Finbarr Sheehy - Your Improvement is our Business

Every business success is based on a set of key principles, irrespective of size, sector or industry. We can help you to understand and implement these principles.

1. Have a Vision for your Organisation - Know where you want to be in 5 years time. Understand what that means to your products, customers, processes, people, competencies and culture.

2. Make sure your Goals & Objectives are aligned behind your Strategy. All capital projects must also align. Develop a site master plan for your organisation. Identify your unique selling point for the business.

3. Map your key processes. Process mapping is the simplest and best process improvement technique. Use this to drive improvements and eliminate waste. Use it to define you Customer Expectations.

4. Measure what’s important to your business. Develop a simple scorecard that drives collaborative performance and improvement. Communicate the performance. Drive a culture of understanding ‘Root Cause’.

5. Identify & develop the competencies for the future. Identify the critical roles. Define and communicate Roles and Responsibilities. Use information systems to capture knowledge. Assess competency on the job.

6. Focus on Leadership not ‘The Leadership’. Develop Role Models in the organisation at all levels to promote the right behaviours, attitudes and values. Expect Leadership from ‘The Leadership’; promote ‘Leadership’ from everywhere else.

7. Create the environment to Learn and be Creative. Learn from what has happened in the past. Promote the generation of ‘Good Ideas’. Encourage Success. Recognise Achievement.

Finbarr Sheehy has over 20 years experience at senior level with some of the best US multinational organisations based in Ireland.

He has held the following position,
- Director of Continuous Improvement & Training, Continuous Improvement Manager - Wyeth Medica Ireland, Newbridge, Kildare
- Skills Training Manager, Process Improvement Engineer - Intel Ireland, Kildare
- Test Development Engineer - Analog Devices Incorporated, Limerick

His expertise is in the following areas,

Strategy, Manufacturing, Engineering, Training, Process Improvement and Change Management.
Finbarr is also a qualified Business & Life Coach, certified by the Irish Institute of Neuro Linguistic Programming.