Team Huddles: Bringing Improvement into Daily Work
Pam Vecellio • April 30, 2021
Focus and engage team members in achieving goals, identifying problems (daily), joining in solving problems and implementing improvements. Team Continual Improvement System™ (CIS™) process and huddling around the CIS™ board is a fantastic way to increase adoption of improvements more quickly and sustain more improvements longer.
Goal of Team Huddles:
To learn the process of leading my team in routine team problem solving sessions to focus together on performance measures and what and how to achieve goals together.
Benefits:
- Increase engagement and involvement of all team members.
- Engage everyone to understand the status of their efforts easily, visually, and independently.
- All team members understand and are focused on achieving team goals.
- Increased effectiveness of solutions.
- Increased team morale and pride.
- Increased adoption and compliance to improvement.
Agenda:
Training: 4 hours of interactive education with immediate implementation.
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM TRAINING
- Establishing the team huddle framework to engage staff in everyday CI processes by following the PDSA, improvement, cycle.
- Understanding team huddles and where they are used.
- Appreciating the benefits huddles can bring.
- Establishing team huddles boards.
- Practice leading a team huddle, including identifying/confirming team performance measures, problem identification, problem solving practice, and converting discussions into actions.
~1 hour PM IMPLEMENTATION
- In work location: establish huddle board location, confirm performance measures, and add morning content to the board
- Convene the individual teams. Introduce the huddle. Conduct a huddle meeting to identify action(s) to address a team-based problem.
Application and Coaching: One-on-one coaching until results are achieved.
