The Lean Solutions Podcast: Standardized Work for Leaders – Is That a Thing?

In this episode, Deb Coviello and I discuss Leader Standard Work and how best leverage this tool as an Executive Leader: even the creative & innovative process needs Leader Standard work; not to thwart the creative process but to ensure you have enough time for it without burnout. Deb is the founder of Illumination Partners, Author of the book CEO’s Compass – Your Guide to Getting Back on Track and the host of The Drop In CEO Podcast.

In this episode, you will learn:

  • How should Leader Standard Work be used by executive leaders?
  • Where should executive leaders spend their time?
  • The 70/20/10 rule of standard work
  • What should you do when you get busy and cannot stick to your standard work?
  • How should leaders prioritize their decisions?
    • Eisenhower matrix
  • Shiny penny funnel: We see the shiny penny and see possibilities in everything. However, we need to run it through our decision logic funnel to prioritize
  • Accountability partners

About the Guest:

Deb Coviello is the Founder of Illumination Partners and the host of The Drop In CEO podcast. For more than twenty years, she has been transforming businesses from within, elevating the talents of their organizations to new performance levels. Her experience has taught her to put tremendous value on people, whom she considers as the heart of every business.

As The Drop In CEO Deb provides her clients with 25+ years worth of experience and strategy in Quality and Operational Excellence roles combined with her 20 years in the Flavors and Fragrance industry, to identify, assess, and solve the issues that are preventing their business growth. Certified as Lean and Six Sigma Blackbelt in Process Improvement, she has also developed significant leadership insight that “People’’ are your greatest tool in your toolbox. In order to deliver on her promise of offering “peace of mind,” she focuses on utilizing the talents of her client’s team and elevating them to new levels of performance, setting them up to better serve their organization.

When she isn’t transforming businesses from within, Deb is a board member of Women in Flavor & Fragrance Commerce, (WFFC), an avid Curler with the Cincinnati Curling Club, a mother of 3 and resides in Cincinnati Ohio with her Husband Dan of 32 years.

Important Links:

Email: deborah@coviellocm.com

Website: https://dropinceo.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahacoviello/

Drop in CEO Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-in-ceo/id1498953914?ls=1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IlluminationPartnersLLC/

Twitter: @DropinCEO

Instagram: @dropinceo

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