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Deming on When Training Will Help and When It Won’t

Deming described the conditions where a worker can benefit from training and when not. It has to do with the stability of their performance. I recently did a blog about his approach to using control charts to determine stability of worker performance.



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“Again, I was re-reading Deming’s “Out Of The Crisis” and he made a very interesting statement in here about personal performance. He actually used an example of amateur golfers versus pro golfers.

“He said if your performance is out of control like an amateur golfer, training will help.

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.