BASICS® Check by Implementing Leadership Development and Standard Work

The Executive Team must clearly define the future role of the group leader and develop leader standard work and train and coach middle management on how to supervise team members effectively using their new skills and tools. Leader standard work is part of the Leadership Development Path, which provides a sustainable system to integrate, improve, and sustain changes with daily feedback to realign and solve problems as they arise. Particularly, the successful Lean transformation entails leaders' buy-in, passion, self-participation, drive, and unwavering commitment starting from the Lean preparation, setting up Lean model line, aligning and indoctrinating Lean principles, developing Lean talents, leader standard work, to sustaining Lean culture. Thereby, as long as the Lean model line has been equipped with Lean layouts and stations, it is crucial to start leader standard work.