Fun Ideas for Quality Week

Jim Wynne

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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

Jim, I respect your knowledge and all the help that you have given us for a long time, but in this case I feel that your pessimistic side has taken over and overshadowed your ability to see a positive view. information - "what if 99.9% were good enough?"
I'm not a pessimist, I'm a cynic. There's a difference. :D

Sure, it can be hokey...But 'round these parts it is considered to be an honor to be a Hokey.
What??? A Tarheel maybe, but never a a Hokie! (I was born in NC.)
 

SteelMaiden

Super Moderator
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

I'm not a pessimist, I'm a cynic. There's a difference. :D

What??? A Tarheel maybe, but never a a Hokie! (I was born in NC.)

Ah, but were you born on the border? Lots of Hokies in my neighborhood.

:lmao:

As for the cynic vs. pessimist, hmmmm, looks like hair splitting in this case.;) Either way, as you would say, I am ever the rose colored glasses wearing, optimistic cheerleader.:cool:
 

Jen Kirley

Quality and Auditing Expert
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

Jim, I respect your knowledge and all the help that you have given us for a long time, but in this case I feel that your pessimistic side has taken over and overshadowed your ability to see a positive view.
I resemble that remark. :rolleyes:

Here's the thing. Employees can't do well until the company does well first.

There. Now that I've stated the obvious, how about if we make it obvious?

1. Find some posititve quality happening for each of the past 52 weeks.
2. Find who was involved and make a slide for each one.
3. Print out the slides.
4. Have top management throw the people a lunch party and review those 52 slides; they would describe how the 52 happenings helped the company, and don't forget how they improved people's workplace lives.
5. Do it again, preferrably not waiting a year.

Facts are, good things should be rewarded. While we like tangible rewards (people often do like a spot bonus, and the more so if they have low wages) there should be a direct link between the award and its source. Management should become directly, personally involved in the praise and recognition of things going well. That takes effort. Years can go by without noticing that we have missed a thosand chances to promote good work, and each of those thousand misses chances can take a little chip out of morale.

And so I suggest the party get started--but make it have a solid point, and management should make that point so a sense of "We're in this together" might thrive.

There's my :2cents:
 
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Craig H.

Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

... I was casting about for help with the same type of information - "what if 99.9% were good enough?"


:topic:


So it wasn't one in a million? sheesh

What if my memory was good enough?
 
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Jst2saxy

Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

Thank you for some great ideas! I see what we can work in. :thanx:

Now to address the off topic discussion:

I work in food manufacturing...Quality is required every day! I also have the added benefit of the majority of the employees care about the quality of their work everyday. That wasn't so at the last job. So having a quality week is more of a way to address the required annual training for all employees and to have a little fun and games to make awareness a little more enjoyable.

This year, quality week is falling right before our annual corporate audit so we are raising awareness there as well. Instead of sounding preach-y I was hoping this vast community would have experience in ways to help QA not seem so uptight.

So again, thanks for the wonderful ideas so far and if you have more, I'd love to see them!!

BTW...I'm originally from Florida, so Go Gators! It's been fun living on the NC/VA border. :lol:
 

BradM

Leader
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

I sensed two different viewpoints on this topic, and personally I feel that both of them are valid. Below are my opinions:

1. Do consider doing things to break the monotony. I do believe there is enough evidence that a fresh approach to something can elicit some novel attention. That may be enough to increase awareness and interest in a few people. Like Jim suggests, you have a whole rest of the year past that week. How much steam will you gain?

2. Do consider the audience and put in the plan-time. There's nothing that turns me off more than when someone insults my intelligence or rolls out an ill-planned/ ill-conceived/ woefully underfunded initiative. Whatever you do, make sure it's appropriate and professional.

Also my opinion-What kind of budget do you have? You could have some contests. One for people to bring you the best example of a successful quality plan. Maybe a contest for the best quality improvement at your organization.

I think it's OK to perform initiatives for different activities. However, I think it does more harm than good if it's not well thought out and organized.
 

Stijloor

Leader
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

My company will be holding a quality week next month and I was trying to generate some fun ideas to help get the quality message out to the production floor. Anyone have anything fun? We have a jeopardy game that we will be playing, but other than that, I'm drawing a blank!:confused:

Any ideas or things anyone may have done in the past would be a great help!

Thanks,

Moriah

Hello moriah,

In the past, I have used books such as "Games Trainers Play" to help me generate ideas for quality awareness activities. Look here for locations to acquire these books if you wish: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=games+trainers+play&btnG=Google+Search Nothing wrong to have some fun, celebrate, and learn at the same time. For example, sports teams do this all the time.

Stijloor.
 

Steve Prevette

Deming Disciple
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

I'm not a pessimist, I'm a cynic. There's a difference. :D

What??? A Tarheel maybe, but never a a Hokie! (I was born in NC.)

Hokie Hokie Hokie High
Tech, Tech VPI
Solarex, Solarah
Polytech Virginia
Ray, rah team!

On a more serious note - I am a strong believer in Dr. Deming's Red Bead Experiment for these events. Just did the experiment this week in Seattle for an ergonomics conference. I have now put over 2,500 people through the Red Beads.

- Virginia Tech - Civil Engineering 1981
Highty Tighties, Corps of Cadets.
 

Jim Wynne

Leader
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Re: Seeking fun ideas for Quality Week

Ah, but were you born on the border? Lots of Hokies in my neighborhood.

:lmao:

As for the cynic vs. pessimist, hmmmm, looks like hair splitting in this case.;) Either way, as you would say, I am ever the rose colored glasses wearing, optimistic cheerleader.:cool:

I should point out that I'm all in favor of management taking time out to show workers that they're appreciated, and have nothing whatsoever against occasionally stopping the show for it. There are all kinds of morale-building (and reinforcing) things that can be done. I used to work for a privately-owned company of around 200 people where the owner would regularly be seen on the production floor, not only chit-chatting but actually pitching in and helping out when extra hands were needed. He would also randomly show up in the middle of the plant in the middle of the day with lots of food and drink (even a keg of beer on occasion:mg:), stop production and just let people enjoy themselves for a while. He created an atmosphere where people wanted to do a good job, and made sure he missed no opportunity to sincerely thank them for it.

It's that sort of thing that helps people to do a better job--making sure that they know what's expected of them, and actually helping them to accomplish it. Simply stringing up banners, creating inane games and shouting QUALITY all over the place once a year is not a substitute for building a real quality system. If it's not an integral part of the business, exhortations and drum-beating aren't going to help. In fact, those types of things often have the opposite effect, because people see through them and wind up feeling like they're being gamed.
 
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