Top Tips to Develop Continuous Improvement

Top Tips to develop Continuous Improvement

 

My colleagues and I have a usual mix of expertise in leadership, business change and high performance teams to help businesses, like yours, to embed continuous improvement into their culture. Here are 10 Top Tips and ways we help make a real impact:

1. Executive leadership coaching on continuous improvement

Work directly with CEOs and senior leaders to develop their mindset around continuous improvement. Help them shift from seeing change as a one-off project to a continuous, everyday practice that enhances performance and culture.

2. High impact leadership workshops

Run interactive sessions for senior teams on fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You can use motorsports, sailing or real world case studies to illustrate the power of marginal gains, teamwork, and adaptability in high-performance environments.

3. Embedding continuous improvement in change leadership

We already work with leaders driving change and help them make continuous improvement part of their DNA, not just something they do during a change or transformation project. Work with them how to measure progress, create feedback loops and sustain improvements.

4. Performance & productivity diagnostics

Use my EXACT process or a tailored version of MAE to assess where businesses are stuck in their performance. Identify gaps in mindset, leadership and culture that prevent continuous improvement and provide a clear roadmap for bridging or fixing them.

5. Continuous improvement offsites & strategy days

Host SLT offsites where leaders get hands-on with improving their culture, processes and ways of working. A mix of challenge, reflection and action planning can help shift their mindset towards long-term iterative progress.

6. Leadership programmes focused on improvement mindset

Our leadership development work can include a stronger emphasis on improvement and how leaders can model, reinforce and sustain continuous improvement in their teams. Cover areas like psychological safety, feedback culture and learning from failure.

7. Fly fishing for improvement

I love fly fishing, and can offer an executive fly-fishing day incorporating a session on continuous improvement. Observing, adjusting and refining technique is a great metaphor for making small, ongoing improvements in business… and fishing.

8. Creating an anti-ghosting culture for better improvement

Since ghosting frustrates me and many others (rightfully so!), we could help businesses improve their accountability, communication and follow-through to reduce frustrations and improve matters. A culture of responsiveness and open feedback is essential for continuous improvement to work.

9. Sports & high-performance case studies in business

Use insights from motorsport, sailing and other high-performance environments to show leaders what continuous improvement looks like in action. How do elite teams refine performance under pressure, and what can businesses learn from that?

10. LinkedIn & thought leadership on continuous improvement

I often share linkedin posts and articles on business, performance and continuous improvement to challenge business leaders on topics like emotional intelligence and difficult conversations. Let’s all share bold, direct insights on why businesses fail to improve and how they can do better.