Consider that you/your group works for a large Oil & Gas company in the Houston metropolitan area and you have been tasked with increasing workplace productivity. In the Improve phase of your Lean Six Sigma project, you need to identify methods for motivating employees. So, you decide to creatively brainstorm ideas for motivating employees with the assistance of some of your co-workers (if not working in a group for this Workshop, be sure to collect some creative ideas from others). Then, you will use multi-voting or nominal group technique to determine the idea(s)/solution(s) you will implement in your organization to increase productivity through employee motivation.

Describe the brainstorming method/approach you used in this Workshop and identify those who participated in your brainstorming activities:

List your ideas/potential solutions to motivate employees based on your brainstorming activities, labeling each with a unique identifier:

Show the details of your work using multi-voting or nominal group technique to determine the idea(s)/solution(s) you will implement in your organization:

Describe which solution idea you will implement to increase productivity through employee motivation and why.