01Feb 2023 by Jennifer Ayers
Executive Leadership Tour: Developing a People-First Organization – March 8th (FULL)

Executive Leadership Tour: Developing a People-First Organization – March 8th (FULL)

Learning Tours
Business leaders are responsible for achieving positive results while building an environment where their people are challenged, respected, and valued. Scott Simmons, CEO of Skutt Ceramics, is opening their doors to NWHPEC members to share his philosophy and practices for creating a thriving workplace and positive company culture. Specific steps Skutt has taken to help team members achieve their potential and professional growth in a respectful environment will be shared and discussed.  You'll have the opportunity to attend their leadership daily management huddle. Additionally, a shop tour to highlight steps taken to achieve his goals will demonstrate specifics to aid other executives pursuing similar results. "Our premise, when Team Members are valued through specific challenges, they achieve things they never thought possible. We intentionally develop opportunities for their input and…
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01Jan 2023 by Jennifer Ayers
Benchmark Tour @Portland Bottling Company – Sept 27th (Tour is FULL)

Benchmark Tour @Portland Bottling Company – Sept 27th (Tour is FULL)

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As the Pacific Northwest’s leading packer and co-packer for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company delivers end-to-end services, from filling, packing and cartoning to multi-packing and repacking to 3PL and on/off-site warehousing. Portland Bottling Company is the most trusted, safest, and highest quality ready-to-drink beverages in the industry. On this benchmarking tour, you’ll have the opportunity to see their fully automated bottling lines and get a glimpse of the systems they have in place to create a high performing team environment.  We’ll start with an overview of the company, their lean journey, and their focus on safety and good manufacturing practices.  Then we’ll head out to the floor to see: Their DMS system which includes Gemba walks, communication boards, and management boards Onboarding program and training matrix How Leader Standard…
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20Jan 2022 by Jennifer Ayers
Virtual Tour: Coherent – Feb 10th @9am

Virtual Tour: Coherent – Feb 10th @9am

Learning Tours
Using Kaizen Short Stories to Foster Improvements The Coherent team will showcase how they are working within Covid social distancing requirements and still accomplishing day-to-day Lean improvements. Coherent members will show how they are using the Kaizen Short Stories to communicate their successes and to foster more improvement ideas. On this virtual tour, you will: Learn how the Coherent team shares their lean successes globallyHear about their Lean journeyVenture inside their operations as they showcase some of the Lean tools they’ve implementedDiscover how Kaizen Short Stories helped them continue to make improvements while maintaining social distancing (and remote work)See examples of Kaizen Short Stories and learn about the impact they are having on engagement The Coherent LMS Business Unit is located in Wilsonville and is part of a global leader…
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04Jan 2022 by Jennifer Ayers
Virtual Tour: Smith Gardens – Jan 19th @9am

Virtual Tour: Smith Gardens – Jan 19th @9am

Learning Tours
Topic: Intentional Leadership through Leader Standard Work Join us as we venture inside Smith Gardens to learn more about how they cascade goals throughout their organization and use a pattern for daily improvement (which includes daily coaching cycles and PDCA) to make progress toward their goals. Their current focus area is Leader Standard Work (LSW). On this virtual tour, you will see: How team members are using a Pattern for Daily Improvement (PDI) to achieve their LSW initiativeRelationship building through daily coaching cyclesThe development of problem solvers throughout the organization by empowering employees to take small steps and learn from their failuresThe power of creating an iterative process so LSW can adapt to work level/cycles throughout the yearHow LSW has helped Smith Gardens overcome an obstacle of sustaining their CI…
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