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- Staff developmentTalent Review & Organization Review
- Without a review, a gap shows only when a seat falls empty
- Everyone, every year, needs feedback and a development plan
- Review climbs level by level; feedback must return to the person
- Taken out is not resigned: log the funnel in two columns
- Capability gaps need countermeasures; succession covers two layers
- Retention risk stays out of a searchable database; people run the review
- Staff developmentTraining and Facilitation Techniques for Instructors
- Lecture without practice or handoff, and learners still cannot teach
- Class size is backed out of day three’s schedule
- Talk is the small part; the rest is practice and review
- Three steps in a line, four in a loop; three correct runs mean learned
- Start with the lightest move; talk privately only if it fails
- Class ending is not the finish: real use within 60 days counts
- The system keeps time and scores; people coach and give feedback
- GrowthTG-2 Kaizen / Simplified QFD
- Ranking only by importance puts effort where no gap opens
- Check fit first; postpone when conditions are missing
- Compress to about ten needs, force tradeoffs, then intersect
- Turn customer words into engineering targets, then see where the money goes
- Sketch seven each without criticism, then converge in three rounds
- Build models, then price risk and cost, then ask Sales
- Every output needs a receiver; high risk needs a backup
- Approval is not resources; the finish is management’s commitment
- Fit checks and scoring go to the system; tradeoffs and commitments stay with people
- Lean workplace (Gemba).Production Preparation Process
- The first idea is usually the old way — try better ones before you build
- Takt and a signed contract first — design needs a measuring stick
- One function at a time: seven concepts, tested in cardboard down to one
- No battleships: fewer parts, small machines, one-piece flow
- Hand it over on one sheet; it takes off only when targets are met
- Completeness and thresholds go to the system; trials and decisions stay with people
- Transactional processesTransactional Process Improvement
- Office waste does not pile up on the floor — it waits in someone’s inbox
- Bound one stretch, walk it twice, and count the waiting
- No solution on the table until the obstacle is defined and STOP is cleared
- Schedule one point in the should-be flow; measure change against current
- The new flow runs on Monday: train people, stabilize by hand, then automate
- In service work, keep every state visible — the customer’s clock runs longer than the queue’s
- The seven numbers and the gates go to the system; the walk and the decisions stay with people
- Lean workplace (Gemba).Total Productive Maintenance
- A machine that keeps running can still be losing output
- Find the loss in the value stream, then choose the machine
- OEE is a product: route every loss to the right denominator
- Cleaning is inspection: expose the defects taken for normal
- Repaired is not done: verify it, and change three things if it recurs
- Hand the daily checks to the person closest to the machine
- From repairing faster to not needing the repair
- The system does the arithmetic; the floor and the judgment stay with people
- GrowthValue Selling
- Without a customer event, the odds are your own guess
- Count the days you can truly sell, then split them
- Deals move on customer actions; the reserve must cover the PD target
- Turn the customer’s benefit into money, then compare with the rival
- Write the aim first, ask about needs, then win an action
- Name the people, fix the plan, then track progress against it
- The system does the sums; the customer’s buy-in stays with people
- GrowthValue Analysis Value Engineering (VAVE)
- Cost-down starts with what each function costs and is worth
- Size the margin gap, then build a funnel bigger than the target
- Ask what customers value, then score each function
- Split cost by function; target what is costly but little valued
- Try another way to deliver the function; prototype the paper winner
- Calculated savings count only after risk, approval and booking
- System calls the quadrant; prototypes and customers stay with people
- GrowthVoice of the Customer
- Transactional processesValue Stream Mapping of Information Flow
- Without measuring the queues, speeding up is just being busy
- Map one object’s whole journey, not one department
- Every department is busy, yet the application mostly waits
- Time on one object is not the interval between outputs
- Lead time is almost all queueing, not processing
- A burst says what to change, not just “this is bad”
- Merge flow without hiding quality risk
- Bound the queue and pace acceptance
- The future state is redrawn from the marked-up current map
- Turn opportunities into owned plans
- Without follow-up the plan does not finish
- The system counts queues and yields; people go and judge