Useful Articles
A selection of useful and informative short reads designed to give you insight into the Newleaf programme and offering you some simple solutions to common problems faced by large corporations.
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About Newleaf
As a boutique Management Consultancy who specialises in Business and Efficiency Improvement through the development our client’s people and work systems simultaneously. These blogs highlight our background to this USP and the multinational clients we have.


Elevating Manufacturing Excellence

The Vital Synergy: Learning for Knowledge, Cultivating Workplace Habits in Manufacturing

The Successful Change Management Network

FMCG – Fast Moving Consumer Goods – Newleaf Excel In Making Sustainable Improvements

The Benefits of Six Sigma and How to Overcome Key Issues With The “Newleaf Way”

Reflections: 30 years of Change Management and Business Improvement Consultancy – Part 10

Reflections: 30 years of Change Management and Business Improvement Consultancy – Part 9

Reflections: 30 years of Change Management and Business Improvement Consultancy – Part 8

Reflections: 30 years of Change Management and Business Improvement Consultancy – Part 7

Cultural Change
To make a significant change in our client’s organisation we understand there needs to be a Transformational shift, not merely an introduction of more or new tools and techniques. Our blogs below start to discuss this.
Boost Your OEE: A “Learning by Doing” Approach
Transform Your Strategy into Action with OGSM and a ‘Learn by Doing’ Approach
Embracing Consistency and Discipline
The Decline of Organisational Development: Navigating the Stormy Seas of Change
Elevating Manufacturing Excellence
The Curse of the Matrix Organisation and Choosing the Right Structure for Your Business
Is Leadership and Management Training Really Effective?
Has your organisation got its “Technical Mastery” in the wrong place?
The NewLeaf International Principles of Transformational Change Part 10
Part 8 of Our Series Implementing Principles of Transformational Change “Address Correct Infrastructure AND Capability Simultaneously”

Improvement Mentality
Change in an organisation only has a real chance of being sustainable when the leaders and key employees think different about their approach to making improvements. We know how important this is and it’s a key component in our Integrated Framework. This selection of blogs highlights some of our thinking and how we support our clients in thinking about improvement too.
Boost Your OEE: A “Learning by Doing” Approach
Embracing Consistency and Discipline
The Decline of Organisational Development: Navigating the Stormy Seas of Change
The Vital Synergy: Learning for Knowledge, Cultivating Workplace Habits in Manufacturing
Why Business Improvement Initiatives Often Miss Their Mark
The Way You See The Problem Is The Problem
What Is The Cost On Your Customer Service Reputation With A Quick Fix Or Bad Habits?
Don’t like change
Are Critical Business Improvements…
Are you finding it difficult to get things done during lockdown?

Leading Change
Two of our key components in a Transformation Change programme are facilitation AND leadership. We can often start the process by providing the facilitation of an improvement programme, but internal leadership is key too. These blogs discuss the required leadership roles in successful programmes.
Embracing Consistency and Discipline
The Decline of Organisational Development: Navigating the Stormy Seas of Change
Elevating Manufacturing Excellence
The Vital Synergy: Learning for Knowledge, Cultivating Workplace Habits in Manufacturing
FMCG – Fast Moving Consumer Goods – Newleaf Excel In Making Sustainable Improvements
OGSM What is it? What are the benefits and how do I Implement it?
Do you think you could get more from your Work Teams?
A World Class Facilitator is at the Heart of being a Professional Consultant and Trainer Part 8
A World Class Facilitator is at the Heart of being a Professional Consultant and Trainer…….Part 7
A World Class Facilitator is at the Heart of being a Professional Consultant and Trainer Part 6

Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is at the heart of our DNA and although many people may understand some of the tools and techniques required in Systems Thinking, the true depth of being holistic and seeing the interdependent and interconnecting parts of an organisation is a true transformation in thinking. The following blogs illustrate this.
Transform Your Strategy into Action with OGSM and a ‘Learn by Doing’ Approach
Embracing Consistency and Discipline
The Benefits of Six Sigma and How to Overcome Key Issues With The “Newleaf Way”
OGSM What is it? What are the benefits and how do I Implement it?
Seeing your organisation as a “Hierarchy of Systems” helps see the “Wood for the Trees”
Do You or Your Organisation Struggle to Make Important Things Happen?
The Power of Systems Thinking – September 2019
How To Manage Work Systems, Not Behaviors…
What “System Thinkers” think!
Analysing organisations? Think “hard” and “soft” systems.

Tools for Change
There are four key levels in a change programme. Conceptional thinking, strategy, tactical implementation, and delivery. The tools for change live in the tactical level and the following blogs show some of the tools and techniques we use in action.
