Small teams of volunteers from all over the organization are the vectors of transformation. They are vehicles that spread new behaviors, new values and create new structures. Each small team is a vessel of the new culture where the newly, invented structures meet.
The teams’ tasks:
Coached by peer coaches who use the Prescriptive Transformation Values to push
and produce new behaviors, the volunteer teams implement the structural
changes required to push the organization in the new direction. It is these
volunteers who create the new culture, not only with new behavior, but also by
building an organization that will continue to support and nurture new ways of
behaving.
The team’s structure:
The teams are self-managed, small and non-hierarchical. The teams consist
of volunteers from the large numbers of people who do the hands-on work in the
organization and make many small, high leverage changes quickly.
Team success story:
In one microelectronics company we worked with, one small team re-invented work
distribution in an area of the plant. It took less than 90 days to implement
this change and people in the area became much more productive.
This increased pressure on adjacent parts of the manufacturing system so changes had to be made so that other departments could keep up. Morale rose because people were able to do a variety of work. The increased productivity and higher morale reduced scrap and defects and increased overall output of the plant.