Understanding momentum and the role it plays in change is a vital skill for leaders. Too many times, usually at the beginning of deploying strategy, momentum is created only to lose it within a short period of time because systematic momentum events were not planned by the leaders.

1.  Robert Baird
President
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Leadership Skill of
Momentum
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2. Momentum
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Where:

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7. Building Momentum
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Autonomous Team
Projects
Team Project Wins
People
Development
Short Project
Wins
Quick
Wins

8. 1. Quick Wins
• Start with a visually
managed idea board
• Implement “just do it”
ideas
• Standard Work for
Leaders
• Value Stream Worker
Involvement
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9. 2. Short Project Wins
• Support group projects, tangible results within
two weeks (selected from Idea Board)
– 5S removing waiting waste
– IT projects facilitating data entry from value stream
– Safety projects related to ergonomics
– Engineering projects improving productivity
– Lean projects reducing transportation and motion
– HR projects removing non-value add policy
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10. 3. People Development
• Improving employee engagement
– Knowledge share programs
– Pay for skills
– Empowerment plan
– TWI-JI training structure
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11. 4. Team Project Wins
• Identify projects from Idea Board within Team
control
– Kaizen event plan
– Allocate time for problem solving sessions
– Team Facilitator support (Supervisors)
– Visually manage A3
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12. 5. Autonomous Team Projects
• Develop Autonomous Team organization
structure
• Provide strategy aligned targets
• Empower teams to select projects to achieve
their strategy related targets
• Visually manage A3
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Contact Us
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