ONE POINT LESSONS

One-point lessons are a simple yet powerful learning and operational tool. When applied systematically throughout the work site, one-point lessons provide many benefits. They can help deploy just-in-time knowledge and skills across an organization. They also positively affect employees' abilities to perform daily tasks as well as improve an organization's cost efficiency and product quality.

As an aid for spreading best practices company-wide, one-point lessons can support and enhance improvement efforts such as Lean Management, Just-In-Time (JIT) Production, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

One-Point Lessons

One-point lessons are short visual presentations on a single point. One-point lessons have three purposes:

• They sharpen job-related knowledge and skills by communicating information about specific problems and improvements.

• They easily share important information just-in-time.

• They improve the team's performance.

Characteristics of One-Point Lessons

One-point lessons are:

• Short visual presentations on a single point

• Detailed on one or two pages

• Supported by diagrams, photographs, or drawings

• Generated and used at the point of need

A one-point lesson is a learning tool for communicating standards, problems, and improvements about work processes and equipment. Workers and supervisors use one-point lessons to provide key information about everyday work and improvement opportunities. Thus, one- point lessons may contain information on a wide range of topics.