Great Systems ‘Teach Your Teams’ Workbooks and Workshops

I created each of my workbooks and methods through experience, practice, and experimentation. The content worked for me. So, I want to share it with you. I design my learning events to be highly interactive. Primarily, I want to help you learn to effectively teach my content, plus anything else you as a value add.

As of mid-February 2023, three courses are live on my Great Systems YouTube channel. Each ‘Team Your Teams’ course contains full audio and video content to complement the print and eBook workbooks I sell on amazon.com. Plus, we can set up a virtual event to help you integrate use of this content into your leadership and team development plans.

CLICK HERE to Buy Great Systems Workbooks at Amazon.com!

Please keep me in mind for your work system improvement needs. I am happy to facilitate a virtual 2-day workshop that utilizes any of the workbooks I offer in the Great Systems Shop. There are no travel costs.

Plus, my workshop cost per participant is very reasonable. Send me an email at kevin@greatsystems.com, if you want to learn more about my ‘teach it yourself’ workbooks and workshops.

Stay Current With My Real Life Work Podcast

I know that my customers have little time to invest in work systems research. That’s why I do it for them! Each week, my ‘Real Life Work’ weekly podcast explores current operational excellence best practices and challenges with a ‘real life work’ and ‘how to make work better’ focus.

The podcast is now live, with more episodes in queue. Expect to see future episodes that focus on the key elements of operational excellence. Such elements include Leader Standard Work, total team engagement, work system measurement, and proactive process improvement.

Plus, I plan to include safety and risk management best practices in the mix, along with root cause analysis. If you would like to be part of the show, drop me a line at kevin@greatsystems.com.

Root Cause Analysis Best Practices

Effective root cause analysis is a ‘must have’ tool that all work team members should use to reduce daily errors, failures, and waste. Unfortunately, most root cause analysis tools rely on opinion. For almost 20 years however, my teaching and investigative experiences have shown me how the research-driven TapRooT® root cause analysis process consistently produces different, and better, results.

Four pages on my site have a root cause analysis-specific focus. If their content does not answer all of your questions, just drop me a note!

• Evaluating Root Cause Analysis Processes
• Root Cause Analysis FAQs
• Five Bad Root Cause Analysis Questions
• Explore the 3-day TapRooT® virtual root cause analysis training course

PROACTIVE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

Third, we want every work team, through its leader, to consistently drive down errors and waste via daily proactive process improvement. This area, like team engagement, gets little time devoted to it in so many cases.

The intent exists, but there simply is not enough time in the job with all of the daily Leader Standard WASTE that exists. Plus, most people simply don’t have time in their jobs to contribute to performance improvement beyond idea submittal.

My Personal Kaizen Process Excellence certificate process is one way to help your leaders make the NextGen Leader Standard Work transition. This process has been used in multiple organizations, both formally and informally. It provides a multi-faceted way to gauge daily operational excellence work habit practice.

Work System Optimization – Where Should You Start Your OPEX Journey?

Finally, the ultimate goal is to integrate our great work systems into a cohesive, complimentary infrastructure that supports our mission, vision, values, and strategic objectives. Currently, little time exists to benchmark better options. Incremental process improvement, and a few pockets of excellence, seem to be the best we can achieve.

To tie it all together, senior leaders must optimize work system design through work process integration, digital transformation, and best practice design application. You don’t have to take time to re-invent the wheel. Best practice tools, blueprints, workflows, and designs exist.

To improve, you just need to model, adapt, and utilize them. Here are some great places to start:

• The Basics of Operational Excellence
• Operational Excellence Barriers
• Personal Kaizen Operational Excellence Certificate Process
• Use the Baldrige Award Criteria to Measure Operational Excellence
• How to Achieve Operational Excellence Workbook

Our operational excellence journey should not be the challenge that we make it. Remember, work system design drives work team performance. Please take the time to explore how my Great Systems best practice work systems can help you drive operational excellence.

Total Work Team Engagement – How Engaged are Your Work Teams?

Next, we want to build a team infrastructure that promotes total team engagement. All too often, our current work system designs limit consistent collaboration, relationship growth, and process change. All leader time goes to manage daily value stream and support process performance.

One result is we waste a lot of time and money each day. Worse yet, we create a workplace where few people want to spend time. In turn, motivation and focus drift.

Best Practices to Improve Workplace Safety and Risk Assessment

Effective safety and risk management work systems are one of the five key elements of sustained operational excellence. It is in this area where my saying ‘different systems produce different results’ is most evident. Many of my customers consistently produce best-in-class safety, health, and risk management results.

First, we to create a daily workplace that is safe and secure. This means that effective safety / risk management practices are key daily habits for all staff. For this to happen, leaders must have time for such activities in their Leader Standard Work job designs.

If you want insight into their strategies, try these links that have a safety, health, and risk management reduction focus.

• Measuring and Evaluating Workplace Safeguard Effectiveness
• How to Write Effective Corrective Actions
• Ideas for Measuring Incident Investigator Competency

Would a Great Systems Virtual Workshop Help You Drive Operational Excellence?

Great Systems is NOW in its third year of virtual service! At little or no cost, you can bring my performance improvement content to your organization. I offer both static (no live interaction) and dynamic webinars (full interaction) on a regular basis. Please let me know if there is a performance improvement topic I can help you with.

My virtual workshop model dedicates 40% or more time to breakout group work and dialogue. Also, my use of individual assignments helps increase class engagement. Assignment review helps drive learner accountability. Plus, my virtual workshop classes follow this content delivery model to make your experience more than just time spent online.

Lastly, please keep in mind that my costs are reasonable. My goal is to provide virtual courses, content, and coaching to help you maximize work team engagement and effectiveness, optimize work system results, and drive operational excellence.

Connect with Kevin McManus to Learn How Great Best Practice Work Systems Drive Operational Excellence!

Years of work and volunteer experience taught me how to design great work systems and develop great work teams. For example, I have over 20 years of service as a National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Examiner.

Also, I have worked more than 18 years as an international, and now virtual, TapRooT® root cause analysis course facilitator. More than 10,000 hours of teaching and speaking in the past ten years alone has helped me discover even more Great Systems best practice work systems. Finally, I commit to consistent, continual personal improvement.

Do you want to learn more about how you can use great best practice work systems to drive operational excellence? If so, please connect with me on social media, or send me an email at kevin@greatsystems.com.  I hope to see you in my virtual future!

Thanks for the visit and keep improving! Kevin McManus, Chief Excellence Officer, Great Systems LLC