Modus Institute
We make modern work professional, safe, and humane. See your work, understand your culture, make better professional decisions.
Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria created Personal Kanban, Lean Coffee, and dozens of other popular methods to help individuals, teams and organizations see work as it happens, do the right work at the right time, and seamlessly engage continuous improvement.
At Modus Institute we provide affordable on-line training for individuals and teams as well as access to a growing, dynamic, and engaged global network of professionals like you...trying to make work better, smarter, and more humane.
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Wait, You Want To Do What? A Reality Check For Your Post-Its
Stop Trying To 'Mindfulness' Your Way Out Of A Traffic Jam
Stop Hoarding Tasks Like They’re Canned Peaches for the Apocalypse
Leaders Must Delegate Responsibly.
Your Locked Loop of Forgetfulness
Cookie and the Cocoa Puffs Teach You How To Control Your Work
Cookie and The Cocoa Puffs
When It Hurts to Work
Why Seeing Your Work Matters
We Choose Toxicity
The Business Case for Humane Work:
Screw Roles...We Need to Act
Visualize Stress, Build Flow
You’re a Stakeholder in Your Own Work:
Multitasking is Underperforming
Make It Useful Make it Focused
Learned Helplessness is Really Imposed Isolation
The Four C’s Will Make Your Life Better
Don't Accept Bad Communication at Work
Excellent Casting
Ghosts in the Machine...Smart Teams Build for Flow
Hell Is Other People, Heaven Is a Good Team
Culture Scales or Nothing Does
Build Your Bubble of Focus: A Personal Kanban Design Idea
Humans Work With AI: A Conversation with FutureProof Music School's John von Seggern
Why I Love Value Stream Mapping as Much as John Shook Loves Factories
The Fire Department that Avoids Firefighting in the Office
The Modus Way of Working (v.1.0)
The Missing Pieces of Productivity
How to Ethically Use AI in Your Work