Lean Transformation: Continuous Improvement Leader Boot Camp (VIRTUAL)

Are you a leader within your organization with a mission to drive continuous improvement initiatives to drive performance results? Are you seeking new tools, need a refresher on lean tools, or looking for new best practice insights to help you drive action and manage change in a quickly changing environment?

Lean Focus will teach you the most critical tools and skills you will need in order to be the change agent within your organization, from the planning and preparation of strategic priorities, identifying the right tool applications to make improvements, driving action, practicing skills necessary to facilitate kaizen events, and ensuring sustainment of actions and accountability across your organization.

What is a Kaizen Event? Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy meaning continuous improvement. It implies that everything can be improved upon with change for the better. When facing a business challenge, a focused "Kaizen Event" is a targeted event which hones in on the challenge, applies clear problem-solving techniques to identify wastes in the process, and seeks to remove those wastes with clear, identifiable actions and improvements. This course is intended to teach individuals how to manage these types of kaizen activities in a meaningful way to drive results within an organization using hands-on techniques and training.

This course is for senior leaders, managers, Continuous Improvement professionals, and individual contributors who want to further their skills, learn in a hands-on environment, gain insights to best practices, and make an impact within their organization.

You will learn unique and proven methodologies from continuous improvement professions who have held Senior Leadership positions and who have extensive experience applying these tools and driving performance improvements, from start-ups to Fortune 200 organizations.

During this hands-on workshop, you will be learning and applying the following concepts:

1. Managing the Strategic Priorities of your Organization (managing the funnel of activities)
   
2. Preparation for a Kaizen Event (Charter Development, Problem-Statement definition, identifying scope, and deliverables)
   
3. Lessons on identifying the right tools and applications for Kaizen Events
   
4. Preparation for an effective Kaizen Event
   
5. Facilitation skills for an effective Kaizen Event
   
6. Critical Concepts for Sustainment
   
7. Managing Post-Kaizen Event Activities (reporting, auditing, recognition, rewards)
   
8. Applied learning during a simulated kaizen event using Value Stream Mapping with a case study
   
9. Change Management and Culture Sustainment Techniques
   

Pre-reading is required for this course, with instructions to be provided upon event registration. Check out www.leanfocus.com for details about this course and others!

Pre-work Requirement:

Please give yourself at least 1-2 hours to prepare for the course. Pre-work reading assignments and pre-worksheets will be sent to you with your registration confirmation along with information regarding event logistics and travel recommendations (if applicable). You will also want to bring examples of problems you seek to improve within your organization (and related report tracking) for in-class exercises. During the week of the course, you will be assigned homework in the evenings with teach back sessions the following day, so please plan your schedule accordingly.

Deliverables:

• Hands-on Training applications of critical skills for driving, maintaining, and sustaining Continuous Improvement activities.
  
• Completion of an in-class case study using Value Stream Mapping and teach back sessions to demonstrate comprehension of methodology.
  
• Understanding of how to select appropriate lean tools towards real initiatives and examples brought to class.
  
• Lean Focus C.I. Leader Boot Camp Training Manual
  
• Lean Focus Kaizen Event Basics Presentation (Powerpoint)
  
• Lean Focus Kaizen Event Charter Template (electronic)
  
• Lean Focus Kaizen Event Report Out Template (electronic)
  
• Lean Focus Kaizen Event Results Template (electronic)
  
• Lean Focus Action Plan Template (electronic)
  
• Lean Focus Bowler Report Template (electronic)
  
• Generic Kaizen Event Certificate Template (electronic)
  
• Certificate of Course Completion
  

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

VIRTUAL EVENT - Log-in Details to be provided after registration, 821 E. Washington Avenue, 4th Floor, Suite 402, Madison, United States

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