Kaizen

Toyota has a great reputation when it comes to its manufacturing processes. One of the reasons for this is they take a given role in the process, and they’ll have the employee lay out the steps in their job in as many micro-steps as possible. Then they’ll eliminate any steps that are intermediary or unimportant. They will then go back to the employee and ask them to streamline further – basically creating a manual for training other people with minimal steps needed. Toyota has been doing this consistently since it started. They refer to it as kaizen – continual improvement.

Map out your work days over the week and see how you can improve.