Systems2win Leadership Roles

What needs to be done to successfully implement Systems2win for multiple users

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Systems2win Champion

Serves as...

the primary contact for all things Systems2win

Ideal Profile

An enthusiastic senior or middle level manager with both:

1. Competence

   using a wide variety of
   tools and methods for process improvement

2. Coaching skills

   using a wide variety of
   tools and methods for lean management

(This is not an IT position)

In smaller organizations a single person might fill every one of the roles described on this page

In larger organizations your Systems2win Champion might personally fill some of these roles, and might coordinate the efforts of different individuals and teams to perform each of the roles described on this page

Responsibilities of your Systems2win Champion

1) Ensure installation success

Ensure that every user gets successfully installed

It's pretty hard to get any value from your tools if your users don't even have them installed

or upgraded to the latest version

Use your Multi-User Setup Checklist

to ensure that everything gets off to a great start including some foundational guidance for your Document Storage and Naming Conventions

2) Be the primary contact

Yes, all Systems2win users are free to contact Systems2win support directly,

and yet your users will be so much more successful if they have a motivated internal Systems2win Champion as an additional resource for support and mentoring.

Your Champion is also the primary contact for correspondence to and from Systems2win.

Tip: Make it easy on yourself, by emailing us a list of your user's names and emails, so we can add them to the Systems2win Customer Correspondence System

so that each of your users receives helpful tips for getting started, and notices of upcoming free trainings and newly released videos.

Time Requirements

If the sub-roles are delegated, then there isn't a lot of time required, but it comes in spurts:

• Initial installation
• Initial leadership
• Ad hoc questions
  and ongoing leadership

3) Lead

Use your Training Matrix template and mentoring sessions (both periodically scheduled and ad hoc) to ensure that each Team Leader completes their leadership responsibilities to ensure that every one of their team members gets installed, trained, and supported

(as described in the next section)

And again... in a small organization, your Systems2win Champion might be the only Team Leader

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Every Team Leader

Your Systems2win Champion should personally coach every team leader to maintain their own Training Matrix to ensure that every member of their team completes:

1) New User Training

so that your users don't get stuck with fundamental features common to every one of your 150+ Systems2win templates, and they get the most from their broad and deep arsenal of tools.

New User Training is available as either:

1. self-paced on-line learning, or
2. a monthly (free) instructor-led training class

2) Tool-specific Training

Your Systems2win Champion should also coach and mentor each Team Leader to use their Training Matrix to identify which tools are relevant to the responsibilities of each team member.

And then track the (ever improving) competence ratings for each tool that is helpful for each person's unique job responsibilities .

The tool-specific training completed by each team member might be any combination of:

1. Self-paced online training and videos
2. Instructor-led private training
   (facilitated by Systems2win or an Affiliate consultant)
3. Instructor-led internal training
   (facilitated by an internal trainer)

   perhaps using your Training Session Planning template, your Work Instructions template, your TWI Job Breakdown template, and/or any of your other training templates

     

Time Requirements

As soon as everyone on each team has completed their initial training...

then there should be very little further time requirement for the Team Leaders.

The tools should actually save time and improve consistency to help each team leader perform their most important and urgent assignments

that have the greatest impact on their bottom-line performance evaluation.

3) Leadership Coaching

In a lean cultural environment, every leader should be (at all times) grooming next-level leaders.

The Executive Change Agent and Systems2win Champion should establish internal systems for initial training and on-going coaching for:

1. Lean leadership
2. When and why to use different tools and methods
3. How to use (and how to teach and coach each next-level leader to use)

appropriate tools and methods for standardized work, strategic alignment, problem solving,decision making, and lean management for every step of a typical lean transformation.

Road map for a typical
Lean Transformation

 

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Time Requirements

If you have only a few users,
all with administrative permissions to install their own software...

only a few minutes of IT resources are needed

If you have lots of users with restricted permissions...

maybe a day

If you choose to write a custom installer script...

see that training

Systems2win IT Support

Assuming that you have more than 1 user...

your Systems2win IT Support person is responsible to work closely with your Systems2win Champion to:

• Complete every line item in the Multi-User Setup Checklist
• Make the best Portal Setup Decision
• Correctly set up your portal on your server
• Ensure that every user gets the Systems2win Excel add-in successfully installed on their computer

And each time that you upgrade...

• Do it all again, only this time following the upgrade setup instructions

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Systems2win Personalization Leader

If you (optionally) personalize any of your Systems2win master templates...
then your Systems2win Personalization Leader will:

Time Requirements

About half of Systems2win customers never personalize anything.

Training to personalize your first template takes a day.

Subsequent personalizations take less time.

• Learn how to personalize your Systems2win master templates

  in ways that will allow your personalizations to be automatically found and transferred every time you upgrade

• Do it. Personalize them

  using everything you know about familiar Microsoft Excel, and the ways that your Systems2win templates commonly extend the standard features of Excel

• Serve as the 'gatekeeper' for your master templates

  perhaps coaching some of your other leaders to easily provide their suggested improvements that your Personalization Leader then incorporates into your master templates

• Ensure that all personalizations get successfully transferred each time that you upgrade

  Tip: If you own the Systems2win Sync feature, then most of your personalizations will be automatically found and transferred to your new master templates each time that you upgrade.

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To summarize again...

Your Systems2win Champion might perform some or all of the above responsibilities alone

and your Systems2win Champion always has ultimate final responsibility for the successful completion of all of the above responsibilities — even if others are involved.

 

Your Systems2win Champion is also usually very much involved with but is NOT ultimately responsible for...

the following responsibilities of the Executive Change Agent.

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Executive Change Agent

The role of the Change Agent is described in detail in our Change Agent web page

Your Executive Change Agent has ultimate responsibility for the success of your overall Continuous Improvement program

(of which, your Systems2win tools are an important, but incomplete part)

The success of your Systems2win Chamion will be HIGHLY dependent upon the success of how well...

Your Change Agent Manages...

Head of Continuous Improvement

If your Executive Change Agent is not also directly responsible for leading continuous process improvement...

then your Change Agent will need to work very closely with that leader to ensure that every member of your Continuous Improvement Team is fully aware of the tools that your company owns and knows how to use them to greatly enhance your visual management systems.

Head of Training

If your Executive Change Agent is not also directly responsible for leading the systems design and training for your tools and methods for continuous improvement and coaching...

then your Change Agent will need to work VERY closely with those leaders.

The training and systems that come with your Systems2win templates will prove very helpful, but will be insufficient if your Systems2win tools and training are not seamlessly integrated into your larger programs for continuous improvement training, perhaps including (and not limited to):

• Training for Mental Models such as lean principles, lean transformation, how to identify the 7 types of waste, and other lean thinking
• Systems for standardized work, document control, and Job Instruction training to prevent backsliding into old habits
• Lean Management Systems including Tools and Systems for Training and perhaps some Private Training and Mentoring
  to provide your teams with the support they need to get off to a successful start

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Career Benefits

of Systems2win Leadership

Serving in any of the above leadership roles can be

Good for your career

• Greatly increased mastery of tools and methods for continuous process improvement
• Valuable coaching and mentoring, directly from Systems2win
• Visibility to (and working relationship with) senior managers and top-level executives
• Development of leadership and motivational skills (that can't rely on "because I'm your boss")
• Development of a skill set that is highly valuable to any employer