When I start working with a new consulting client I'm often asked how to keep a team on track to deliver the results the business needs.
About the author:
Giles Johnston is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in helping businesses to grow and improve through better business processes and embracing Kaizen.
Giles is also the author of Effective Root Cause Analysis and 'What Does Good Look Like?'.
Without fail, my first response is
If you don't have one of these in your business, I'd consider implementing one.
What's a sunrise meeting?
In short, a sunrise meeting is a process driven meeting. You split up your business process into a series of checkpoints.
Each checkpoint has an owner.
Each checkpoint has a question that provides a yes/no answer.
The agenda is short and there isn't any AOB (Any Other Business).
Actions are agreed swiftly if the answer is the wrong one.
A quick note on questions
It makes like easier if you write the questions so that every question should end with a yes.
For example:
Did all of yesterday's material order arrive on time - yes!
Are there any outstanding material orders from yesterday - no...
When they are all set to 'yes', it is easier to carry out your roll call.
Benefits
Getting your team together for a sunrise meeting can help you to keep your business processes on track.
So what?
- Improved on time delivery
- Reduced re-work / lower costs
- Better decision making
- Happier customers (potential for additional business)
- Your team become more accountable
A good sunrise meeting can help your business to run like clockwork. It really is worth the small amount of time to plan and run these meetings.
A guide to help you
If you want to get some more information on pulling together a small team to really drive the performance of your processes, then check out my book Sunrise Meetings.
It gives you a step by step plan to plan and deploy a Sunrise Meeting and is available from Amazon, Apple Books and all major e-book platforms.
Enjoy watching your team's performance increase in front of your eyes!
Giles
About the author:
Giles Johnston is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in helping businesses to grow and improve through better business processes and embracing Kaizen.
Giles is also the author of Effective Root Cause Analysis and 'What Does Good Look Like?'.