Leading Organisational Excellence
Home > Leading Organisational Excellence
Leading Organisational Excellence
How leadership systems shape culture, execution and long-term performance
Event Overview
Many organisations invest heavily in improvement activity, transformation programmes and leadership development, yet still struggle to sustain performance over time.
​
The challenge is rarely a lack of effort.
​
More often, leadership teams become consumed by operational pressure while the organisational systems shaping performance remain unchanged. Priorities compete, standards vary across functions and sites, and strategy becomes diluted as it moves through the business.
​
This one-day executive workshop, led by George Donaldson, explores how leaders create organisations capable of sustaining excellence in increasingly demanding and complex environments. Drawing on more than four decades of leadership and transformation experience, George will examine the relationship between leadership behaviour, organisational systems and long-term business performance.
​
The workshop is informed by the principles of the Shingo Model and uses the Manufacturers Network 6P Model for Organisational Excellence as a practical framework for understanding how leadership influences organisational effectiveness.
​
Designed specifically for senior executives and operational leaders, the session combines strategic discussion, practical application and organisational reflection to help leaders evaluate whether the systems within their organisation are enabling performance or constraining it.
Why This Session Matters
Sustainable organisational excellence is not created through isolated improvement projects or short-term initiatives.
It is created when leadership, behaviours and organisational systems are aligned around a clear purpose and a consistent way of operating.
​
The strongest organisations understand that performance is shaped long before results appear on a dashboard. Leadership decisions influence accountability, culture, communication, capability development and the standards people experience every day.
​
These leadership insights sit at the core of the Shingo and Manufacturers Network 6P model: Principles inform or guide behaviours; Systems drive behaviours, how people work and act; And, ideal behaviours produce ideal or excellent and sustainable results. For senior leaders, this creates an important challenge.
If systems shape behaviour, leadership teams must take responsibility not only for results, but for the conditions creating those results.
​
This workshop examines that responsibility in practice.
Exploring the 6P Model for Organisational Excellence
​The workshop uses the Manufacturers Network 6P Model for Organisational Excellence as a practical framework for examining six interconnected organisational disciplines that shape long-term performance.
People
Understanding the role leadership plays in developing capability, strengthening engagement and creating environments where people can achieve their full potential and are empowered to solve problems and improve performance.
Partners
Exploring how collaborative relationships across suppliers, customers and stakeholders strengthen resilience and support long-term organisational performance.
Purpose
Exploring how organisations create clarity of direction, alignment and a meaningful “True North” capable of guiding decision-making across the business.
Plan
Examining how strategic priorities are translated into execution through approaches such as Hoshin Kanri and strategy deployment.
Process
​Focusing on leadership visibility, systems thinking and understanding how work is actually performed across the organisation.
Performance
Examining whether organisational measures, including both leading and lagging indicators, reinforce the behaviours and culture required to sustain excellence rather than simply tracking short-term outputs.
Practical Executive Application
Throughout the workshop, participants will apply the principles discussed directly to their own organisations.
This includes evaluating organisational alignment, leadership effectiveness and the maturity of the systems shaping organisational performance.
​
Participants will also complete a practical audit exercise using the Manufacturers Network Organisational Excellence Moel designed to benchmark elements of their organisation against recognised organisational excellence principles and identify opportunities for improvement.
The workshop concludes with a transformation planning session focused on identifying the leadership shifts and organisational priorities required to strengthen long-term performance.
Who Should Attend
This executive workshop is designed for senior leaders responsible for organisational performance, strategic delivery and transformation.
It is particularly relevant for:
-
Managing Directors
-
Site Directors
-
Operations Directors
-
Plant Directors
-
Transformation Leaders
-
Heads of Excellence and Improvement
-
Senior Functional Leaders
The session is designed for leaders seeking to strengthen organisational alignment, improve execution and create more sustainable performance across their business.
About George Donaldson
George Donaldson is Director of Strategy and Client Engagement at the Manufacturers Network and one of the UK’s most experienced organisational excellence practitioners.
​
He has more than 40 years’ experience leading operational excellence, reliability engineering, continuous improvement and large-scale organisational transformation across the manufacturing sector.
​
George led the Newsprinters team that achieved the first UK-awarded Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence, alongside the Global Operational Excellence Prize and the British Excellence Award for Lean Manufacturing.
​
Over the course of his career, he has worked with leadership teams across complex operational environments to strengthen organisational capability, improve execution and build cultures of sustainable improvement.
​
George also helped shape the Manufacturers Network 6P Model for Organisational Excellence, developed through years of practical leadership and transformation experience to help organisations assess and strengthen the systems influencing long-term performance.
