Kaizen Success Stories
Real Manufacturing Results. One Kaizen at a Time
Explore real-world Kaizen success stories showing how manufacturing teams solved critical problems, improved performance, and created sustainable results.
The Audience That Wouldn’t Leave
Conference attendees were free to come and go throughout the day. Instead, most stayed for every workshop. Discover how interactive facilitation transformed a room full of strangers into a learning community that didn't want the day to end.
The Week They Kept Moving the Goalposts
I expected a week of management training. Instead, I spent five days having the rules changed, my plans disrupted, and my assumptions challenged. It became one of the most valuable leadership lessons of my career and one that still shapes every Kaizen event I facilitate today.
Shining Like a Star
Kaizen events can be life-changing for team members. This is the story of Steve, who grew so much during the week that his co-workers almost didn’t recognize him.
Experimenting in Europe
I was asked to co-facilitate a regional cost-reduction session with my Armstrong mentor, Fred, in Europe. He had facilitated many of these sessions over the years with great success. I was excited for the opportunity to work with him and tour around countries I wasn’t familiar with.
Zigging and Zagging Along the Way
I developed a Kaizen facilitator training program for CITY Furniture. Once I realized I could train others in facilitation techniques I had developed over many years of experience, I decided to share the program with my network.
How to Drive Teams to Success with Effective Facilitation
The best facilitators look like they’re doing nothing at all. The team is driving toward a solution, being creative, working together, and having fun. What’s the facilitator doing, just taking credit for the team’s hard work? As it turns out, the easier it looks, the harder it is.