The Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast

It's Episode 102 and the highlight is our interview with Maribel Topf the Division Manager of Continuous Improvement at Snap-on Tools author of the new book Process Alchemy–she put all her insights into print and we’re going to get a few gems from her. For Hot Apps, we’ll cover an app that might help you find space for yourself in your day. And then we’ll dig into the question of timing–what happens when we wait for just the right moment?

 

0:00 - Intro

1:07 - What's on the menu?

1:49 - Hot Apps

• Headspace

8:39 - Q&A

• Do It Scared!

   

12:58 -Featured Guest

• Maribel Topf

• Process Alchemy

40:54 - Upcoming Events

• June Webinar: Rich Data, Poor Data: Elevating Your Data Quality

• "5S Baby" Spoof Lean Rap Video Reveal Party

Resources:

• Multiple-award-winning book, "Picture Yourself A Leader"

• Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

 

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It's Episode 101 and the highlight is Tracy an Elisabeth's interview with Tracy Minutolo—Head of Operational Excellence at the technology health company Hologic. We’ll find out how Tracey morphed from a microbiologist into a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. For Hot Apps, we’ll give you our take on a serious rival for ChatGPT—or a perfect companion for Google—or both. And then we’ll dig into a question that came up recently about our negativity bias—is it a force for good or evil?

In the meantime, fill that mug and get comfy!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:37 - What's on the menu?
• 2:23 - Hot Apps
  • Perplexity
• 9:42 - Q&A
  • Negative bias - a force for Good?
• 16:00 -Featured Guest
  • Tracey Minutolo
• 38:48 - Upcoming Events
  • Webinar: Good Data, Poor Data: Elevating Your Data Quality
  • "5S Baby" Spoof Lean Rap Video Reveal Party
• Resources:
  • Multiple-award-winning book, "Picture Yourself A Leader"
  • Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

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Today’s highlight is whisky cocktails! Or the reason behind our whiskey cocktails. In a crossover celebration of 100 Cafe episodes, Tracy and Elisabeth invited their good friends Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Whiskey podcast to mark this cafe milestone. They're primed to talk all things podcasting. And for a special Hot Apps segment, these four will let you in on their current favorites, so stay tuned for some solid work tips …but with a twist, or possibly a garnish!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:52 - What's on the menu?
• 21:06 - Hot Apps
  • Trello
  • Kainexus
  • Asana
  • Evernote
  • Credly
• 14:49 - Featured Guest
  • My Favorite Mistakes podcast
  • Lean Blog podcast
  • People Solve Problems podcast
  • Picture Yourself a Leader book
  • The Mistakes That Make Us book
  • People Solve Problems book
  • Podcast feed at LeanWhiskey.com or leanblog.org/leanwhiskey or jflinch.com/leanwhiskey
• 52:25 - Upcoming Events

Resources:

• New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

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It's Episode 99 and the highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth's interview with Allison Kestenbaum, the Supervisor of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education at UC San Diego Health. She just got her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification so we dig into the intersection of continuous improvement and Spiritual care–that’s a new one for everyone out there. For Hot Apps, we’ll cover an app that gives you credit—and we all need credit and recognition. Then we’ll cover a book that recently got some credit and the author just happens to be one of the hosts of this podcast—so stay tuned for gold-medal reveal!

In the meantime, make yourself some Just-in-time coffee and let’s roll!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:15 - What's on the menu?
• 2:06 - Hot Apps

  • Credly

     

  • TKMG Academy

     

  • UC San Diego Extended Studies Lean Six Sigma Portfolio

• 8:52 - Q&A

  • Gold Award Winner for Best Business Book of 2023

• 14:49 - Featured Guest

  • Allison Kestenbaum

• 41:25 - Upcoming Events
  • March Webinar: Game On: Unlocking Lean Innovation through Deliberate Play

Resources:

• "Picture Yourself A Leader"—Winner of the International Impact Book Award for Best Leadership Book
• New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

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It's Episode 98 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with Lifesharing’s Executive Team—Jeff Trageser and Mike Vazquez. Lifesharing is a nonprofit arm of UC San Diego Health dedicated to organ procurement and—lucky for everyone—they're steeped in continuous improvement. For Hot Apps, we’ll cover a networking app you’re probably aware of, you might even be using, but are you making the most of it? And for Q&A, we’ll discuss the topic of work relationships. Are you a “just-the-facts ma'am” Joe Friday type? If asking people about themselves feels like “fluff” —are you hamstringing your own progress? Tracy and Elisabeth get to the bottom of that and more!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:18 - What's on the menu?
• 2:10 - Hot Apps
  • LinkedIn
• 17:19 - Q&A
• Doing FLUFF
  • Join the conversation!
• 25:35 - Featured Guest Intro
  • Jeffry Trageser & Michael Vazquez of LifeSharing
• 56:45 - Upcoming Events
  • February Webinar 2/28: "Public Relations for a Problem-Solving Culture: Storytelling at Work"

Resources:

• "Picture Yourself A Leader"—Winner of the International Impact Book Award for Best Leadership Book
• New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

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Link to the video version of this podcast: https://www.jitcafe.com/post/lean-life-sharing-making-organ-donation-work-with-jeff-trageser-and-mike-vazquez

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It's Episode 97 and the  highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with Cheryl Jekiel, the Founder of Lean Leadership Center, get the scoop on her latest book, Let Go To Lead. Cheryl has a deep background in helping managers go from overpowering to empowering.  For Hot Apps, we’re going to delve into an app that’s been referred to as your "adjunct brain.” It’s a way to hold onto all that stuff you learn and access it when you need it it.  For Q&A, we’ll discuss how to take advantage of an age-old truism–”Necessity is the mother of invention”—If that’s true, how do we conjure "necessity" when we want to jumpstart innovation?

