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Continuous Improvement – Synonym or Antonym?

Does your group’s steady enchancment program mirror synonyms or antonyms of steady?

Continuous Synonyms – Constant, Unending, Connected, Consecutive, Endless, Everlasting, For Ever and Ever, Looped, Prolonged, and so on.

Continuous Antonyms – Completed, Discontinuous, Ending, Intermittent, Interupted, Sporadic, Stopping, Ceasing, and so on.

Describing a steady enchancment antonym group we are able to begin with technique deployment. Once per 12 months the leaders of the group get collectively to formulate the technique for the 12 months. The technique is, for probably the most half, discontinuous from the earlier 12 months. Previous 12 months enhancements have been sporadic however acceptable. In reality the acceptance of common outcomes was declared by the leaders to “maintain this level”. The subsequent step is to cascade the technique right down to decrease ranges however for probably the most half the leaders have already decided the important thing tasks. It is within the cascading the place it turns into discontinuous. The ranges of the group nearer to the leaders now have goals extra immediately associated to the technique however decrease degree goals are disjointed or sporadic in direct connection of the technique. Even shoddier these decrease ranges of the group are given goals they don’t have any management of or empowerment. However individuals begin their enchancment tasks and intermittently work on them when they don’t seem to be placing out fires. By the center of the present 12 months among the smaller tasks have ended with mediocre, and even no outcomes. By the tip of the 12 months individuals are cramming to get mission outcomes with the intention to meet their goals and due to this fact financial rewards. Results for the 12 months are once more common however acceptable.

Describing a steady enchancment synonym group we are able to once more begin with technique deployment. The technique is all the time aligned with the group’s values and buyer necessities, they’re extended. Lower ranges of the group are an integral a part of the technique deployment course of due to a flatter organizational construction. There is not any must cascade goals as everybody, 100%, is aware of the technique and understands how they contribute. People are totally engaged. Empowerment and data considerably contributes to quick tempo outcomes and facilitates the power to finish many enchancment tasks. The group is visible, everybody, high to backside of the group, understands the progress and the connection to attaining the technique. Leadership is there to Support, Teach, and Promote (Gemba STP) the tradition of countless enhancements. Improvements don’t turn into a waste, sustainment is a part of the issue fixing course of however it’s clearly understood every metric associated to the values and buyer necessities are endlessly improved.

Now ask your self which group would you wish to be a part of? Get began, turn into a transformational chief.

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