Future State offers introductory programs online and in person.

Video One

Follow a simple and direct path to excellence by Thinking Lean

o   Inspire a Healthy Organization through “Restoring Your Health”—for both physical and emotional safety

o   Seek Everyday Clarity – developing alignment for strategic direction with Breakthrough Initiatives while encouraging creative thinking and innovative action

o   Always Respect your People—individually, including employees, customers, and society in general

o   Strive to Continually Improve every part of your organizational system moment of every day through a team of teams

Video Two

Restoring emotional and physical health

o   The impact of Childhood Acquired Trauma (CAT) on emotional and physical health

o   How Adult Acquired Trauma (AAT) limits success in life and the workplace

o   Know what happened to you and accept it as part of your “Brutal Truth.”

o   “…maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties,…” (Jim Collins, The Stockdale Paradox)

Video Three

Respect for People

o   The first Pillar of the Toyota Production System (Lean Thinking)

o   Instruction from Dr. W. Edwards Deming

o   Paul H. O’Neill on employee and customer safety

o   Foundation for convergent dialogue, creative thinking, and innovative ideas

Video Four

Strive for Continuous Improvement

o   Treat your organization as a system of interconnected parts that talk to each other every day

o   Go to the Gemba every day seeking and recording problems faced by your staff

o   Understand the Current State through knowing every analytical and improvement tool, the material used and get a sense of what it all does.

o   Solve every problem at the lowest level of the organization using scientific principles that visibly measure and show real improvement

 Video Five

Build your Organizational System of Sustainability Deliberately

o   Use a Breakthrough Initiative for alignment. “We will achieve measurable world-class organizational fitness for management.”

o   Develop a system of visual communication for daily use

o   Chart every pathway of improvement from a Current State to a Future State, making it simple and functional by eliminating waste in all forms.

o   Solve every problem using the scientific method based on agreed upon priority determined according to total benefit.

Custom video training modules.

  • Investment in Performance Improvement payback through creation of value and elimination of waste

  • Recognizing and accepting problems through recording and writing problem statements—The Stockdale Paradox

  • Breakthrough Initiatives—an alternative path to strategic planning through defining your Future State

  • A path to employee engagement using the Roger’s Innovation Curve and Deming’s 14 Points

  • Work as a system with blaming and shaming eliminated

  • Employee and Customer Safety with Paul H. O’Neill as your guide

  • Understanding your Current State with an in-depth leadership assessment

  • Workplace Organization in one day through 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain

  • Effective meeting using Robert’s Rules of Order the right way and eliminating bullying

  • Developing Standard Work for Governance and Performance Reporting

  • Continuous Improvement to world class one process at a time

  • Implementing a just in time procurement system

  • Moving from Command & Control to Team of Teams

  • How to prioritize essential initiatives through teams and a project management board

  • Aggregating Marginal Gains for Amazing Results

  • Starting respectful conversations through Divergent Conversations (Yellow Stickies)

  • Identifying must do projects

When you want to pursue perfection and learn the tools that take you there, Future State will work with you for a monthly fee for coaching and an additional daily fee when training or improvement events are needed.

à Up to X hours of coaching monthly