The Floor Check: does the truth survive your arrival?

01Your floor walk happens when there is time, not on a fixed rhythm.

Yes No

02Your dashboard is green while the people on the floor tell you it is not.

Yes No

03You usually know what the problem is before you get to the floor.

Yes No

04If your best hand were out tomorrow, the work would not come out the same.

Yes No

05You cannot stand at the work for ten minutes without asking a question or handing out an answer.

Yes No

06There is a pile between two machines that has been there so long nobody sees it anymore.

Yes No

07Something on your floor is done a certain way because of a rule nobody can explain anymore.

Yes No

08A standard you put in place has quietly died, and you are not sure when.

Yes No

09Problems get fixed because you personally step in and take the heat.

Yes No

10Your plan runs flat out, with no slack for the day something breaks.

Yes No

11The same kinds of problems keep showing up around you, no matter who is in the job.

Yes No

12If you walked out for a week, improvement on your floor would stop.

Yes No

Does the truth survive your arrival?