Management
Visual management: first level
A badly designed team board becomes a noticeboard nobody looks at after a month. One day to build yours, decide what deserves a place on it, and run the daily meeting so the team takes ownership of it rather than putting up with it.
What you will be able to do
- Understand the strengths and uses of visual management
- Strengthen your team's performance and sense of ownership
- Put the tool in place
- Master running the tool and handle any resistance to it
Programme
Opening round and expectations
- Each participant's expectations on the subject
- Common-thread workshop: an analysis focused on your own department
The fundamentals of visual management
- What visual management is, and what you can expect from it
- Making team communication and mobilisation easier
- The power of visual communication
- The posture of a visual manager
- What is worth measuring in your team
- Common-thread workshop in pairs: what concrete benefit would your department get from it?
Where visual management applies
- Steering a team's activity and performance
- Setting up key standards and quality, customer-service or safety markers
- Common-thread workshop: defining your department's criteria
Keys to an effective implementation
- Ritualising: who facilitates, how often, in what form (top-down, delegated, co-development)
- Defining the ground rules and values that frame the tool
- Indicators aligned with the vision and the team, and readable colour codes
- Everyone's posture: open questions, rephrasing, non-violent communication
- Common-thread workshop: who will facilitate, how often, with which rules and values?
Continuous improvement
- The Deming cycle (PDCA)
- Running retrospectives: what works, what works less well
- Making results visible for more transparency and responsiveness
- Mind mapping and solution trees as shared thinking methods
- Common-thread workshop: which topics deserve collective thinking, and with which method?
Designing the implementation steps
- The rules and stages of change, and why co-construction matters
- Logistics: materials, boards, locations
- Common-thread workshop: announcing the change and the working sessions, involving one team member and then the team
What this training gives you
Capturing attention, mobilising the team and involving it in the objectives that matter: the success criteria, the work in progress, and what is blocked.
One day, at the end of which you have your board, not an example of a board.
Why it works well in Mauritian industry
Textiles, food processing and manufacturing account for a large share of the teams trained here, and these are settings where a physical board keeps a decisive advantage: the team walks past it twice a day and never opens a dashboard.
Service floors find a second, different use for it: making the gap between the day’s target and actual output visible without turning it into a display of individual performance, which is precisely what makes teams reject the tool.
Questions about this training
Do we need software?
No, and the day advises against starting there. A physical board placed where the team already walks past works better than a dashboard nobody opens, especially when part of the team does not work at a screen.
How many indicators on a board?
Few. The most common failure is a board carrying everything that can be measured, which the team stops reading within a fortnight. Choosing what deserves a place takes up most of the day.
Does it work outside production?
Yes. Visual management comes from industry, but the version taught here serves a service floor, a hotel team or an administrative department just as well. The point is to make the day visible, not to run an assembly line.
What happens after the day?
Participants leave with a board designed for their own team and a way of running it. The real next question, covered at the end of the day, is what to change on the board after the first month.
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