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Flying Starship Enterprises formerly Block Petrella Weisbord Publishing provides The Flying Starship® an exercise created by William O. Lytle to demonstrate the
value of applying sociotechnical principles to develop high-performance organizations. The Flying Starship incorporates major insights from Marvin
Weisbord's book, Productive Workplaces: Organizing and managing for Dignity, Meaning, and Community (Jossey-Bass, 1987).
Get employees "on board" with change efforts
The pace of change today is unrelenting. "Continuous improvement" has become the norm for most companies. The push for improved financial results, higher productivity, more sales, improved service and lower cost reflects the competitive nature of the global economy. The problem is the disconcerting effect change has on employees-new demands are placed on them, while the outcomes are uncertain.
A proven solution - The Flying Starship
The Flying Starship is an experiential simulation aimed at helping organizations deal with changes that affect employees. It allows participants at all levels to discover "participative change" first hand, without risk, prior to application in a real work setting. "Participative change" or "employee involvement" is critical to successful change efforts.
How does The Flying Starship work?
The object of The Flying Starship learning tool is for participants to manufacture paper Starships in a traditional, closely supervised work system. Quality is monitored and the finished product is delivered to a discriminating customer.
Bringing along experiences from this "Production Run," the participants then divide into Design Teams. During that phase they create innovative "high-performance" systems that are put to the test in a "Second Production Run." The teams are lead through an analysis of their breakthroughs and how they relate to their own actual workplaces.
Participants benefit by exploring the implications that are so necessary to understand how these improvements affect their own working conditions: changes in productivity, quality, worker involvement, and customer satisfaction. This is the "ah-ha"-a clear vision of their own stake in their organization and how to make these changes occur.
Common applications for The Flying Starship:
| • | Restructuring |
| • | Culture Change/Merger |
| • | Process Improvement |
| • | Quality |
| • | Teambuilding |
With The Flying Starship participants learn:
| • | How structure, information flow, and reward systems impact output, quality and job satisfaction. |
| • | How to use teamwork to align work processes to dramatically improve results. |
| • | How employee knowledge of all elements of business-economic, technical, social-is the basis for continuous improvement. |
| • | How there many "right" ways to design work to improve results and not one set way. However, all effective methods have employee involvement in common. |
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Accelerated Learning Systems, Inc. is a value-added reseller of Business Methodologies International Ltd., Celemi, Eagle's Flight, Flying Starship Enterprises (Formerly Block Petrella Weisbord), and 3D Learning, Ten Thousand Feet LLC and TRACOM.
Apples & Oranges, Tango, Decision Base, Livon, Livon Lite and Mando are trademarks of Celemiab International AB in Malmö, Sweden.
Manufacturing Reality and Manufacturing Reality Cash Flow are trademarks for Business Methodologies International, Ltd., Warrenville, IL.
Gold of the Desert Kings, Promises Promises, Excelleron, Code Name Enigma, The Seven CORNERSTONES of Teamwork, Lord Devon's Demise, Effective Presentations, Rattlesnake Canyon and Living Leadership are trademarks of Eagle's Flight Creative Training Excellence, Inc. Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
The Flying Starship Factory is a trademark of Flying Starship Enterprises formerly (Block Petrella Weisbord), Clark, NJ.
The Vortex Simulation is a trademark of 3D Learning.
Interplay is a trademark of Ten Thousand Feet, LLC in Syracuse, NY
The Social Style Model is a trademark of TRACOM Group in Highlands Ranch, CO
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