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Leading the Engagement process

When people get motivated, they will endure hardship and suffering to achieve their goal. If it is something they find compelling in the words of the song....aint no mountain high enough. Some organisations are better than others at tapping into this rich vein of motivation. Those that do it well make improvement a central part of their day to day routine by support the 6 principles of successful engagement these are:

1. Create an interest;
2. Supply just enough information;
3. Provide practical activity to support learning from experience;
4. Provide points of conclusion to reinforce sense of achievement;
5. Help participants to visualise how the new information fits with existing practices;
6.Provide follow up coaching.

To find out more about how to emulate best in class improvement programme design, click here

For more about how to develop and sustain a proactive improvement process linking leadership intent to the shop floor reality click here.

Action Learning Programmes

The core of the engagement process lies in the setting of accountabilities, supporting progress and and giving recognition. Together these produce an action learning process capable of engaging the whole organisation. They provide a framework for teams to apply improvement tools and secure measurable benefits reinforcing lessons learned and building confidence to address future challenges

For more information about Action learning programmes click here. The link also also sets out the four improvement roles needed to deliver lasting improvement.

Lean TPM

Lean TPM provides a comprehensive set of improvement tools to deliver best in class performance no matter where your organisation is on its journey to operational excellence. This includes structured improvement templates to

  • improve asset reliability and support progress towards zero breakdowns and beyond;
  • support business process improvement and the reduction of non value adding activities;
  • build front line team capability to improve performance, establish and refine best practices;
  • Improve the pace of delivery of new products, equipment, processes or systems;
  • Develop Innovative/step out products and services.

Click on the blue text to fInd out about how Lean TPM provides an enterprise wide improvement route map based on the lessons learned by organisations who have achieved long term award winning levels of performance and market leading capability.

For those who are designing and implementing improvement strategies access our article data base for solutions to business growth and continuous improvement problems. Click on the following link or use the pull down menu at the top of the page.

In addition to consultancy support to develop in house capability, we provide a series of practical hands on training workshops. For a summary of our current training courses click here .
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Book Review: Lean TPM, A Blueprint for Change
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Recently published Lean TPM, a blueprint for change was written by Dennis McCarthy of DAK consulting with Nick Rich of Cardiff Business School Lean Institute.
For an overview of Lean TPM click here.

Who are DAK Consulting
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We specialise in supporting improvement teams in manufacturing and process industries. We provide advice, coaching, training and where appropriate the hands on support to develop in house capability.

Our core competencies are:

- Business process leadership;
- Project improvement;
- Operational Excellence.

Further details of our consultancy services can be downloaded in zip PDF format using the link below.

pdf logo DAK Support, What is it worth? click here for the file

What does DAK stand for?
 The journey to excellence begins with clear Direction and ends with Knowledge of how to deliver results and progress further. DAK stand for Direction And Knowledge to support end to end business improvement.

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