Ep.182 - Lean Facilitation - Lean, IPD Series

Do you need lean facilitation on your project? In this lean and IPD series episode, Jason unpacks why teams get stuck without facilitation and how to bring out the best in others. You'll learn the hard talk about superintendents who don't schedule (if they're not organized and don't know how to schedule, they're not superintendents yet, invite them to step up, train them, or let them go), the cancer center facilitation story where AGC taught last planner system and morning huddles, why 95% of detractors get bought in when facilitation is done right, and the pattern for facilitation: What's the goal? What's the problem? Get people together to solve it themselves instead of sending one savior to fix it and leave.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Hard talk for $100K-$3M projects: if superintendents don't schedule and aren't organized, they're not superintendents yet need training first

• Cancer center success: AGC facilitator taught the last planner, huddles, weekly work planning, then visited meetings and coached improvements

• Facilitation qualities from Transforming Design and Construction: strong communication, open-ended questions, encourage full participation, neutral on content

• "If a team can perform well together in meetings, they can do anything.", Meetings are the first step to everything

• The pattern: get teams to solve their own problems through facilitation instead of sending one person to play savior, fix it, and leave

Changing a tire while the vehicle is going 60 miles an hour, that's improving on a project site. Facilitators make it possible by bringing out the best in others.

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