NEWS & INSIGHTS

News & Insights

Working out with Kaizen

Save Costs, Improve your Bottom Line with Kaizen Business Methods What is Kaizen?Kaizen is a business improvement concept that means continuousimprovement, step by step change for the better. It involves putting the customer first, where value is defined from the perspective of the customer.Through the Kaizenapproach efficiency is achieved as organisations only build the right

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Working out with Kaizen

Step by Step Change for the Better, Continuous Improvement with Natasha Jolob of Kai-zen

Step by Step Change for the BetterContinuous Improvement with Natasha Jolob of Kai-zenOur founder and director shares how she became qualified to support individuals, the community and businesses to change for the better through inner work – which will then result in change in the outside world.  I lost my mum at an early age

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Step by Step Change for the Better, Continuous Improvement with Natasha Jolob of Kai-zen
Prove and Improve your Social Impact

Prove and Improve your Social Impact

Prove and Improve Your Social Impact The new ‘Be Responsive’ Social Value standard has been launched by Social Value International. This is big news in the world of social impact and we are excited about it. The standard takes the Social Value UK standards a stage further by linking evaluation with planning using a rigorous,

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Prove and Improve your Social Impact

Blog: Social Enterprises that Naturally Improve Mental Health

This year nature was selected as the focus for Mental Health Awareness Week because it is well known that nature is important for mental and emotional health. The Mental Health Foundation sets out tips, podcasts, research, policy, and resources here on its website We wanted to showcase and give a huge shout out to all of those social

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Blog: Social Enterprises that Naturally Improve Mental Health

Blog: Valuable? A Tale of Two Credit Unions

International Credit Union Day is an annual celebration of the credit union movement’s hard work and notable achievements. The theme for this year is ‘inspiring hope for a global community’. This article, co-written by social value practitioners, compares and contrasts the impact that two credit unions in two countries have had on people’s lives.What is

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Blog: Valuable? A Tale of Two Credit Unions

Blog: Power Struggles

In conversation with others it always seems that we are trying to outwit the other to gain some form of control and power – be this in a positive or a negative way. We do this because it gives us a psychological boost! The problem with this power struggle is that it undermines the confidence of

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Blog: Power Struggles

Resources

Resources: Workplace wellbeing

Workplace Wellbeing Resources Summary of key wellbeing factors to consider, what to do, how to measure workplace wellbeing, toolkits, wellbeing employee support packages and more.. Download Sign up to the Kaizen Community for more resources Go to our wellbeing page to find out how we can help you.

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Resources: Workplace wellbeing

Lean Thinking & Reducing Waste

Feel free to use this template to support your work.   Contact us to facilitate a kaizen blitz business improvement session with employee problem solving to identify where waste is happening across processes and to develop business improvement plans. Download Sign up to the Kaizen Community for more resources Go to our business improvement page to find

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Lean Thinking & Reducing Waste

Resources: Trading Strategies for Social Enterprise

Want to develop social enterprise?Need help to diversify income sources?Want to make money to increase your impact?Want to be more resilient? This template will help you to identify ideas and options to earn an income. We can help you to develop ideas, identify market opportunities, develop your business model and plans and develop an investment proposal,

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Resources: Trading Strategies for Social Enterprise

Resources: Social Impact Planning

Use this logical framework to develop your outcomes plan and measure your impact. This can be used to inform project design and then funding and investment bids. Please get in touch, we are Advanced Accredited Social Value Practitioners (Social Value UK) and can help you to grow your social impact – so that you do

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Resources: Social Impact Planning

Resources: Social Enterprise & Investment

This Social Enterprise and Investment Resource provides information, advice and guidance on steps to take on your social enterprise and investment readiness journey. Social investors look at four elements of your business when assessing your readiness for social investment: Governance and leadership, finance, social impact and market potential. We have been reviewing and using resources for

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Resources: Social Enterprise & Investment