Lean manufacturing and teams
Team work is a popular word these days. Most of the organizations have formally formed teams to fulfill its tasks. When it comes to lean manufacturing lean and team has a very close relationship. Success of lean implementation directly relies on its teams and their effectiveness. In simple terms No team means No lean.
Building an effective team is not an easy task. It involves lots of hard work. Managing the change, training the members of the team and creating the culture of team work are not easy tasks. People are the most important resource of any organization. In this exercise of team building every organization must make sure that they do not de motivate their employees.
Do we have an alternative to team building? No is my answer. But certainly we can make the process of team building simpler. There are informal teams in every organization. They actually are very powerful in many aspects. Most often these informal teams or clicks consist of people from various departments of the organization. People in these teams have many common interests and sometimes close personal relationships as well. All these are attributes of good teams. But unfortunately these informal teams might not be useful in achieving organizational objectives. Sometimes these teams might have a negative effect on your organization. So what to do with these teams?
Simplest and best way to build effective teams is to change the objectives of these informal teams and to align them to the organizational goals. This is not easy and will not succeed every time. But if worked out these teams will perform much better than a conventionally team. Most of the traditional managers are not comfortable with these informal teams. They focus on breaking these teams down and create new teams. But in most of the organizations these informal teams are much more powerful than formally created teams. So why not just rail them to get to the destination organization wants. They will perform much better than a newly buildup teams. Lean thinkers can use these best in the transformation of a conventional organization to a lean organization. Team building is an art every lean manufacturer must learn.
Building an effective team is not an easy task. It involves lots of hard work. Managing the change, training the members of the team and creating the culture of team work are not easy tasks. People are the most important resource of any organization. In this exercise of team building every organization must make sure that they do not de motivate their employees.
Do we have an alternative to team building? No is my answer. But certainly we can make the process of team building simpler. There are informal teams in every organization. They actually are very powerful in many aspects. Most often these informal teams or clicks consist of people from various departments of the organization. People in these teams have many common interests and sometimes close personal relationships as well. All these are attributes of good teams. But unfortunately these informal teams might not be useful in achieving organizational objectives. Sometimes these teams might have a negative effect on your organization. So what to do with these teams?
Simplest and best way to build effective teams is to change the objectives of these informal teams and to align them to the organizational goals. This is not easy and will not succeed every time. But if worked out these teams will perform much better than a conventionally team. Most of the traditional managers are not comfortable with these informal teams. They focus on breaking these teams down and create new teams. But in most of the organizations these informal teams are much more powerful than formally created teams. So why not just rail them to get to the destination organization wants. They will perform much better than a newly buildup teams. Lean thinkers can use these best in the transformation of a conventional organization to a lean organization. Team building is an art every lean manufacturer must learn.
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