The document provides an overview of Lean leadership and creating adaptive, learning and engaging organizations. It discusses key dimensions such as engaging employees, promoting learning, effective leadership, and improving processes. These dimensions are measured using a diagnostic tool called Climetrics to assess an organization's work climate. The work climate is found to predict performance, profitability, and the ability to adapt. Case studies are presented showing how organizations have transformed their work climates and achieved operational excellence with greater adaptability.
How to develop adaptive, learning and engaging organisations
1. Gathering customer
intelligence data
Collaboration
Employee influence
on products and services
H ow well we
respond to customers
Respectful
Innovating ideas
for customers
Organisational
Employee influence Understanding
on other functions
Sharing Intelligence
with the team
Customer
Trustworthiness Purpose
Challenging
Freedom and
decision making
Employee influence
on managing practices
Courage
Employee influence
on end-to-end processes
Sharing Intelligence
Across the function
Performance
Sharing Intelligence
Management
with top/senior
And Measurement
management
Leadership
2. How to develop Lean Leadership: Creating
adaptive, learning and engaging organisations.
Stephen Parry
Author of Sense and Respond
Senior Partner at Lloyd Parry
@Leanvoices
10. Gathering customer
intelligence data
Collaboration
Employee influence
on products and services
H ow well we
respond to customers
Respectful
Innovating ideas
for customers
Organisational
Employee influence Understanding
on other functions
Sharing Intelligence
with the team
Customer
Trustworthiness Purpose
Challenging
Freedom and
decision making
Employee influence
on managing practices
Courage
Employee influence
on end-to-end processes
Sharing Intelligence
Across the function
Performance
Sharing Intelligence
Management
with top/senior
And Measurement
management
Leadership
39. There can be no end-to-end transparency unless
there is top-to-bottom trust.
40. Making the pretence, reality and cost visible: ‘Your baby is ugly’
With acknowledgement to Landmark Education and the Landmark Forum
41. Pretence, reality and cost: but what’s the benefit?
Pretence
Reality
Cost
What we say its like
What it is really like
What it costs us to pretend
Caring for people.
Giving people
opportunities.
We are coping, everything
is OK.
We are doing a good job.
We work as a team.
We listen to people.
Working to the numbers.
Ticking the boxes.
Manipulating the numbers.
Back-stabbing.
Lying.
Covering up.
No trust.
Blaming.
Cheating.
Play the game.
With acknowledgement to Landmark Education and the Landmark Forum
Low self-esteem
Futility.
No fulfilment.
Withdrawing.
No fun.
Loss of honesty
Loss of integrity.
Loss of repeat business.
Customer dissatisfaction.
Little or no innovation.
Cynicism.
Missed opportunities.
Fear of being found out.
42. Sharing intelligence across
the function
Sharing intelligence with
other functions
Sharing intelligence with
top/senior management
I
Performance management
J
Adaptive leadership
K
Responding to customer
issues
L
Implementing ideas to
better serve customers
M
Employee influence on
products and services
N
Employee influence on
managing practices
O
Employee influence on
other functions
P
Employee influence on endto-end processes
Transformation objective
Mass
Specialisation
Mass
Customisation
Mass
Production
A
Climate Strength
Organisational
understanding
H
Mass
Adaptation
Sharing intelligence with the
team
G
Improving
Customer -intelligence
gathering
F
Leading
Customer -facing activity
E
Learning
B
D
Engaging
Freedom and decision
making
C
Development, testing and run Local government IT
Before Transformation
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
Climetrics® Climatograph
M
N
O
P
43. Sharing intelligence across
the function
Sharing intelligence with
other functions
Sharing intelligence with
top/senior management
I
Performance management
J
Adaptive leadership
K
Responding to customer
issues
L
Implementing ideas to
better serve customers
M
Employee influence on
products and services
N
Employee influence on
managing practices
O
Employee influence on
other functions
P
Employee influence on endto-end processes
Transformation objective
Mass
Specialisation
Mass
Customisation
Mass
Production
A
Climate Strength
Organisational
understanding
H
Mass
Adaptation
Sharing intelligence with the
team
G
Improving
Customer-intelligence
gathering
F
Leading
Customer-facing activity
E
Learning
B
D
Engaging
Freedom and decision
making
C
Development, testing and run Local government IT
After Transformation 18 Months
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
Climetrics® Climatograph
M
N
O
P
44. Change resistance is directly proportional to the
lack of leadership.
Heroic leadership is a sign of Lean leadership
failure not triumph.