We all want change, whether it comes to personal or professional life. We may want to lose weight, spend more time with children, increase the company's profit, get more satisfied customers.

Of course, we always find some buts. We make excuses to superiors, lack of time, postpone the implementation deadline. As a result, we end up in marginal situations, we are forced to take radical measures.

One cause may be trying to make too big changes at once (we take too big a bite). Big changes arouse great resistance, leading to them being put off and procrastination* (“I'll start when...”). The situation doesn't get any better, the problems pile up like a snowball until they completely overwhelm us and we have to make an unpleasant radical cut.

What is Kaizen?

Kaizen is a way to prevent this situation. It is a method of continuous improvement through small steps. These small steps create only negligible resistance, which is easy to overcome (e.g. I do one squat a day instead of the dream fifty). The mind gradually gets used to it, we form a habit, and after some time we find that a change in our life that we could not imagine has come true.

Kaizen in the corporate environment

Although we often see well-defined processes (the way of working) in companies, their innovation takes place mostly in a reactive, uncontrolled manner and in large leaps and bounds (e.g. forced restructuring of the company due to poor results resulting from failure to adapt to changing market conditions). There is a lack of continuous improvement in everything that the company's employees do, built into their daily way of working, thinking and corporate culture.

How to do that?

In our Virtual course We will introduce you to a practical way to effectively start making a change. We will offer you instructions and measures that will enable you to implement changes in your personal life, company or work team. We will talk more about overcoming resistance to change and introduce practical tools such as e.g. Retrospective or Card for the Day to help you with the introduction of Kaizen.

If you are interested in help and support on the journey of personal or team change, then please feel free to contact us at napiste.nam@rainfellows.cz or at any of the phone numbers in of our contacts.

*Note: You can read more about procrastination and fighting it in the book End of procrastination