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When it comes to figuring out problems in your company, what is the most valuable and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are the boss, the owner, all you have to do is convey what youdesire. Your decision is unquestioned and the group has to do what you say. But are you sure that the choice you made is the best possible answer to your problem? Is the answerconclusion that you came up with what will answer the question or just postpone the unavoidable? Is only asking the view or input from one employee the very best way to go about solving a predicament or is it better to get a view and ideas from multiple individuals? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with diverse people working on it. When various views and varying perspectives are looked through, the easier it is to discover new ideas. The shared familiarity and worldview and skill of lots of different colleagues is much broader and much more varied than if it is restricted to just one individual. That individual may have plenty of experience and be very educated, but when you add access to many thoughts and lots of ideas, you are almost always more likely to get a better outcome.
This grouping of individuals, this group that you are going 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 another team leader. You want your leader to be somebody that all members can rally behind and that everyone respects. You also need them to be competent about what they are working with and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the members, then more than likely they are all of the above. This group is going to be accountable for a big task and they will be looked at to solve the situation and do it as efficiently and cost effective as possible. You will want an individual on the team that has practice working with these types of teams and has experience with groups and lean manufacturing in general. You will also want group members that are mixed in their job duties and are up and down the management ladder. You do not want a team that is strictly comprised of upper management or only workers on the factory floor. If you do this, then you will not get the ideas and the varied perspectives that you want. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more opportunities you will get an suggestion or perception that you weren’t expecting and that might be innovative to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a group can often be a mixture of views that come from the entire group. Often, the final product is a combination of all of the ideas that has come before it, but fleshes out the idea more completely.