About this episode

Kyle Scheele discusses how to harness frontline wisdom to drive operational change in landscape operations.

Most landscape operators are solving problems their crews already figured out — they just never built a way to hear them. Kyle Scheele is an Innovation Keynote Speaker with 250 million video views who has spent his career helping companies build systems that extract frontline wisdom and turn it into real operational change. For landscape operators trying to scale past the chaos, the gap between ideas that stay on the whiteboard and ideas that actually change how the work gets done is costing you more than you think. In this episode: Harvard Business Review found that 70% of the time, the solution to your biggest operational problem already exists inside your company — yet only 10% of employee-submitted ideas are ever reviewed. Kyle breaks down exactly why that gap exists and how leadership behavior is the cause. Kyle's Catch-Keep-Collide framework: the three components every idea system needs to go from scattered crew observations to field-tested operational wins. The one question leaders should start asking this week to unlock the thinking their team is already doing — but has stopped sharing. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Intro & The Harvard Innovation Gap 1:53 — Why Frontline…

People in this episode

Host: LeanScaper

Guest: Kyle Scheele

Topics covered

• innovation
• leadership
• operational change
• employee engagement
• landscape industry

Keywords

• innovation
• leadership behavior
• operational problems
• employee ideas
• landscape operators

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Business Review, LeanScaper

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