Build Your Future Leadership
Helping Overwhelmed Business Owners to Reach Their Potential as Leaders and Improving Their Business Processes to Higher Profits in Their Mechanical Production Space
Who Am I?
“How We Increased Sales by Over 26% In Less Than 2 Years -Taking operational excellence to the next level”
One of the latest assignments was to improve the output of a manufacturing company in Asia region, which led to a new factory site was built, and was seeking to improve manufacturing systems and performance.During the assessment and process reviews, a number of areas of change were identified and implemented over the following 24 months.
CHALLENGE
Although the company was successful the efficiency was low, caused by old machine park and lack of maintenance. Due to growth the human resources had not gotten the right attentions in the introduction and continuous training of the employees.A new ERP system was introduced, the old data was imported which had data that was not accurate which created a lot of planning issues for material management and production management to be able utilize the capacity correctly.
SOLUTION
Planning and Performance
A production planning system was developed to enable performance to be measured, and the performance vs plan figures improved from 32% average to 70% within 12 months of introducing the measures and reviewing downtime reasons.The capacity across machines was revisited and planning was able to be more correctly planned due to accurate data.The costing of products was reviewed to ensure all work was operating at a demanded margin.The workforce was re-trained and evaluated, using the FACT (Formal, Actual, Competence, Training) model, which led to a increase efficiency of 28%.
Lean & Waste Reduction
The factory was re-designed to run with one-piece flow to increase the efficiency and reduce the lead-times.In line operation of secondary activities was instigated to minimize unnecessary handling.After the re-layout and implementation of OpEx projects we measured increased yearly production output with EUR 15Mio, complaints and purchasing costs down with EUR 700K respective EUR 450K.Recycling of waste was reviewed, and further materials was able to be introduced, which significantly reduced waste generation, storage and handling.
Standards
Digital web-based performance & efficiency boards was introduced to provide hourly performance information at a glance.5S was re-introduced to organize and improve efficiency in work areas.
It’s a fantastic feeling to work with people and help them develop their skills and knowledge to improve their career paths. With projects like this, it’s not just seeing the client’s people and business growth that is so satisfying, it’s also about the gratification to see and feel the change of the people involved and the up-skill they have achieved. It is always fantastic to be together with a client during their journey to continuous improvement and becoming a learning organization. Continuous Improvement always starts with the people.
Mr. Bjorn Vikard, former Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director is a transformational business builder with expertise in leading global multi-million-dollar organizations in mechanical manufacturing industries, as well as extensive experience supporting all aspects of the establishment of start-up companies. Specializes in driving business transformation, overhauling failing business models, and enhancing operational performance. He applies cultural sensitivity and unique expertise in managing multi-cultural organizations across Southeast Asia to build credibility with diverse stakeholders.
About My Program
Who It Is For?
I work with Business Owners who want to expand their business in the Mechanical Production Industry space. They lack knowledge of developing and implementing the right strategy to grow their business and lose focus on their goals. They face problems in production, logistics, and planning and have nonskilled staff to work in sensitive areas. They are facing a crisis regularly which affects their production quality, and increase expenses and costs. This leads to non-satisfied clients, a bad reputation, and a negative bottom line, as they fail to scale up their business.
By working with Bjorn, they will get assessed on problem areas and know the root, from where the same are arising. They will get an action plan based on PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) method and will have complete clarity on the action steps to be taken, new processes to be introduced, changing of some outdated processes, and skill up their staff. This will help them to better their product, upscale their production, and lower their costs, leading to more satisfied clients, a better workplace environment, a robust bottom line, and a razor-sharp focus on their immediate and long-term goals.
Who It Is Not For?
This program is not for
- Business owners who don’t want to see or fear change
- Want to look good to the stakeholders, not interested in improving their businesses
- Can’t listen to others to improve themselves, their employees, or the current business situation
- Business Owners who are not serious about positive growth
Module One
Act with Confidence
Outcome
An actionable strategy plan with support from owners, management, and employees
- How to create a Mission & Vision for your organization?
- What to and how to analyze your business
- How you build your strategic options
- How do you define your objectives and your targets?
- Build your roadmap for the next years
- Understand the required resources for the plan
- Implement your strategy and the necessity to follow up regularly on the results
Description
If you feel you lack confidence in yourselves because you are not sure how to grow the business, then it’s time to put a strategy in place. By learning how to build a strategy using 7 steps process you will bring back your confidence and visualize a roadmap for the future growth of your company.
