The importance of Leader Standard Work for more effective Operations Management

It's essential for managers, especially in manufacturing organisations, to spend time on running the business (performance control) and improving the business (process and people improvement). In practice, many managers are sucked into the daily business unless they can block time in their calendar for coaching, process improvement, guiding root cause problem solving.
This is a big part of a leader's standard work - making sure that you're also covering all the bases when it comes to the responsibilities of the manager's role and optimally supporting your team.

Production tends to have a rhythm, not exactly the same in each factory, but the broads strokes are similar enough to discuss a couple of common tips and themes for organising a production manager's calendar. Tips that will allow you to plan enough time for those activities that drive performance in the longer run while not ignoring that all-important daily control.

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[aaronharveymusic]

Hey Tom, I've been watching your videos for about a year now. I work in the biopharmaceutical industry in fill/finish manufacturing (filling vials of medicine). I know you work in the food industry but.a lot of your content is transferrable (like you say, continuous improvement in the industrial setting). I just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and for publishing the highly specialized and valuable content for free, it is making a difference in my life and helping me perform better manufacturing investigations. You're doing a great thing helping a lot of people with your work, you might not realize the trickle effect of what you're doing but you're making a big difference.

[GeonQuuin]

This is such an awesome coincidence. I'm currently on my lunch break but 15 minutes ago, I just finished proposing a project to create standard work for our shop floor supervisors and working leads to our site's senior leadership team!

[toyhej]

This is excellent!! Really good tips for me as a new manager. THANK YOU!