Mistake Proofing Leadership

For leaders who want the best for and from their employees Leadership and management is not easy. Most in those positions end up relying on their native intelligence, what worked before, shooting from the hip and what others suggest. In an engaging story of a group of leaders in a series of workshops, Mistake-Proofing Leadership teaches the reader proven tools to form teams, solve problems, promote change and a host of other important business activities. Learn what to do, when to do it, how to do it and avoid doing it poorly. Join a collaborative leadership workshop with eight others. Enjoy discovering new ways of leading, including mistake-proofing your mistake-proofing.

Many leaders find themselves ill-prepared for the position. Most try hard, applying what they know as best they can and relying on the power of their intellect, personality, position or sheer determination. Mistake-Proofing Leadership provides effective models to use in many leadership situations so the leader knows exactly what to do, how to measure success and how to continually improve. Some of the models are classics, others are new. The reader will also learn how to create and test favorite models using the bundles approach.

Mistake-proofing is a method for eliminating mistakes and defects to ensure that quality products and services are produced.

This is the Leader's Guide that accompanies the Mistake-Proofing for Operators Learning Package.

" ... a step-by-step process that can be used to help create a very efficient error-free organization that will be able to compete with the best of companies"--Page 7.

This book explains how to sustain lean, or, continuous improvement practices. It introduces the BASICS® lean leadership development path, combining the "human aspect" with published BASICS® lean tools. It lays out the methodology to empower, lead, and drive ongoing improvements in your business. The book includes engaging stories and case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of shop floor management tactics, including visual management tools, gemba walks, standard work, time analysis, kanban, 5S, and more.

If your goal is 100% zero defects, here is the book for you — a completely illustrated guide to poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) for supervisors and shop-floor workers. Many poka-yoke ideas come from line workers and are implemented with the help of engineering staff or tooling or machine specialists. The result is better product quality and greater participation by workers in efforts to improve your processes, your products, and your company as a whole. The first section of the book uses a simple, illustrated format to summarize many of the concepts and main features of poka-yoke. The second section shows 240 examples of poka-yoke improvements implemented in Japanese plants. The book: Organizes examples according to the broad issue or problem they address. Pinpoints how poka-yoke applies to specific devices, parts and products, categories of improvement methods, and processes. Provides sample improvement forms for you to sketch out your own ideas. Use Poka-yoke in study groups as a model for your improvement efforts. It may be your single most important step toward eliminating defects completely. (For an industrial engineering perspective on how source inspection and poka-yoke can work together to reduce defects to zero, see Shigeo Shingo's Zero Quality Control.)

A combination of source inspection and mistake-proofing devices is the only method to get you to zero defects. Shigeo Shingo shows you how this proven system for reducing errors turns out the highest quality products in the shortest period of time. Shingo provides 112 specific examples of poka-yoke development devices on the shop floor, most of them costing less than $100 to implement. He also discusses inspection systems, quality control circles, and the function of management with regard to inspection.