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Pursuing Process Excellence - How to Sustain Your Improvement Efforts Workshop
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Many organizations struggle to sustain their six sigma, lean tools, or other operational excellence focused initiatives. This workshop will help you learn how to take these approaches beyond the typical project team and training-based initiatives by changing your existing work systems to make process excellence part of every employee’s job.
What is the focus of the "Pursuing Process Excellence - How to Sustain Your Improvement Efforts " workshop?
Most organizations want to go faster – they want to reduce errors and costs, improve customer service, and reach higher levels of performance in general. Unfortunately, many struggle to attain, let alone sustain, process excellence, in spite of their efforts to install improvement approaches such as six sigma and lean practices. What’s holding them back?
With most implementation efforts, project teams and training courses are used to drive the performance improvement initiative. While a project team approach, where a select percentage of employees regularly participate in improvement activities, can deliver significant short term gains, it is not enough to either build the use of these techniques into an organization’s work culture or create a new approach to doing work that is sustainable over the long term. Additionally, these approaches tend to only engage 15-20% of the workforce, so even when the teams are successful, a significant amount of time is required to create substantial organizational change.Why is this workshop important?
Too many organizations attempt to pursue operational and process excellence by relying solely on kaizen teams, six sigma teams, or the engineering department. If you want to accelerate and sustain your site or organizational pursuit of process excellence, you have to address those systematic constraints that are holding back your improvement efforts – project teams alone take too long. Instead, your existing work systems need to be redesigned in order to (1) engage a high percentage of the workforce and (2) include a high percentage of the organization's key work processes in a systematic and consistent formal process improvement effort.
The small percentage of truly high performance organizations that exists has figured this out. They realize that sustained success over time cannot be realized by simply forming a few project teams and sending a small percentage of the workforce to training sessions. Instead, they design their work systems to make it mandatory that each employee, and in particular, each process owner, both learn these skills and use them on a daily basis. This workshop will help you identify your organization or site specific improvement constraints and create a plan for making changes to remove, or at least minimize, these constraints yourself.
Who can benefit from attending this workshop?
This workshop is designed to help any organizational or site leader identify and address those work system design constraints that are holding back their pursuit of process excellence. For example, in many organizations, most leaders don't even know how to use process improvement tools themselves, even though they are responsible for improving the processes they own. We also fail to engage a high percentage of our workforce in the pursuit of process excellence, even though the systems for doing so are not very costly or challenging to implement. Perhaps most importantly, this workshop is also designed to help you find time for improvement and create a plan for using that time effectively to begin making a transition from reactive problem solving to proactive process improvement!!
What will you learn in this workshop?
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How to model the approaches used by high performance organizations to streamline and accelerate your own change efforts |
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How to clarify the degree to which you are willing make the changes for sustaining true process excellence |
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How to identify specific changes which are need to build process excellence into each person’s job |
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How to overcome those system barriers that typically derail process excellence efforts in most organizations |
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How to create a plan for implementing your workshop learnings and strategies |
Are you interested in bringing my one day onsite "Pursuing Process Excellence - How to Sustain Your Improvement Efforts" workshop to your organization?
You can initiate the on-site workshop setup process by sending me a e-mail at kevin@greatsystems.com indicating which workshop you would like to bring into your facility. I will then work with a contact person from your location to arrange the workshop logistics, and more importantly, to customize the workshop to meet the specific needs that you have. We will also prepare a firm delivery cost at that time. You will be invoiced for the workshop costs following the event.
On-site workshop costs vary with company and team size. In general, the cost of a one day onsite workshop for up to 15 people will range between $1,500 and $2,000 for eight hours of class time, depending on organizational size. For a 15 person class, your daily cost per person falls between $100 and $135!
These costs include (1) training materials, (2) a follow-up action plan from the facilitator, and (3) three months of free online consultation. Meals, refreshments, and travel expenses are not included in these costs (but I really try to keep my travel costs low - no first class air travel, limos, or suites).
Again, if a course does not meet your expectations, your participation fee will be refunded
Who created this workshop?
The “Pursuing Process Excellence - How to Sustain Your Improvement Efforts” workshop was designed by Kevin McManus, who has served as an industrial engineer, Production Manager, Plant Manager, and Director of Quality during his 27 year business career. Kevin first began learning about and applying process improvement concepts in 1981, and since that time, has helped over 150 project teams solve problems and implement system changes. By serving as an Examiner, Senior Examiner, and Alumni Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for the past ten years, Kevin has learned about a variety of best practices that are used by true high performers to build process excellence into EVERY employee's daily job. Kevin also writes the monthly Performance Improvement column for Industrial Engineer magazine and is an international trainer for the TapRooT® root cause analysis process..
Would you like to learn more about process excellence tools and concepts?
Click on one of the following links to explore other ways you can accelerate the pursuit of process excellence in your organization:
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