Process Improvement

This book is for people who are serious about how they can improve how their organizations run and how they can make their next large transformation project a success. It is for the process and architecture practitioners who run their programs for years and don’t get the visibility that they deserve. It is for the analysts who want to switch their practices to a data-driven approach (while not forgetting the human contributions in the analysis) and for whom the words “Digital Gemba” sound good.

It's when you're stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it's possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation. Process! will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable.

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection.

In Process-Oriented Hypnosis, internationally recognized psychologist Michael D. Yapko provides clinicians with a new framework for utilizing hypnosis with clients. Yapko encourages clinicians to take a broader perspective, in which patterns rather than individual symptoms are the emphasis of therapy. He offers numerous insights into ways clinicians can home in on the process of how people come to suffer various types of emotional distress.  

Few of us have lived through the kind of suffering Teal Swan endured: 13 years of ritual abuse at the hands of a cult. But all of us have been fractured by trauma in one way or another. Your wounds may be visible as bodily scars; or they may show up in the form of anxiety, depression, or PTSD; or you may simply be struggling in your life for reasons you don’t simply understand. The good news is that you can heal your wounds.

Perhaps you find it difficult to address issues or excess workload with your manager, leading to working yourself to your limits before suffering burnout. Or maybe you have a member of your team or a friend that is struggling with burnout at work, and you want to learn how you can help them.

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious for Leaders is a practical guide for managers, supervisors, business owners, and improvement leaders who want real operational progress without jargon, consultant fog, or overly academic theory. This book shows you how to make work visible, understandable, and sustainable so your team can run with it.

'A memoir of great power and emotional honesty. To read this book is to be in awe of Spraggan's strength in writing it.' Elizabeth Day By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. Growing up in a creative household...

Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process.

A set of three talks given by Dr. Hawkins. Dr. Hawkins explains the difference between sex and making love. He presents sex as an expression of the energy of aliveness and the joy of being. He discusses sex and spiritual conflict, along with guilt, religion, programming, and social belief systems. He describes low-energy and high-energy sex, how to overcome impotence and lack of response, and how to transcend desire so that one is not at the effect of it.

Kaizen is the Sino-Japanese word for "improvement". In business, kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. It also applies to processes that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain. Kaizen focuses on continuous improvement and transforming your life to have the self-discipline to accomplish all set goals. The use of kaizen in business has proven to have very high results. This audiobook explores the history of kaizen, how to incorporate it, and how to use self-discipline.

The Fix Yourself Handbook is heralded as one of the most straight forward, and easy to apply self-help audiobooks. It presents The Process Way of Life, which has helped thousands to live happier, and healthier lives.

Life is full of ups and downs, heartache and pain, and transitions that will cause us to get out of our comfort zone. But just because life can deal you some devastating blows, doesn't mean you have to fall victim to them. The Process of Life is an excellent book to help you get from where you are to where you want to be. By teaching you how to overcome challenges, struggles, and setbacks by responding positively to them.

A high-performing sales force is the backbone of any organization. They give value to a company's products and services, and they carry their brand in the marketplace. There is one consistent problem that many businesses share - finding, hiring, and motivating the best salespeople who will not just make calls and generate leads, but will close deals.

Change Management and Process Improvement are considered two separate disciplines. Change Management initiatives often originate in the human resources department, whereas Process Improvement plans may come from the quality engineering or the project management departments. These departments' agendas, knowledge, mindset, and resource competency differ. However, Change Management approaches and Process Improvement models have much in common.

'Everyone would benefit from reading Judkins, if only because he is so entertaining . . . packed with counterintuitive insights and hard truths' - Psychology Today Make Brilliant Work is an inspiring guide to unlocking your creative potential, showing you the methods and techniques that will...

If you're a business leader, you already know that Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular and powerful business tools in the world today. You also probably know that implementing the process can be more than a little challenging. This step-by-step guide shows you how to customize and apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your own organizational needs, giving you more options, strategies, and solutions than you'll find in any other book on the subject. 

How to Be the Grit in the Oyster delivers a successful model for leading business change in an increasing diverging environment. Change is no longer escapable, businesses are continuously changing yet most transformations fail, often quoted at 75%. This figure has not improved over time. This book, based on the authors experience takes a different path. It asserts that at the core of this failure leaders take little account of the impact of the drive for diversity alongside societal diversification and they have failed to adjust their leadership style and delivery models accordingly.

Sometimes in life, we can’t seem to figure it out. We face what feels like a dead end, unsure of which way to turn—which path to take. It’s a Process was written for those striving to find direction in this crazy world. Dr. Dean uses real-life experiences to inspire thoughtful consideration on how betterment can be attained, and purpose realized.

Memory Techniques for Language Learning is a detailed explanation of how memorization techniques can be used in the study of foreign languages. The advantages of learning a foreign language are explored, including the effect it has on brain health. These techniques help people remember what they are learning and how they can maximize the information that is retained in their memory.