How do you counter peoples fatigue to Continuous Improvement?

PDCA - Plan Do Check Act is a never ending circle. Whatever technique is launched people become enthused and engaged but how do you keep it fresh and stop your people from becoming tired of effort after effort after effort? Especially as it directly affects their working environment. One technique is to ensure that those who have identified and implemented the gains get rewarded by recognition. Even in times of cuts do not take the biscuits away from those who remain to make it happen.

What have your experiences been?

Next we'll look at Kaizen and the magnitude a 30sec improvement each day can make

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1. Feb 16, 2012 4:33 PM (in response to Tom@Bbite)
Re: How do you counter peoples fatigue to Continuous Improvement?

A raise always helps.

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2. Mar 24, 2012 10:42 AM (in response to Tom@Bbite)
Re: How do you counter peoples fatigue to Continuous Improvement?

you can`t maintain an initial enthusiasm without maintenance, it Will wane.
I find that breaking a large project up into smaller, single, testable steps fills the requirement for me.
sure you could get someone all hyped up about running a marathon of 26 miles and how cool it will be, but when I think 26 miles, I cringe and wouldn`t even start it!
but if I think after 2 miles we go to This Pub and have a drink, 3 miles later we stop off for some of my fave food, a mile ofter that we go to a book store etc... before you know it 26 miles is done and you could probably do more!

a bit like that saying that Happiness is the Journey, not the Destination.

I`v perhaps not worded this too well, but I hope you see where I`m comming from here

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