Examples of Tier Boards, Huddleboards, Team Boards
A Visual Management system can be a powerful tool to help improve your team communication and performance. We refer to these as Huddleboards, but you may have seen them referred to as Tier Boards, Dashboards, or Whiteboards. Following, are some huddleboard examples.
What should a Huddleboard look like?
What is a Huddleboard?
- A place (physical or virtual) where a team can meet and review priorities and make plans
- A visual representation of the work a team is doing
(see this post titled: What is a Huddleboard )
What are the benefits?
- Display and remind team members of priorities and important goals.
- Hold teams accountable for committed work
- Capture issues, and ideas for improvement
- A place to recognize & celebrate successes
Examples:
Example A) Tier 3: Monthly Huddleboard
This is an example of a Tier 3+ board that could be used as part of a Monthly Business Review.
- Frequency: Monthly
- Who would use it: Members of the senior leadership team
- Metrics: Business Outcome Metrics
What is a Tier Board?
The word Tier is used to refer to the level inside of an organization where the work is being done. Large organizations may have many more “Tiers”, but for this example, we will stick with 3 Tiers.
Example B) Tier 2: Weekly Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Weekly
- Who would use it: Members of a Team supporting a Net Promoter Score initiative
- Metrics: Department/Function or Team Metrics, or temporary metrics related to a specific improvement initiative.
Example C) Tier 3: Monthly Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Monthly
- Who would use it: Members of the senior leadership team
- Metrics: Business Outcome Metrics
Example D) Tier 2: Weekly Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Weekly
- Who would use it: Continuous Improvement team managing a 5S effort
- Metrics: 5S Audit metrics
Example E) Tier 1: Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Monthly
- Who would use it: Members of the operating team responsible for production
- Metrics: Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Costs
Example F) Tier 2: Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Weekly
- Who would use it: Members of the Team Working on a Project
- Metrics: Specific to this project.
Example G) Tier 2: Huddleboard Example
- Frequency: Weekly
- Who would use it: Members of the Team Working on a Project
- Metrics: Specific to this project.
Example H) Tier 2: HuddleBoard Example
- Frequency: Weekly
- Who would use it: Members of the Team Working on a Project
- Metrics: Specific to this project.
