Gemba
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Oct 30, 2026
Zach WhiteHOST
Sometimes the most valuable thing you can do is bring your mentor into your work environment.
Zach WhiteHOST
Go to the Gemba.
Zach WhiteHOST
Go look at the work itself and get their insights, their coaching, their mentorship, their advice right there in the thing that matters most.
Zach WhiteHOST
Mistake one is you don't have the mentors.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
You're not getting interrupted.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
You're, I mean, I would still do like Gemba walks, safety checks, things like that on the off shift, but it's not a large group of people walking through the area, interviewing you while you pause at your station, right? So I think that makes a big difference in there too.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
But yeah, there is, there's just something about, I also found that I got more truthful answers to your point when you're like, nobody's watching, good, bad, and different.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
I got more truthful answers on why the SOP, the job description, needed to be updated.
15 MINS LATER
Mitch TuckerGUEST
Right.
Mitch TuckerGUEST
And you root cause it within, you know, a couple of hours because, you know, because you're talking to the right people.
Mitch TuckerGUEST
Again, you've got to go to Gemba, you've got to talk to people, see it for yourself, and things will be significantly better.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
Mitch, if you could go backwards, you've got all these roles, all this experience, and you can talk to 25-year-old you, what advice do you give yourself?
Chris BackousHOST
Yeah.
Chris BackousHOST
And I remember the first time that I stepped out on the Gemba with you and met some of the team and it became very clear to me, this is absolutely about processes, not about people, because the people are some of the most caring, compassionate and dedicated.
Chris BackousHOST
And I think what I saw was amazing people trying to do the best work with people overcomplicated processes, waste barriers to, um, overcome.
Chris BackousHOST
And so I immediately felt their passion about making it better.
33 MINS LATER
Chris BackousHOST
I think that continues to bring people's trust in the process back.
Chris BackousHOST
Would you agree?
Amanda RowleyGUEST
I absolutely agree and I think the important thing is not forgetting around the importance of maintaining presence on the Gemba, connecting with staff in your areas.
Amanda RowleyGUEST
It was a few weeks following the 3P event and I was thinking, having had previous sort of events where you turn things around and you see change quite quickly, oh, is it all sort of, how are we gonna maintain that momentum? And I did a positive leadership rounds and I met some staff who actually hadn't been on the event, but they worked in, it was in our early pregnancy unit.
Christian RayGUEST
I think it's we're all trying to figure it out.
Christian RayGUEST
And it's it's moving so quickly that we may not have time to to get into what I refer to as the Gemba, where the work is actually done and the value is actually made, you At some point, the whole process needs to be blown up.
Christian RayGUEST
And a lot of times it's a lot easier way to fix a problem than to try to take a solution like AI and band-aid a process together.
Christian RayGUEST
And that's why I always go back to that key measure of success is what are we actually trying to improve? What is our end result that we can all agree on? And is this solution actually having an impact on it? Because The few cases where we do have good, clean data and we're able to show, hey, before AI, after AI, and even after AI, look at parallel case studies where AI is here, but it's not here.
Alfonso AlbaisaGUEST
They're just different.
Alfonso AlbaisaGUEST
An engineer has a different Maverick nature than a designer and myself, a Cuban designer, especially, but I just remember all of the interesting discussions and all of my mistakes, not about design, but the things about culture that I say something or do something and the Gemba and all of this.
Alfonso AlbaisaGUEST
So I feel a bit like a book that I didn't finish reading.
Alfonso AlbaisaGUEST
So give
Dave McCauleyGUEST
a solution in green when you finally fix it.
Lorne RubisHOST
And they have the Gemba Walk, which is to go to the actual place, the actual people, the actual time.
Lorne RubisHOST
They have an employee ownership program.
Lorne RubisHOST
You talked about the internal development.
Dave LaribeeHOST
That's one failure mode that I see.
Dave LaribeeHOST
And not necessarily doing the Gemba walk, going to the place, all the Deming stuff and trying to understand what are the contexts of this team versus this team.
Dave LaribeeHOST
OK, this seems more legacy.
Dave LaribeeHOST
This seems more Greenfield.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
It is the operating fact and it runs against the whole vocabulary we built the profession on.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
Dashboards, line of sight, visibility, seeing the system, Gemba.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
Oh my God, don't get me started on it.
Venki PadmanabhanHOST
Every one of those words assumes the clearest view is from above.
Tony KhanGUEST
In Japanese, there's a word,
Greg StoryHOST
Gemba.
Tony KhanGUEST
Gemba.
Tony KhanGUEST
Now it's internationally known.
Tony KhanGUEST
So that's what I do.
Tony KhanGUEST
Toyota.
Tony KhanGUEST
Toyota way or Kaizen.
Tony KhanGUEST
Go to the Gemba first.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
you know, engineering change orders and, Maintenance requests
Sheila StaffordGUEST
and PPE requests and Gemba walks and 5S.
Sheila StaffordGUEST
How cool would it be to do Gemba walks with your team? Oh my gosh, yeah.
Devin FroschheiserHOST
Like your actual team that's doing the job or
Sheila StaffordGUEST
5S.
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