If you’ve ever tried to teach a kid to ride a bike, you know how it goes. You explain the pedals, the handlebars, and balance until you’re blue in the face—but the first attempts still wind up in wobbles and falls.

That’s because the brain’s basal ganglia, the part that locks in habits and motor skills, only learns one way: very slowly with repetition … repetition … repetition.

That’s how systematic continuous improvement works with teams in organizations, too. Everyone understands the merits of “getting better.” But unless you give employees a new routine for improvement, the basal ganglia keeps people stuck in the same old ways of doing things.

Breaking that pattern takes repeating a process – like team improvement huddles – that changes the default setting from “keep doing what works” to “let’s look at how we can make this better.” When that happens, employees get more engaged, ideas flow more freely, and the accumulation of small savings and gains turns into massive wins for the company.

So, if you want your organization to thrive, don’t just tell people you want to improve—give them a process that puts improvement into practice again and again. Repetition may be slow, but it’s how the brain—and the business—continues to get better and better over time.

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Great is the enemy of better!