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!

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

Thanks,

Moriah

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Jst2saxy said:

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!

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

Thanks,

Moriah

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Moriah,

If you haven't already, why not check out the Post Attachments List (green bar at the top of this page) for some fun ideas? I'm sure there are some really neat exercisess there that would be applicable.

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This just hit me, so it may be a stupid idea, or not be applicable to your situation, but....

There are lists around that start with something like "if a quality level of one in a million is good enough, then..."

and there's a list of how many plane crashes would happen each day, how many new babies would be dropped, etc.

For the 31st (Holloween) why not encourage each employee to pick one of the bad occurrances and dress up as one of the victims? They could have a name tag that explains which mishap befell them, and you could even have prizes for the most creative.

I know, kinda dumb, but it might be fun, too.

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Craig H. said:

For the 31st (Holloween) why not encourage each employee to pick one of the bad occurrances and dress up as one of the victims? They could have a name tag that explains which mishap befell them, and you could even have prizes for the most creative.

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That's a great idea Craig, I hope you don't mind if steal that idea. The idea will be referenced and cited as yours of course.

Wayne

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wmarhel said:

That's a great idea Craig, I hope you don't mind if steal that idea. The idea will be referenced and cited as yours of course.

Wayne

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Steal away. I only ask for an account of how it goes. Pictures would be a hoot!

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Jst2saxy said:

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!

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

Thanks,

Moriah

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Designating one 7-day period as "quality week" means that there are 51 that aren't quality weeks.

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Jim Wynne said:

Designating one 7-day period as "quality week" means that there are 51 that aren't quality weeks.

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That's like saying that training for quality assurance for a week leaves 51 weeks where quality assurance is not important. IF the week is done correctly, that will simply not be the case. The one in a million idea should stick in folks minds for more than just a week, don't you think? Heck, its been a year or so since I last saw one of those lists, and I remembered it.

Its an opportunity to do an advertising blitz where the message is less likely to get lost in the noise. It is also an opportunity for Q Pros to be seen as something other than sticks-in-the-mud.

For some of us, anyway.

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Craig H. said:

That's like saying that training for quality assurance for a week leaves 51 weeks where quality assurance is not important. IF the week is done correctly, that will simply not be the case. The one in a million idea should stick in folks minds for more than just a week, don't you think? Heck, its been a year or so since I last saw one of those lists, and I remembered it.

Its an opportunity to do an advertising blitz where the message is less likely to get lost in the noise. It is also an opportunity for Q Pros to be seen as something other than sticks-in-the-mud.

For some of us, anyway.

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If you have to have a lot of hoopla, game playing and horn tooting in order to get people to think about quality, there's something fundamentally wrong that horn tooting won't help. I remember what Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas said in all of the commotion prior to the 1971 Super Bowl: "If this is the ultimate game, why is there another one next year?" When the idea of producing quality products is firmly embedded in the culture, there's no need to shoot off fireworks to get people to do the right things.

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Jim Wynne said:

If you have to have a lot of hoopla, game playing and horn tooting in order to get people to think about quality, there's something fundamentally wrong that horn tooting won't help. I remember what Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas said in all of the commotion prior to the 1971 Super Bowl: "If this is the ultimate game, why is there another one next year?" When the idea of producing quality products is firmly embedded in the culture, there's no need to shoot off fireworks to get people to do the right things.

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Jim, we are coming at this from 2 different directions. You are looking at the "fun and hoopla" aspect and I am looking at the "training retention" aspect. Do we absolutely need an event? Well, no.

If we do have such an event, and have upper management's participation, with them peppering their conversations with the quality successes and challenges, then as long as their interest in quality is consistent for the other 51 weeks the event will help to develop and/or reinforce a quality mindset.

Of course if their commitment is not there, this type of event can do more harm then good.

My opinion, of course.

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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 remember we went through some of the same negativism last year when I was casting about for help with the same type of information - "what if 99.9% were good enough?"

Sure, it can be hokey...But 'round these parts it is considered to be an honor to be a Hokey. Sure, it is only one week out of the year. But, the important part is to celebrate "quality" as something special for one week, or even for one day, or an hour, to the exclusion of all else. Show people that it is so special that everyone is willing to set aside a special time to mull over its place in the culture of your company. And, that is what it all comes down to. Culture. If your company operates with quality as part of its culture, having a quality week, day, or even 15 minutes, is a celebration of purpose, not just a nod to a flash and boom.

There is nothing wrong with setting off the occaisional fireworks display to celebrate something we believe in. A lot of us do it every year, either on Independence Day, or the New Year. It's a cultural thing, celebrate it, embrace it, wrap your arms around it and call it yours.