Take Every Opportunity to Improve Productivity While Growing Team Member Capabilities

This group is designed to serve managers of all departments. The group is open to all member companies regardless of location or market niche. You will be part of a group marked by mutual trust, sharing of best practices and respectful disagreement, for the advancement of each member company’s success, productivity and for group members’ career development.

Managers in every department can slip into the trap of becoming the “Compliance Sheriff” losing effectiveness and joy in the role. Regardless of the department in which we serve, we all want to improve personal and team results.

This Group is Intended:

To equip problem solvers to become problem preventers.
To provide methods for growing problem solving, planning and project management skills.
To foster those same skills in your team.
To share best practices for continuous improvement.
To receive coaching, collaboration, and better follow through on proactiveness.
To help you build a culture of continuous improvement.

Who Should Join?

Process Improvement Managers
Quality Managers
HR Managers
Administration Managers

Rules of Engagement:

The group will adopt its own specific rules of engagement beyond these non-negotiables;

It will operate in compliance with Antitrust Guidelines.
All discussions and meeting content is confidential.
Participant's company’s senior manager will be informed of the participating companies. If they object, they will have the right to withdraw before the first meeting with a full refund.

Schedule Includes:

Nine (9) online meetings will be held during the year and will include leadership and process improvement topics of interest, member reports on progress toward goals, and sharing of best practices.
One destination meeting will be scheduled to visit an exemplary manufacturing facility and may include presentations by topical experts. This will be 1 1/2 to 2 days in length.
Facilitator coaching will be available throughout the year.

Facilitator:

Scott Ellis, Ed.D, Principal, WorkingWell, LLC

Scott has served as a resource for the development of individuals, teams, and organizations as a

consultant, teacher, psychotherapist, coach, and general manager. His pragmatic approach and demeanor are shaped as much by his years laboring in lumber mills and construction as they have been in the boardroom and the university. Scott’s manufacturing experience in recent decades has primarily focused on the packaging industry.

How Do I Join?

There is no cost to apply. If accepted into a group, a fee of $1,800 is paid annually. The fee covers all facilitator costs and nine online meetings annually. (Hotel and travel expenses are always the responsibility of each attendee).
We take confidentiality seriously. Each member must sign an agreement before joining to keep all shared information confidential.
Your company must be an AICC member in good standing, with all membership dues current.
Download and return the application to Rebecca Rendon at rrendon@aiccbox.org.

Questions?

Questions about the Continuous Improvement Group and the value a well-trained workforce brings to a company can be directed to Taryn Pyle at tpyle@aiccbox.org or Rebecca Rendon at rrendon@aiccbox.org.