Boeing's Employee Involvement Story: The Magic is in the People
Rich Nicholson , Charles Macias
Boeing
2007, Nov 6
Annotation: Boeing--a two-time Baldridge recipient-- is flying high as a strength-based organizational model. How do you elevate-and-extend all the strengths in the system? The answer: it's all about teams--high engagement, strength-based teams, designing breakthrough innovation. Come hear how Boeing’s development of over 3,000 Employee Involvement teams across the organization unleashed a cultural revolution from command and control to team empowerment, resulting in extraordinary return on investment through performance, innovation, and employee and customer satisfaction. Learn directly from Boeing leaders how they successfully connected the strengths of their entire system through a team-based cultural transformation.
Starting with the astonishing turnaround of the C-17 operations--a failing business now a named by the military as a "national treasure"—workshop leaders share the organizational ingredients that have resulted in a formula for long-term sustainable success. By exploring how Boeing applied the positive philosophy of AI and a powerful configuration of training tools, storytelling, and rigorous business results analysis, participants will leave the workshop not only inspired, but equipped to catalyze a similar kind of revolution in their own workplaces.
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Slides from Boeing (pdf )
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