Define and follow the leader’s standard work
Set what a leader does every day and every week to sustain improvement, and check whether they did it.
The task in figures
- Gives you back
- 1.4 h a monthper team; today it takes 4.3 to 8.7 h a month
- Elmira today
- Helps
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Who does it today
- Senior, Lead
- Version
- Elmira Senior
What hurts today.
Urgent matters fill the calendar, and the routines go first.
The routine lives on a sheet nobody checks.
Nobody knows whether the leader followed it until something fails.
A leader’s standard work says which meetings they facilitate, which walks they do and what they check, every day and every week. Without it, urgent matters fill the leader’s calendar, and the system’s routines are the first to go. Defining it is the start; the hard part is following it: holding each meeting on time, seeing whether it was done and talking with a coach about why not.
Done today with
- Expert
- In-person meeting
- Paper and whiteboard
- Spreadsheet
- Email and chat
Each step, today and with Elmira.
Obeyaka opens the leader’s meetings on time and tells them of the briefing on WhatsApp. Elmira tells them which meetings they closed and which of their actions are due, to review their routine with their coach.
| Step | Today | With Elmira |
|---|---|---|
| Define what the leader does every day and every week | Expert, Paper and whiteboard30 min – 1 h | Still by hand |
| Put their meetings on the calendar | Email and chat10 min – 20 min | Obeyaka (web) |
| Open their meetings on time, and tell them of the briefing | Email and chat5 min – 10 min | Automatic |
| Check whether they held their meetings and did what they promised | Spreadsheet, Expert15 min – 30 min | |
| Talk with their coach about why not, and adjust it | In-person meeting | Your call |
The conversation
- Diego, Maintenance lead
Elmira, how am I doing with my routine this week?
You closed Maintenance’s briefing on Monday, and Thursday’s debriefing is still open. Of your actions, 2 are due this week and 1 is overdue: reviewing the lubrication plan.
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More cases of routines and daily management
- Run the start-of-shift daily huddleThe board shows data from days ago, and nobody trusts it.
- Run the team’s weekly briefingThe meeting goes on looking for data instead of deciding.
- Run the team’s weekly debriefingThe week closes without looking back, and the same problems come back.