Welcome to Design Team Fundamentals! Design Teams are a disciplined way of learning and improving processes together after predictable developmental phases of forming, storming, norming and performing. Unlike committees in status quo operations, Design Teams learn how to become highly effective and save precious time to work their PDSAs and learn what improves their process, and the system it is part of. 

Learn the practical, scientific methods behind these methods of working together in engaged  teams, preventing, and solving problems, building capability with interactive practices and tools. 

Knowledge Through Evidence: 

Learn how to manage your work, your processes, and your team more effectively. 

Members of self-directed Design Teams typically solve problems, handle decisions, and take  action to resolve issues within their charter’s scope. The focus around five critical roles helps  boost the effectiveness of the team while minimizing team size to speed decision making.  

Ultimately, these principles and practices create stronger, more effective teams, benefiting  owners, leaders, workers, suppliers, customers, and communities. Senior leaders, board members, managers, and staff, as well as customers and suppliers will benefit by attending. We encourage whole teams to attend so they can participate in collaborative learning and a common immersion experience. 

Discovering Opportunities for You & Your Organization to: 

  • Focus resources on creating a team to design improvement. 

  • Demonstrate the value of 5 specialized roles in effective teams. 

  • Boost the effectiveness of the team while minimizing team size to speed decision making.

  • Promote discipline around thinking together as a team and then acting to increase customer  value and reduce waste. 

  • Create the ability for your team to do more in less time. 

  • Increase cooperation and productivity. 

  • Increase quality and continually improve effectiveness. 

Gain Insight & Understanding Into: 

  • The broader value and application of principles from the science of improvement and Deming Management Methods integrated with the knowledge of high-performing teams.

  • How to keep stakeholders and sponsors engaged and informed, then use their feedback to  improve.  

  • Greater innovation, teamwork, and productivity with knowledge and reduced tampering.

  • Improved leadership decision making with evidence. 

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Read the following to better understand the application of design teams, and find the curriculum below. For more information contact us!

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Curriculum of Design Team Fundamentals

Philosophy 

Linkage to Deming System of Profound Knowledge™ Learning

  • Online Resources and Team Channels 

Critical Roles and Design Team Functions Linked in Scientific Evidence

  • Communications, Customer, Process, Supplier, Teamwork 

Basic Principles for Team Effectiveness 

  • The Impact of Team Size on Speed and Performance 

  • The Impact of Trust 

Processes, Methods and Tools 

Brainstorming, Affinity Grouping, Affinity Prioritization 

  • Refresher From Videos 

PDSA, Process Behavior (Control) Charts 

  • Documenting Team Values EXERCISE 

Aim and Purpose to focus the team 

  • Refresher From Videos 

Get A GRIP for building consensus 

  • Get A GRIP for Consensus EXERCISE 

Team Charters to link with sponsors 

  • Creating & Updating the Team Charter EXERCISE 

Design Team Functions of Communications, Customer, Process, Supplier, Teamwork

  • Design Team Processes EXERCISE 

Teamwork 

  • Action Item / Decision Register EXERCISE 

Effective Team Meetings 

  • Team Schedule, Cadence, PAL and Meeting Management EXERCISE 

Value Stream Maps to understand what to improve

  • Using The Value Stream Map EXERCISE 

Stand and Deliver Readout 

  • Reporting Improvements and Learning EXERCISE 

  • Reporting to Stakeholders 

  • Reporting to Sponsors

Participant resources are hosted securely, and training is currently delivered virtually on Microsoft Teams!