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When it comes to solving problems in your business, what is the most valuable and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are heading up the operation, the owner, all you have to do is convey what you want. Your verdict is law and everyone has to do what you say. But are you sure that the decision you made is the best possible answer to your problem? Is the response that you came up with what will answer the situation or just delay the inevitable? Is only asking the view or contribution from one colleague the very best way to go about solving a problem or is it better to get a judgment and ideas from many people? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with many participants working on it. When various views and various perspectives are viewed through, the better it is to come up with new ideas. The combined knowledge and worldview and skill of numerous different workers is much broader and much more varied than if it is restricted to just one person. That individual may have a lot of skill and be extremely knowledgeable, but when you gain access to multiple brains and multiple ideas, you are nearly always more likely to get a favorable result.
This collection of people, this group that you choose to assemble will need some aid getting started. Who is best to put on your team? It is always going to be a little different and for each problem you may want to have a different team leader. You want your leader to be an individual that everybody can get behind and that everyone respects. You also need them to be experienced about what they are looking at and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the group, then more than likely they are all of the above. This group is going to be in charge of for a large undertaking and they will be looked at to resolve the problem and do it as capably and cost effective as possible. You will want people on the team that has experience working with these types of teams and has knowledge with teams and lean manufacturing in general. You will also want group members that are diverse in their job duties and are up and down the management ladder. You do not want a team that is merely comprised of upper management or only workers on the floor. If you do this, then you will not get the views and the different perspectives that you require. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more possibilities you will get an idea or perception that you weren’t expecting and that might be original to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a team can often be a mixture of ideas that come from the entire group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the brainstorming that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more completely.