Visual Management Leadership
Using a visual management board to speak on daily metrics and quality opportunities helps improve production as well as colleague engagement. Whether it is setting up a physical board or a virtual board that is shared electronically, this tool gives you visibility to see if your team is doing well or needs help.
A 15-minute daily meeting where you speak on production, quality, training, and team building. Having someone with facilitator training to be able to prod people for information and understand defects is crucial for success.
1. Start with production: How do we determine if the team or individual is doing well?
There needs to be visual representation based on this (Green for good, Red for bad; Thumbs up/down), this can help the team know at a glance what is needed for the rest of the day. Once we establish a good flow of meeting production, we can move the focus to quality.
2. Quality: How good is our output?
This conversation should have a weekly list of “Quality items missed,” so colleagues can learn, and managers keep track of trending quality issues to be able to poke-yoke the process to ensure success.
3. Training: How do we can better output or production?
This can be training on what quality mistakes were made so we can improve the process and the associated training.
This can also be training on how to get more production, overseeing your team, and understanding how the top performers outdo the other colleagues taking those skills and giving them to all colleagues so everyone is working as efficiently as possible.
4. Team building: How do colleagues get along and solve problems?
The most important step, without team trust we cannot solve problems.
Take the time to set up trivia games, and activities with your team so they can get to know each other and have fun. This sprouts a great environment for asking questions and helps leaders understand how to create a team that can work together and solve conflicts.
