Back to the future: The daily management time machine
OVERVIEW
For Marty McFly, one seemingly small event creates an entirely different future. Organizations experience the same phenomenon every day.
Daily management systems do more than reveal performance; they quietly shape behavior. Over time, what teams see, discuss and escalate each day influences how they think, respond and engage. Like the alternate timelines in Back to the Future, organizations can develop dramatically different behaviors while believing they are moving toward the same destination.
Using “1.21 Gigawatts,” Skyler shares the journey of harmonizing daily management systems across 13 business units, each with its own 48-year history, culture and approach.
Hop in the DeLorean to explore how organizations can raise standards without removing local ownership. Participants will examine how standardizing critical elements creates a shared understanding of current conditions, improves the flow of information from the shop floor to executive huddles and helps organizations intentionally design their future rather than create it by accident.
Key Learning Objectives
1. Daily management systems as behavior shaping mechanisms
2. Tiered huddle boards and information flow
3. Classical conditioning as a lens for system design
4. Harmonizing standards for visual management and shared understanding
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Skyler Coleman is a lifelong learner and a hands-on change agent that turns everyday people into every-day improvers.
Coleman serves as the senior continuous improvement black belt at Ultradent Products where he has spent over a decade in operations and continuous improvement driving cross-functional improvements and championing lean thinking at all levels of the organization.His practical, people-centered approach stems from a progression through chemical formulation and management roles into enterprise improvement and mentoring.