Let's kick this year off!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 01:24 - What's on the Menu?
• 02:30 - Hot Apps
  • Evernote
• 12:03 - Q&A
  • "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"
• 20:55 - Featured Guest
  • Cheryl Jekiel
• 51:34 - Upcoming Events
  • Webinar: "Public Relations for a Problem-Solving Culture: Storytelling at Work"

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It's Episode 96 and the highlight is Tracy and Elisabeth's interview with Dannette Nelson, the Owner of Stone Soup Diversity. Dannette brings her startup experience and a little Lean Six Sigma sauce to the diversity conversation which has given her tactical insights on ensuring growth. For Hot Apps, we’ll end the year with a little Artificial Intelligence duel between two rivals that offer online meeting summaries. And for Q&A, we’ll tackle the untapped. People all around us know stuff—stuff we probably want to know. Stuff we need to know. But we often miss what’s in front of us. How do we counteract that?

2023 signing off—See you next year at the cafe!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 01:23 - What's on the Menu?
• 02:08 - Hot Apps
  • OtterPilot
• 09:13 - Q&A
  • "I Know Stuff"
• 15:18 - Featured Guest
  • Dannette Nelson
• 44:50 - Upcoming Events
  • "Picture Yourself A Leader"—Winner of the International Impact Book Award for Best Leadership Book
  • New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

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It's episode 95 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with Rich Sheridan, the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations. Rich’s ingeniously Lean-incognito workplace sparks joy in all who enter. Menlo recovered from Covid with their best year to date, and Rich explains why. For Hot Apps, the AI exploration continues. This time it's some free help with project presentations. And for Q&A it's the Praise Paradox. We all want to be acknowledged, but we don’t often see ourselves as the source of praise for others. Why is that, and what can we do about it?

 

• 0:00 - Intro
• 01:23 - What's on the Menu?
• 02:32 - Hot Apps
  • SlidesAI.io (Chrome Extension)
• 10:09 - Q&A
  • "How do you handle the Praise Paradox?"
• 19:58 - Featured Guest
  • Rich Sheridan
• 46:46 - Upcoming Events
  • New Workshop 10/24: "Value Stream Mapping Unleashed"
  • October Webinar 10/19: "Causal Reasoning: Lean Special Sauce for Root Cause Analysis"
  • New Bestselling Book, "Picture Yourself A Leader"
  • New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

 

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It's Episode 94 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with Krista Schulte, the Assistant Director of Operational Excellence for the University of Michigan. Krista gave us a glimpse into how Lean gains traction in higher education. For Hot Apps, we’ll delve into Artificial Intelligence again–and the results are real–and really useful. We’ll tell you how to use it for problem-solving change management. And for Q&A, we touch on the temptation to do things ourselves even when we sacrifice collaboration.

 

• 0:00 - Intro
• 01:33 - What's on the Menu?
• 02:21 - Hot Apps
  • Writesonic
• 12:33 - Q&A
  • "What is the cost of working in isolation?"
• 17:59 - Featured Guest
  • Krista Schulte
• 41:50 - Upcoming Events
  • September Webinar: "Value Stream Mapping: Charting the Course & Unveiling the Power"
  • New Bestselling Book, "Picture Yourself A Leader"
  • New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

 

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It's episode 93 and the highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with the internet doyenne, Deondra Wardelle. We explore the intersection she’s created between Vision, Strategy, and Continuous Improvement—and maybe tiaras For Hot Apps, Deondra is sitting in as our guest reviewer to showcase an app that helps you with the elusive goal of staying on top of everything and get stuff done with other people. And for Q&A, we touch on an issue that came up during our recent livestream session–how do leaders form bonds with workers when workloads seem to get in the way? It's an iced coffee day at the Cafe!

 

• 0:00 - Intro
• 01:11 - What's on the Menu?
• 02:11 - Hot Apps
  • Basecamp
• 16:25 - Q&A
  • "How can leaders form relationships with their staff when workloads seem to get in the way?"
• 22:05 - Featured Guest
  • Deondra Wardelle
• 50:10 - Upcoming Events
  • August Webinar: "The Triple Win: Designing Work that Delivers for Everyone"
  • Lean Leadership Workshop at UC San Diego in August
  • New Bestselling Book, "Picture Yourself A Leader"
  • New Lean Parody Video, "Baby Got Tools!"

 

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