it out. Links: Marc’s website: https://www.encouragingleaders.com/ Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour P.S. Check out the webpage for this episode with full transcript and video snippets to share at your morning meeting: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/marc-braun-encouraging-leaders