Continuous Improvement 4 Life

How to respond to a crisis

Rick Heyland and his guest Mike Schlappi, 4 time Olympian with 2 Golds and 2 Bronze medals discuss how to respond to this worldwide coronavirus crisis. As a teenager, Mike was shot by accident by his best friend and was paralyzed for life. He recalls feeling sorry for himself for several days and how his life was completely turned upside down. He shares his very personal experiences on how he found forgiveness, hope, responsibility and even opportunity out of a personal crisis. You can reach Mike at www.mikeschlappi.com or 1-801-898-1218. It is our hope that this podcast will help give you the mindset to overcome your challenges in this worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

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Productivity and Connectivity while working remotely

Rick Heyland invites guests; John Shewfelt, Roger Laing, Rob Gulbronson and Lara Mickel from RLG International on this timely podcast as the world trends to working remotely. With over 100 man years of remote working experience, today’s group provides successful tips and insights on how to stay connected and maintain productivity in the new norm.

Enhancing Corporate and Family Culture during the Coronavirus Pandemic with Adrian Gostick

Rick Heyland is joined by New York Times Best Selling Author Adrian Gostick. Adrian is ranked as #3 on the list of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Leadership and #9 in Organizational Culture and is a sought-after keynote speaker around the world. Adrian provides timely advice on how to enhance your business culture as based on his recently published book, “Leading with Gratitude – Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results.” Rick also shares RLG International’s “Top 10+” list of things to do to enhance business culture during a crisis.  For more information go:  rlg.to/ci4Life

Develop your own Personal Growth Strategy

If you were a stock, would people be investing in you or would they be divesting?

Rick Heyland and Nathan Goodfellow talk about the importance of developing a personal growth strategy to accomplish your goals and ambitions. Using the analogy of “personal investing,” Rick establishes the importance of properly defining the problem and measuring the benchmarks so you can fully analyze and research each area of your goal to come up with a winning growth strategy. Nathan shares how he accomplished a drastic improvement in his health 3 years ago by losing 50 pounds through exercise and improved nutrition. These examples help illustrate the importance of not giving up on your goals and instead analyzing the problem to come up with a personal growth strategy!

Organizational Learning through Real Time Lessons Learned

Dave Berlando, Senior Performance Coach with RLG joins Rick Heyland to review an integrated learning system that helped Dave's latest client achieve a 10-day improvement on a recent maintenance shutdown.  Dave and Rick share the details of RLG's RTLL™ (Real-Time Lessons Learned).  For more details and success stories with Real-Time Lessons Learned go to: www.rlginternational.com/insights/ci4life

Building a Learning Organization with Carlos Gamio from Shell Oil

Rick Heyland and special guests, Carlos Gamio (SMPO TA Event Manager with Shell) and Scott McKenzie (Vice President and Business Unit Leader for RLG Int’l) discuss, “Keys to Developing a Learning Organization”. They will speak to  some success factors of organization learning and highlight one of those factors, the “after-action review” that helped drive tremendous learning events for a complex maintenance project at one of their refineries. For more details on AAR's go to rlg.to/CI4LAAR

Join the 20% who accomplish their New Year's Resolutions with the ideas shared by 3 special guests

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)

Faster and Better!

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. 

Reading improves quality of life by 20% and reduces stress by 68%.

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.

Gratitude; A Critical Strategy for Sustainable Continuous Improvement

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.