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current and expected company performance, and document any key company ‘change’ activities already completed and any planned for the future? Dr Kristak completed his highly- participative verbal briefing and cleared the room while he set up the wherewithal for an active session of role play.
ACTIVE ROLE PLAY
Although everyone worked hard at their tasks, only two motorbikes were completed within this period – and one was sub-standard. Dr Kristak worked out the dramatic company financial loss such a situation could have caused. The production manager and team took the bull by the horns, planned a new production layout and production process, and the business of putting together the product began again. The new thinking that had taken place meant that, after a further 15-minute production run, the team was able to reduce its losses very significantly, delivering more complete, perfect products at the end of the line.
A POWERFUL TAKEAWAY MESSAGE
This was a fine practical example of innovation in action that really impressed all the participants, and delivered a powerful takeaway message from the conference, which President Kilarska then brought to a close. She thanked the two enormously-inspiring workshop leaders and the panel discussion participants, as well as the event’s sponsors – gold sponsors Avery Dennison, Labelexpo Global Series, Gallus Ferd. Rüesch, and silver sponsors Delfortgroup. She herself summarised the event’s takeaway very aptly, adjuring the delegates: ‘Put first things first, be proactive, find synergies in your LIFE... not just in work or in your personal life, but in your LIFE, because LIFE is not just work or family or friends, it is everything around you!’
Delegates were assigned different production/parts delivery and management roles in a company involved in manufacturing small toy motorcycles, provided with the practical items essential for success at different stages of production, and given 15 minutes to see what they could, as a team, achieve.
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