Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement across an organization. The word “kaizen” translates to “change for the better”. The philosophy is based on the idea that small, incremental changes can lead to significant improvements over time. The same principles apply to cultivating personal resilience and wisdom.
The Kokoro Personal Wisdom app includes several tools to track and measure your progress. These same tools are even more directly relevant and easily adapted to the organizational setting. They include:
- Personal Integral Resilience Baseline and Integral Resilience Quotient (IRQ) Forms
- Sets a baseline for each key players physical, emotional, perceptual, spiritual, and relational resilience. The Profiler helps you plan your resilience building program, pointing to focuses most germane to your Integral Resilience Plan.
- Field Notes Form
- Enables you to track and to measure errors (“falling off”), wins, and recoveries in all your important negotiations—the secret to continuous enhanced performance. You can use Field Notes to track your discoveries in cultivating Integral Resilience and Wisdom which will translate directly in enhanced performance in all your personal and business negotiations and other important encounters in daily life.
- Player Integrity Profile (PIPS) for Self
- One of the keys to enhanced wisdom is to know yourself, as Socrates taught, PIPS focuses your attention on some essentials. PIPS/IRQ Scoring Form – Between Parties allows you to track the overlap or gap between your character and that of another player.
- Action Logs
- This is a key Resilient Negotiation tool that enables you to assess accurately each frame in a negotiation, and thereby set up your best next move.
See also: Kaizen in Wikipedia