I have been practicing Lean for 4 months now and love every minute of it.
When I meet friends or strangers who ask what I do, I try to share my passion for Lean. Usually my explantion is long-winded and technical which cause eyes to glaze-over. When I try to be brief, they think I am a person who goes in and eliminates jobs. Neither experience really captures what I do.
So I would like to question my readers for advice. How do you describe implementing Lean in 60 seconds or less to someone outside of work?
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Three words: “process improvement consultant”. If that raises an eyebrow, I tell them I focus on Lean manufacturing practices which emphasizes the involvement of every person in the company, which usually gets a question of “how do you manage to do that?”
If you start in with “Lean Manufacturing Consultant”, you usually get one of three responses: 1) eye glazing, 2) eye rolling or 3) eye’ve done that!
Bryan Lund
thanks for your comment Bryan! I was able to use your advice this weekend and didn’t get the glazed over look once!