When you have standard (routine) meetings you need to be prepared. Your team need to be prepared too. I see many of these meetings go through the motions and not really add any value to the day. How are yours? Here are some quick tips to reinvigorate your meetings if you aren't getting the results you want.

Continuous improvement needs time. Isn't that a revelation? It is a challenge for many of us to work out how to juggle our day to day obligations with our desire to improve how our business performs. For many of us our expectations of how fast we can progress is unrealistic and this can lead to frustration and eventually the stalling of our improvement projects.

That's a great question isn't it? Many times we get ourselves into conversations where we almost get convinced that there is no issue to resolve, no problem that needs fixing. But, we have to remember why we started the conversation in the first place.

I see many business improvement plans on my journeys. Many of them have a high level feel to them, general statements of intent rather than action plans. Are yours like this? If the answer is yes, then perhaps it is time to 'explode the details'!

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A number of years ago I used to have a voluntary role with my local Youth Offending Team. It was a very rewarding use of my time as I got to see young people make constructive changes in their lives. There was an interesting phrase that I picked up during my time there, 'minimisation'. Its effect is prevalent in businesses that aren't getting ahead with their improvement goals too.