A company stops its production line every Tuesday for an hour so employees can review the previous week's data together, spot problems, and brainstorm fixes. The routine builds critical thinking and problem-solving skills while actually improving how the line runs.
And so, for instance, I worked with a company that every Tuesday they would shut the line down for at least an hour and work with the employees on, you know, one line at a time to look at the data that had come from the previous week and work with them to understand what that data was telling them and then brainstorm different ideas on how to improve the process. And that wasn't formal training, but by involving the people in that process and by actually having them participate in those improvement efforts, that was providing them that ongoing training, that ongoing upskilling over time in the process of also improving the process itself. And so I think there are ways that when we're talking about the critical thinking skills, problem solving, root cause analysis, and so forth, that you can do that and still add value to the process at the same time.
