Innovation Tools for Quality Teams–3 Part Webinar
I’m offering 3 webinars on Innovation Tools for the ASQ Human Development & Leadership Division.
Questions to ask during PDSA and PDCA small steps
PDSA applies to large-scale longer-term slow cycles and small-scale shorter-term cycles. When you are seeking improvement on a system that is already in place, you should begin with Study. The questions below begin with Study.
Shifting the Team from Separate Functions to Systems Thinking Case Study
Using real work for Team Building moved the people on the team;
from functional autonomy to interdependence;
from lone experts to a collaborative, focused team;
from impulsive to disciplined;
from the use of experience and instinct to the use of data;
from separate functions to systems thinking.
Results vs Process Achieving Goals While Improving the Work
Results without a process is luck. Process without results is waste. How are your processes driving the goals you work to achieve?
How might we create a shared understanding of outcomes?
How might we create a shared understanding of the required outcomes? It helps to work with the line leaders usually process holders to determine what the improvement through training, process improvement, etc… might be and how together we can measure the business case and the impact on performance.
Innovative Companies Copy
I agree that the emphasis may be different for different teams and industries. And every organization and person, in order to do their best work at their maximum effectiveness seeks personal mastery.
Why do we hate smart people?
These are all summed up in a need for opportunities for Self-Development. The challenge is what is said, and what is thought, and what is practices and rewarded are all very different.
“Learn to Lead Not How to Be Boss”
Having just finished Toyota Kata and being influenced by the use iterative processes for improvement. As well as the power of consistent messaging and improvement, hearing this song is AWESOME!
Photo Inquiry Friday: How Would You Like This To End?
…it has been a day of learning, asking questions, rumbling in my chair, holding back on my comments and wanting to re-frame everything into an organizational development method like; determining extant from written organizational system and asking what behaviors are coming from those systems.
Improvement Comes From Destruction of Now.
“If you don’t know what you will do, when you can do whatever you want, Right Now.
Then how can you possibly know what to do, when you can’t do whatever you want?”