Executive and Middle Managers need to identify their critical processes, be able to assure that these processes meet or exceed their customers’ requirements and continuously analyze and improve these processes. When Executive and Middle Managers identify critical processes that need to be redesigned and improved, they need to decide the best way to do that. They can either make a quick management decision if the process is simple, everyone understands and is on-board, and the outcomes of the change are known. Usually this is not the case. For this reason it may be best to assemble a team of individuals that have some stake in this process. This team, whether native, or cross-functional will understand the overall process better, and the systemic changes that will result if the process is modified or redesigned. This seminar helps these teams establish a systematic approach to this process improvement and provides the tools to analyze the information and to test their changes before full blown modifications are made.
Benefits
- Understand how to build a high performance team by involving your people in the improvement process.
- Receive hands-on experience in the use of a systematic improvement methodology and the associated tools that can help you improve any of your critical processes.
- Understand how to implement continuous improvement concepts and tools effectively.
- Improved overall results from process improvement efforts.
- Gain confidence in the use of the systematic improvement method with actual cases utilizing process and problem analysis tools.
Highlights
- Teams vs Committees
- Team Development and Dynamics
- Roles of the Team Leader, Member, Facilitator, and Sponsor
- RelationeeringTM – Principled, Permanence, Participative, and Partnering
- Systematic Improvement Method (PDCA)
- Process and Problem Analysis Tools
- Method and Tool Application Case Study
- Implementation Process
An actual case study will be utilized. We can either utilize a generic case that has been used in previous seminars or some consulting time can be utilized to create a case study based on an actual case at your organization.
Link to Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria
This is a hands-on workshop. Although it concentrates mainly on Process Management, this PDCA methodology is applicable to the evaluation and improvement of all criteria categories.
Duration
- 2 Days