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The Fun Morning Huddle

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Elevate slide on the fun morning huddle with a sports team huddling together
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Do you want to start a lean culture? Consider starting with the morning huddle. Check out this agenda:

1. Begin the morning huddle timer with music

Morning Huddle slide with a 1:00 countdown timer over a sunlit field and tree

2. Open the meeting

Morning Huddle slide with a photo of a river winding through red rock canyons

3. Whoever volunteers to share their 3s gets to select tomorrow’s

Huddle slide announcing tomorrow's leader, with an Enter Name placeholder

4. Whoever volunteered to share their 3s, gets to Select tomorrows’

Huddle slide for tomorrow's 3S share, with an Enter Name placeholder

5. Get the energy high with a stretch

Stretching slide: stick-figure stretches with a countdown timer at 0:02, 13 of 180

6. Review the meeting rules

Meeting Rules slide: start and end on time, participate, no phones, no computers, use parking lot, throw E.L.M.O.

7. Start out in a positive way

Positive Shout-out slide: person giving two thumbs up above a sea of clouds
8. Consider doing the following:

..a quote for the day

Quote of the Day slide: Big results require big ambitions, Heraclitus, over a starry mountain sky
..a word of the day
Word of the Day slide defining passion as intense, driving or overmastering feeling or conviction

..a shout out for what we are grateful for

Gratefuls slide: note reading I am grateful for, next to a pencil on a blue background
 9. This is very important. Share a FastCap video to scale the kinds of ideas we are wanting
FastCap Video slide with Paul Akers' Lean Desk YouTube video

10. Teach about the 8 wastes

8 Deadly Sins slide: the 8 wastes shown fast food style, from over-production to wasted potential
11. Review any department lean improvements
Improvements slide: Lego figures too busy pushing a square-wheeled cart to take a round wheel
12. Review the secret sauce document for your company, department, or team
Secret Sauce slide, point 1: How will we succeed?
13. Remind everyone what our goal is
What's our goal? slide listing 7 huddle goals beside Paul Akers' book 2 Second Lean
 

And you can add any other tactical items that need to be covered daily. But why not start? You can adjust as you go along. The purpose is to great proximity and to develop a social group with a continuous improvement culture. Why not start tomorrow? Reach out if you need help!

Here is a template you can use and modify:

download the template

If you want to learn more we have:

-Takt Virtual Training: (Click here)
-Check out our Youtube channel for more info: (Click here) 
-Listen to the Elevate Construction podcast: (Click here) 
-Check out our training programs and certifications: (Click here)
–The Takt Book: (Click here)

Discover Jason’s Expertise:

Meet Jason Schroeder, the driving force behind Elevate Construction IST. As the company’s owner and principal consultant, he’s dedicated to taking construction to new heights. With a wealth of industry experience, he’s crafted the Field Engineer Boot Camp and Superintendent Boot Camp – intensive training programs engineered to cultivate top-tier leaders capable of steering their teams towards success. Jason’s vision? To expand his training initiatives across the nation, empowering construction firms to soar to unprecedented levels of excellence.

On we go!

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