{"id":3344,"date":"2018-04-09T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2018-04-09T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:55:02","slug":"continual-change-versus-continual-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Continual change versus continual improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continual change and continual improvement are not the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All too often, leaders focus on continual change not improvement. Continual change leads to: ambiguity, variation, stress, waste, loss of value, and customer and employee dissatisfaction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continual improvement, however, helps bring about: clarity, new knowledge and learning, a reduction in variation which leads to increased value that flows toward the customer, additional resources, and improved customer\/staff satisfaction. (the list goes on)<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon leaders, throw out the terminology &#8220;change management.&#8221; Your staff and customers see right through it. Instead seek continual improvement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continual change and continual improvement are not the same.&nbsp; All too often, leaders focus on continual change not improvement. Continual change leads to: ambiguity, variation, stress, waste, loss of value, and customer and employee dissatisfaction.&nbsp; Continual improvement, however, helps bring about: clarity, new knowledge and learning, a reduction in variation which leads to increased value<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=3344\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Continual change versus continual improvement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=3344\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Continual change versus continual improvement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Continual change and continual improvement are not the same.&nbsp; All too often, leaders focus on continual change not improvement. 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