Learn to initiate and support your organization's improvement teams.
This seminar provides an overview of how to prepare your Leadership
and Guidance Team, identify and prioritize your improvement team
projects, prepare your improvement teams for their first and
following meetings, use storyboards and quality improvement tools,
identify and deal with team development issues, and monitor,
support, and reward improvement teams.
Who Should Attend:
• Company Leaders
• Improvement Team Leaders
• Improvement Team Facilitators
• Leaders responsible for identifying and training Improvement Team
Facilitators
Seminar Outline:
A. Leadership and Guidance Team Work
team player roles - implementation plan - choosing pilot projects
and teams - building your PDCA improvement process
B. Preparing Improvement Teams
company wide communications - improvement team training - team
leader training - Improvement Team advisor training
C. Building Improvement Teams
learning to look for opportunities - using the PDCA improvement
process - choosing and using quality measurement tools - improvement
team dynamics - improvement team model of progress
D. Implementation Issues
sources of resistance
E. Planning Your Next Steps
prioritizing next steps
Seminar Format:
This seminar is most effective when company leaders and others
responsible for planning and implementing improvement teams come as
a team. Attendees receive a workbook which includes all information
presented in the seminar and includes a bibliography and listing of
resources.
Business Argument for Improvement Teams
A business argument for this work describes a company whose goal is
to generate more profit
dollars, more extra money at the end of the year.
Let's imagine they're a $50 million revenue company earning
5% profit, or $2.5 million per year. They want to double their
profit dollars.
One strategy would be to increase capital and headcount to increase
the size and capacity of the organization to reach this goal. If the
current system capability generates x and they want 2x, they need
twice the revenue, i.e. $100 million in revenues.
But they would have to subtract the cost to double the
organization’s capability, so in fact they would need even more
revenues, an even larger organization.
Another strategy would be to target the 10-30% of an organization's
revenue being spent on generating wast