Half-Day Workshop - Pursuing Process Excellence
Pursuing Process Excellence - How to Sustain Your Improvement Efforts
Half-Day Workshop delivered by
Kevin McManus, Performance Improvement Coach, Great Systems!
Tuesday, February 19, 2007
1:00 - 5:00 pm (prior to the February Membership Meeting)
Engineers' Club of St. Louis
4359 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108 (map)
(314) 533-9333
About the 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.
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 relying on project teams and training alone. 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 create a plan for making such changes yourself.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
Half-Day Workshop delivered by
Kevin McManus, Performance Improvement Coach, Great Systems!
Tuesday, February 19, 2007
1:00 - 5:00 pm (prior to the February Membership Meeting)
Engineers' Club of St. Louis
4359 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108 (map)
(314) 533-9333
Workshop is open on a first-come, first-served basis to the first 25 registrants
Registration fee for the workshop is $25
Register for the workshop and/or the February Membership Meeting
Please register by Monday February 18 by visiting the online registration page (click here). You can prepay for membership meetings via credit card on safe and secure web environment.
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.
About the 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.
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 relying on project teams and training alone. 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 create a plan for making such changes yourself.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Model the approaches used by high performance organizations to streamline your own change effort
- Clarify the degree to which you are willing make the changes for sustaining true process excellence
- Identify specific workplace changes that are need to build process excellence into each person's job
- Overcome those system barriers that typically derail process excellence efforts in most organizations
- Create an action plan for implementing your workshop learnings and strategies
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Membership meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month; September through May. Plant Tours are sometimes substituted for a regular meeting.
The price for Members and Guests to attend meetings is $25, and for Members between jobs and Students $15, unless otherwise noted.
The price for Members and Guests to attend meetings is $25, and for Members between jobs and Students $15, unless otherwise noted.
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