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GWELLAN CONSULTING
Founded in 2004
PERFORMANCE
Spreading the Lean Management culture and tools to progress and gain agility.
To create more value with fewer resources, and especially to find opportunities in the face of adversity, organizations must become agile. In Europe today, we have every reason to be inspired by the concept of Jugaad, which is a popular Hindi word that could be translated as "resourcefulness", that is to say the ability to improvise ingenious solutions in difficult conditions. This agile mindset develops best through the deployment of an authentic "Lean" culture, putting aside too many bad interpretations that have yielded unconsistent results.
We have to go back to the philosophy developed in Japan's frugal economy after the war, combine the spirit of collective intelligence and benevolence towards people, and emphasize the quality pillar of Jidoka.
We help you infuse the Lean philosophy into
your teams, create successful momentum and deploy
projects that boost performance and well-being
(those should always work well together)!
Our expertise covers all the steps of:
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Lean Manufacturing
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Lean Innovation,
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Six Sigma,
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Total Productive Management.
Our consultants are Black Belt Lean Six Sigma certified.
Improving processes, streamlining value streams and workflows (VSM).
The performance of a company can be defined as the product of the
skills that it integrates by the efficiency of its organization and by the
Commitment of all its actors and stakeholders.
To positively reinforce these 3 components we promote:
A strong Management that infuses energy into the teams,
gives the desire and allows to mobilize the skills.
A robust System that organizes how this energy irrigates
the organization, boosts its agility and measures its performance.
Reliable Processes that ensure alignment of contributions and
skills by organizing them to strive for excellence in operations.
By using a very interactive approach to lead Value Stream Mapping, we can provide you with the big picture of a process, help teams create a vision for improving it, including the flow of materials, people and information. As a result you will get an action plan that will help you minimize non-value-adding tasks and improve overall process efficiency We can also help in steering the action plan effective implementation.
MANAGEMENT
Developing Leadership to inspire, commit and motivate the teams.
The analysis of great successes and small victories highlights the importance of Leadership. At the level of the collective or individual performance, in companies, in sport or even at home, leadership makes the difference between success and failure. Leadership capabilities are based on the following six relational dimensions that, without denying the potential effects of chance and combinations of circumstances, give us the keys to inspire, motivate and lead.
The relationship, because human motivation is deeply
rooted in a fundamental need for recognition and self-esteem.
The expectation level, because the precise control and the
concentration in action both lead to success.
Trust, because to give our best and progress as individuals
we first need energy.
Consistency, because equity is an essential lever in the
team and requires both assertivity and authority.
Meaning because we commit ourselves in proportion to our
understanding of the project and its appealing nature.
Support, because we are only inspired by the leaders who
help us grow our potential
Nothing new, and so much the better, as todays new models of Leadership or management pile up and generate permanent zapping! Control of these mechanisms is not obvious. The development of behaviors that will allow us to excel in these 3 dimensions is our main challenge as leaders.
This frame of reference is reinforced by the neurosciences which give it a scientific legitimacy, unlike many other questionable models. It is deeply correlated to the action of 3 of the main neurotransmitters at work in our brains according to the "DNA of performance" recent findings!
By coaching, mentoring and training, we can help you develop the Leaders that will steer your operations and grow your business tomorrow. By focusing their influence on Transformational Leadership, instead of on the too classical Transactional Leadership, they will get more results!
Mentoring Managers and implementing best management practices.
For our Leadership to embody Warren Bennis's definition of the ability to translate a vision into reality, it must be associated with strong managerial skills. Only the manager who knows how to concentrate his teams on the fundamentals of their activity is able to compare his strategic objectives to reality, and manages to translate his intentions into results.
We provide your managers with very structured good practices in the form of guides covering all aspects of management. Of course, we provide training and after-sales services, and follow-up of individual development action plans.
These management standards include decision-making, interpersonal communication skills, error handling, targeted delegation, goal setting, influence strategies, project management, performance coaching, conflict resolution. handling mistakes, behaving as a change agent...
CHANGE & PROJECTS
Helping Organizations learn to change and guiding Change agents (five color method).
The philosopher Epictetus said that everything is change, not to be no more but to become what is not yet. This maxim guides us when we seek to lead others in the direction we believe to be the right one. To encourage the adhesion around our projects, while our collaborators have unfortunately often been confronted with a zapping that does not provide meaning to them, we must first reassure them by nurturing their current strengths. So, we can dream an attractive future and make sense of what is not yet. Secondly, it is our ability to explain the reasons for change, to make people want to mobilize their energy to a project and obtain first positive results that will overcome the natural resistance that emerges in the face of any transformation.
To drive the necessary changes at your side and
achieve your goals, or to support a large scale transformation
within your organization, we deal with the 5 meanings of change
called colors in an approach theorized by Leon de Caluwe
and Hans Vermaak.
It allows to cover all dimensions to be taken into account
by expanding our perspective, too often reduced to schedules
and deliverables. It is a very powerful approach that has
consistently delivered great results!
Managing projects, implementing commitment, decision and result steering reviews
The implementation of project modes punctuated by steering committees is an essential component for structuring transformations, driving coordinated activities to achieve specific objectives and thus carry out continuous improvement projects or innovation initiatives. It is the sequencing of action that allows precise steering, finds the necessary balance points, especially between maintaining the course and taking into account changes, and helps maintain a sustainable motivation.
We carry out assistance missions to project management or project management based on the PMBOK® standards of the Project Management Institute and CMMI® of the CMMI® Institute. We also conduct targeted risk analysis using What-if, Amdec / Fmea or Hazop methods on industrial activities or projects.
COACHING & TRAINING
Training teams to deploy impact across the organization.
Training is a useful improving component of teams and managers maturity development. It complements the acquisition of the knowledge that we spread during our missions. It is even more effective when it is delivered together with the deployment of methods in the field. Going back and forth between action and training punctuates and drastically improves the acquisition of knowledge.
We ensure the training of your teams on all the previously developed topics; development of managerial and leadership Capabilities, Lean Six Sigma Improvement and Project Management. We are an accredited training company.
Mixing practice and theory to put intelligence into action.
The theory and the practice do not oppose themselves but complement each other very effectively. In the real world, practice is the raison d'être and the culmination of the theory, while understanding the theory behind translates into good practices improvement. We use proven methods and pass on knowledge that has been very successfully confronted with reality. To achieve our goals, we definitely think our models must be useful and effective before they are true. But of course that's not a reason for not being smart!
We organize trainings linked with action implementation which make it possible to deploy methods of continuous improvement on pilot projects. You then get twice the benefit in terms of skill acquisition and performance improvement. This is a great way to build ownership within your organization.
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