Increase Profitability

People get used to things as they are every day. The number of steps a process takes, the time for an order to be fulfilled, the amount of waste and scrap in production, the tolerable levels of production cost, the number of returns – all these are money, but sometimes it takes a different perspective to see, different tools to measure, than what we get so used to in the everyday.

Effective Learning for Growth can help drive cost, steps, rework, scrap, delays, returns, and other forms of waste from your organization.  At the same time, this process gets employees closest to the work and the customers engaged in finding ways to do things more efficiently, and appreciated for it by the leadership.

We start such efforts by interviewing the leadership about what efforts like this have been tried before, and what happened. We then go for a “Waste Walk” with employees to look for the seven types of waste, to baseline where improvement efforts may be needed.

The crucial commitment step is an extended meeting with the leadership to challenge to commit to what can be a hugely positive change.  The leadership goes through a series of investigative exercises to identify where improvement or cycle time reduction can make the most difference – and exactly how much difference it could make.

If the leadership isn’t fully committed and engaged by the end of this session, we don’t proceed – because most efforts at quality improvement fail for lack of senior leadership commitment.

The leadership charters teams to address the problems that they identified, and Effective Learning for Growth trains them to document processes and apply quality tools.  When these teams report back their recommendations and they’re implemented, there are two important results:

• Team participants are recognized and appreciated – which leads to greater job satisfaction and engagement, and
• Their recommendations make a big difference to the organization’s profitability and quality reputation.

Learn more by contacting us today!