Continuous Improvement 4 Life

Rick Heyland and his guests - Tracy Pond, J.R. Hansen and Parker Jones - take on the challenge of helping you accomplish your personal goals and New Year's Resolutions. The processes, tools and skills shared by them in this episode will help you accomplish your 2020 aspirations! (go to www.ci4life.org for a list of the books and references listed in this podcast)

Rick Heyland and RLG's Mike Nystrom (former US Navy Process Improvement Director) discuss how to drive 300% to 1000% improvements in key business processes with "faster and better". Mike shares how he applied the principles of Value stream mapping combined with RLG's Operating Rhythm to create a massive culture and performance change in a financial services company.

It's December and a great time to start your personal year-end review.  Let's start with reviewing the best books of 2019.  What were the best books?  What are the benefits of reading (listening) for personal development? Rick Heyland reviews the top 3 books of his closest "top reading" associates.  For more information and research visit RLG International at rlg.to/CI4Life  where you will find "CI4Life" in the Insights section.

Rick Heyland reviews the research on the value of gratitude and positive recognition for the individual and in the workplace. Increased gratitude has 31 benefits to your emotional, social, personality, career and health. He also shares eight (8) strategies to improve the amount of gratitude in your life and the workplace.

Rick Heyland reviews the research on how the great become great.  Was Tiger Woods, Jack Welch, Warren Buffet and Jerry Rice born with greatness or did they develop it through hard work (practice) and excellent coaching and mentoring?

Rick Heyland and Rob Gulbronson (RLG International VP and Business unit leader) discuss 5 rules to unlock innovation in your workforce.  Most of the research and writings around innovation are good, but generic and don't offer concrete solutions for a Leader to innovate in the workplace.  Rick Presents 5 simple but pragmatic rules for any team to create innovation that impacts the bottom-line.

Rick Heyland (RLG International EVP) and Bill Ambrose (ex-Mammoet Industries President and ex-Transocean SVP) discuss the art of the business Turnaround. Bill shares his 5 step process for turning around a large brownfield capital project program.

Rick Heyland's special guests include; Susan Sharp VP- Sinclair Oil, Carina Gillenwater- VP- Southwestern Energy and Ana Ximenes- VP- RLG International. They share valuable leadership lessons over their distinguished careers.  They also share their insights into how to promote and mentor more female leaders.

Rick Heyland reviews the importance of weekly game planning to help focus and accomplish our most important goals.  Go to www.ci4life.org for a free download of the weekly game planning tool.

Improve your performance, employee ownership and positive accountability by facilitating a monthly business review that promotes “the great reversal” in meeting reporting and effectiveness. James Bowzer (ex-Marathon Oil and Baytex Executive) and Roger Laing (RLG VP and Business Unit leader) share their passion, enthusiasm and insights for the leader who wants to create a powerful monthly business review.