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Initiating and Building Improvement Teams On-Site Training

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.

Course Description/Agenda


Length: 1 day
Number of Participants:
Up to 20
Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided


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

 

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