Regardless of business or industry, a revolution in global competition, technology, legal requirements, workforce demographics, worker rights and priorities continue to transform our workplaces, our employees and our business strategies. These changes challenge our organizations to also make changes.
 
MDW was designed to meet today’s challenges by creating a culture where employees are actively engaged in their work, have a voice in decision making and committed to the goals of the enterprise. Employee engagement is not a “program” but rather an organizational culture that values the intelligence, experience and advice provided by the people that do the work.
 
Research has verified that core business measures including: productivity, profitability, safety incidents, customer satisfaction, quality, employee retention and absenteeism are all positively impacted by higher levels of employee engagement. Engaged employees long for the opportunity to contribute, use their skills and develop new ones. MDW opens this door for your employees.

Just pick up any process improvement book and you will find scores of different programs and tools geared to generating improvements – and most of them can work! So how do you explain away the fact that 70% of process improvement efforts fail to deliver the expected results? One answer is poor implementation.
 
The reason our clients succeed is our proven approach to implementation. Through MDW, employees learn together proven ways of working more safely, eliminating waste and identifying and adopting best practices. This occurs over time and throughout the organization. This is not a once off –flavor of the week- the latest and the greatest new program. MDW takes proven world-class best practice to the frontline in logical, structured and simple steps.

Much “lip service” is given today to meeting and surpassing the needs of our valued customers. Converting “lip service” into meaningful and practical business practices is a feature of MDW.
 
Delivering value effectively to customers is the result of an organization’s ability to provide quality products and services, on time and cost-effectively. This can only be accomplished when each step in your company’s value stream is able to do the same.
 
Our process develops customer-supplier partnerships throughout your organization. These partnership agreements detail the requirements and expectations in each step in your value chain – from supplier to end customer.
The result: a competitive advantage – improved operational effectiveness – more value to your customers.

Today’s highly competitive business environment places new demands on its leadership team. Organizations often employ the same technology, process and people talent yet only some are winning the world-class competitive race – leadership makes all the difference!
 
World-class leadership creates an organization culture characterized by engagement, commitment and competence focused on achieving world-class results. This type of leadership differs from those of traditional managers and requires additional understanding and competence.
 
MDW equips your leadership team with the knowledge, skills, practices and feedback vital to developing the leaders today’s business demands. Focusing on individual leadership development, decision making, conflict management, empowerment of others, interaction and communication your leadership team will provide the competitive edge you need.

Reputable polling has uncovered that over 85% of employees don’t fully understand the strategies and goals of their organizations. Not surprising, these employees also didn’t understand their role in helping achieve those goals.
 
Converting your business strategies into meaningful goals and measures, that employees understand and can impact, is what MDW will do for your business. MDW aligns the organization throughout, around your goals and strategies. Each person on your team understands their role and their responsibilities in achieving them.
 
Daily, employees receive clear and timely feedback on these important measures and how they are doing in their pursuit of goal attainment. People want and need to know the score. The MDW structure guarantees that these vital aspects of your company strategy are paramount.

The 5 reasons why our clients, companies large and small,
chose Mission-directed Work Teams (MDW):

1. Results
2. Sustainability
3. Ease of Implementation
4. Low risk of failure
5. Cost

Mission-directed Work Teams (MDW) is a team-based, comprehensive, flexible work system. MDW combines world-class best practice with high employee involvement.
 
It is: Structured, Systematic and Simple.
 
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“Organizations cannot improve unless they consistently seek out and solve their problems. For most, that means undertaking a profound cultural change” Deloitte

In the “old days” employees brought problems to their leaders to solve – today, these problems are everyone’s concern. Leaders alone cannot be saddled with solving the heavy volume of everyday problems that are part of today’s working environment. Creating a workplace that enables employees to effectively tackle and solve their own problems requires a process – Mission-Directed Work Teams (MDW) is that process.
 
MDW provides the training, problem solving tools and framework necessary to build the confidence and competence to anchor problem solving as a way of life. Throughout your organization, employees learn when and how to zero in on root causes, identify solutions and then implement them. The ability and willingness to tackle and resolve problems is a vital building block of continuous improvement.

World-class companies, around the world, have identified and implemented 5 key strategies that enable them to improve and sustain optimum business performance.

These are:

1. Connect strategy, goals and purpose
2. Create a culture of continuous improvement focused on Quality, Speed and Cost-effectiveness
3. Deliver value effectively to customers
4. Continuously seek better ways of working safely, eliminating waste and adopting best practice
5. Develop and engage the talent within, enabling all members to contribute to their fullest potential

Mission-Directed Work Teams (MDW) provides your organization with a proven structure that focuses on and drives your key performance measures.
MDW is the only process that links the front-line employees with continuous improvement! (each day-every day)

Visit our “Results” page and read what our clients have to say, click here.

Well respected research firms like Blessing White, Deloitte, and Gallup conclude that most core business measures are all positively impacted by higher levels of employee engagement. The actual impact on these key measures is not marginal but huge!

The Mission-directed Work Teams (MDW) program introduces all the key elements necessary to create the high engagement organization, required today, to generate world-class performance.

Results you can expect:

• Engagement – Informed and empowered people on the front lines and throughout the organization
• Steady Improvements in Processes: Safety – Quality – Throughput- Cost-effectiveness
• Increased Competitiveness and Profit
• A Great Place to Work

Call Me. David McNeil.
1-707-672-6927