{"id":6027,"date":"2022-11-15T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:24:41","slug":"start-people-on-the-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/start-people-on-the-right-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Start People on the Right Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever noticed that if you start someone on one path, they tend to stay on it even if it was only a starter path? How do you get people started in quality improvement and SPC?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748841188?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Have you ever noticed that if you start somebody on one path they will stay on that path? If you start people on another path they&#8217;ll stay on that path, right? Because it cost them a certain amount of time and energy to learn how to be on that path.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you, but I see a lot of trainings out there; if you start people on the \u2018line chart path\u2019 they&#8217;re going to keep drawing line charts forever because they learned how to do it in Microsoft Excel, and geez that&#8217;s easy. Many trainers I see in their training they recommend using run charts because they&#8217;re pretending that you do not have enough data points to make a good control chart because &#8216;you&#8217;re starting from scratch with new measurements&#8230;&#8221; No, you&#8217;re not! Go start with real measurements that already exist, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But if you start them on the \u2018run chart path,\u2019 they&#8217;re going to keep doing run charts. A run chart is just a control chart without the limits, so why not just start them on control charts, right? Start drawing control charts from the get go, right? I don&#8217;t care how few data points you have, in not too long you&#8217;ll have 15 data points and you&#8217;ll need a control chart anyway, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Start using the tools of quality: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/\">control charts<\/a> to establish a baseline for what everything&#8217;s doing. In QI Macros you could fix the limits or you can actually then go in and start showing process changes when you make things happen. It&#8217;s very simple, and you can detect unstable conditions. There are a lot of things you can do with control charts that you simply cannot do well in a run chart.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Start people on the right path. Let&#8217;s go out and approve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever noticed that if you start someone on one path, they tend to stay on it even if it was only a starter path? 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