Train-the-Trainer Tracks

Track-3: Becoming a Leader of Improvement + Management-By-Sight: Visual Displays & Production Control Boards

Most managers do simply that: manage instead drive. The same is often true of supervisors: they supervise people, expedite materials, and push shipments out the door. Few, however, take on the tasks of the new enterprise: measuring, teaching, coaching, and driving improvement in their areas. And few make their own contributions to improvement.

In the first part of Track-3, trainers-in-training learn how to teach and work with managers and supervisors so that they shift a portion of their daily focus and adopt a role as leaders of improvement.

In part two, they learn how to train, coach, and support others in Visual Displays and Production Controls Boards. For companies making the transition from traditional to new manufacturing (aka, Lean) visual displays are the glue that holds the company together while it reduces batch sizes and implements pull. In this, displays are indispensable.

Among their remarkable characteristics, visual displays are capable of holding vast amounts of inter-related information in real time, for all to see, enabling us to understand the status of a given situation in a single glance, make sound decisions, and confidently take timely, appropriate, and aligned action—either as an individual or as a team.

Visual displays are not redundant in a world governed by computers. Instead, displays are the means by which we can, in real time, display data from multiple sources (including but not limited to the computer) and predict their discrete and multi-variant impact on the production flow. In this regard, for companies in transition, displays are powerful and unsurpassed in their usefulness.

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