Module Two
Motivate Thru Structure
Outcome
Assessing the whole organization’s structure, needs, and competence levels to be able to delegate responsibilities and authority to the right levels
- Understanding the organizational structure and the specific needs of your company
- Perform competence evaluations to understand the gaps vs. the needs
- Create job descriptions and standard operating procedures to train all employees to the right levels
- Create a training system with evaluation and validation to ensure the necessary competencies are achieved
- Having a Human Resources system that handles authorities and competencies with clarity
Description
Has your business stagnated because you can’t let go of responsibilities and have the need to micromanage your employees? Learning how to do an organizational assessment and get an understanding of how your organization needs to be structured efficiently, what competencies it requires and how to evaluate the employees to match them with the necessary requirements. Learn how this all is connected to the recruitment process you can recruit the best person for the specific requirement.
Module Three
Upskilling for Growth
Outcome
The key to having good retention is to take care of the employees so they feel appreciated and have growth possibilities in the company. Thru this module, a business owner can create a system that establishes sustainability thru continuous employee growth
- Understand your processes of exit interviews, Onboarding process, training program, execution as planned, etc
- Develop countermeasures together with your team of Employees
- Established the Master plan and Steering committee
- Understand and implementation of Kaizen events
- Coaching and training of the Steering Committee
- Introduced sustainment activities
Description
If you have employees that don’t feel appreciated, empowered, or challenged sooner they will start looking at new opportunities, therefore it is important for you to have a good HR system in place to ensure the employees are getting continuous learning. Start planning your employee’s competencies and their growth from day one, by up-skill them they will feel more appreciated, and their job quality will improve thru standard work, which leads to better retention.
Module Four
Changing the Mindset
Outcome
Thru understanding themselves they will be able to communicate, empower, and set expectations within the company
- Understand what leadership is
- Learn how to communicate based on situations
- Understand how to give and receive feedback thru listening
- How to use Hopes and Fears to develop your leadership
- How to use influencing in a positive way
- Learn how to manage conflicts in a team
- How you can empower your employees to take action
Description
If your current mindset makes you feel that you don’t have the knowledge about how you should lead the company and how to handle stressful situations with employees in uncertain times. Following the process of developing self-awareness, communication, and feedback loop will lead to becoming a trusted decision maker while still knowing how to be the “Captain of the ship taking them thru the rough seas safely”.
Module Five
Leadership Empowerment
Outcome
Leaders that coach their people and do not micromanage their employees so can focus more on strategic concerns for the company
- Develop Self-Awareness
- Listening and communicating as a leader
- Giving and receiving feedback
- How to handle a performance review
- How to develop others
- Influencing with and without authority
- Leading change and building positive habits
Description
There are people considered to be good or bad leaders, but without training, coaching, and in some cases having a mentor, most will never become great leaders. If you want to become a great leader this module will give you the foundation to start that journey. If you want your leaders to be servant leaders so they will be empowered to build their own teams that will be coached, empowered, and will create growth for the company.
Module Six
Strategize Your Growth
Outcome
An actionable strategy plan with support from owners and employees
- How do you create a Mission & Vision?
- How to analyze your business
- How you develop strategic options
- How do you define your Objectives
- Build your execution plan
- Understand the required resources for the plan
- Implement your improvement strategy
Description
How do you take care of your problems? Many companies don’t plan for problems, so firefighting is the normal process. If you are a business owner who is looking at future growth, you will have put in place an operational improvement strategy and budgeted for it. Learning the steps from assessment/analysis, defining the root causes, and defining an actionable plan based on what areas are most critical for financial sustainability and future growth will both give personal growth to you and also help in the growth of the company.
Module Seven
An Intro to Customer Satisfaction
Outcome
Execute assessment and thru the established action plan using Kaizen events to improve the process/resolve the current problems they are facing
- How to set Objectives and Goals
- How to use PDCA
- How to assess an organization on an operational level and what tools can be used
- How to use the most common root cause analysis tools
- How to run Kaizen events or projects
- How to reach sustainable results in a project
Description
If you ever had a call from an upset customer that didn’t receive your product as expected, and you didn’t have the answer to answer the customer in a good way. To prevent future calls, you must understand your current processes and gaps. Learning how to assess the process effectively, understand the root cause, and put actions in place that will lead to a satisfied customer is crucial for anyone who owns a business.
Module Eight
Results Thru Kaizen
Outcome
Perform root cause analysis and using Kaizen or other improvement methods to resolve specific problem
- Understand the difference between symptom and root cause
- Learning what PDCA is and the practical use of it
- How to use action plans more effective
- Learn the use of Ishikawa and 5Why tools in root cause analysis
- Understand the different Kaizen and when to use the correct one for the specific problem
Description
Are you seeing margins going in a negative direction and you start feeling stressed? Learning the tools and methods to analyze data to see what causes the margins to go down there is most likely more than one reason but without having the skillset to use root cause analysis tools and improvement methods to reduce the problems, so the margins are coming back up. By learning how to use Kaizen events, you and your team will learn what you need to do to understand the problem, analyze the data and implement improvement activities, and follow up that the outcome is the expected.