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Performance hubs : engaging teams in focused continuous improvement / Marc Roberts.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Roberts, Marc, 1973- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Teams in the workplace--Management.
Teams in the workplace.
Organizational effectiveness.
Performance.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, 2011.
Summary:
A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need for performance improvement, and drive improvements at their own level. Highlighting common pitfalls in improvement initiatives, it provides the tools to help you avoid the disinterested cultural response to improvement efforts that is all too common in organizations suffering from initiative overload.The book details a comprehensive solution to help all employees visualize operational performance. It explains how to cascade the right metrics across all levels of your business to trigger the appropriate use of Lean/Six Sigma tools and techniques into strategic process areas.
Contents:
part Section 1: Warm Up
chapter 1 Introduction
chapter 2 Lean Leadership
chapter 3 Performance Hub at a Glance
part Section 2: Implementation
chapter 4 The Deployment Plan and the Project Hub
chapter 5 Identifying the Right Metrics
chapter 6 The Review Structure
chapter 7 Visual Performance Hub at Senior Management/Director Level
chapter 8 Visual Performance Hub at the Management Level
chapter 9 Visual Performance Hub at the Team Level
part Section 3: Routine Behaviors
chapter 10 The Art of Facilitation
chapter 11 Target Setting
chapter 12 Making Robust Improvements
chapter 13 Applying the Right Medicine
chapter 14 Holding the Gains
chapter 15 Virtual Performance Hubs
chapter 16 The Pitfalls
part Section 4: Implementation and Engagement Aids
chapter 17 Useful Icebreakers and Flips
chapter 18 How to Use the Accompanying CD.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781466506374
1466506377
9780429248641
0429248644
9781138463547
113846354X
9781439861332
1439861331
9781439861349
143986134X
OCLC:
798584665

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