Lean Blog Interviews

Coach at www.TheLearningFactor.ca Joining us for Episode #467 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Tracy Defoe. She is an adult education consultant and researcher specializing in workplace education. For parts of the last 10 years, she has been puzzling over the challenges of participation and leadership in continuous improvement.   She has taught communication, writing, teamwork, and cross-cultural communication as well as teaching methods to adults in colleges, universities, and the workplace. A regular consultant to business, labour, and government, Tracy is also an advocate for plain language and clear design. Questions, Notes, and highlights: Her website Your origin story for C.I., Lean, Kata…? How to navigate the distribution of varied mix-level knowledge / experience in a room when it's not 1×1? How much can somebody absorb at once when learning? “I don't know Yeti” – the mascot for Kata School Cascadia The benefit of making learning fun? Starter Kata questions – when is it OK to move beyond the rig