Managing the human side of process improvement is often key to the success of any Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement effort (heck, some say it’s 80% of the battle).

You can create the best process in the world, but if the people who must engage in that process don’t do so, you might as just toss all your time and money out the window.

Here are five “street smart” tactics you aren’t likely to find in the textbooks.  Each is covered by a short video in separate blog posts below.  You can also read my article about all 5 tips right here.

1. Understand the need for change management

2. Start early on your change efforts

3. Select a change management method to use

4. Integrate change management into your overall improvement approach

5. Uncover resistance to change so you can manage it

For even more tips on managing change, download one of our free white papers.

And to learn more about the leading method for process improvement, click here.

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