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Leading in a Continuous Improvement Culture: Engaging and Coaching Problem Solving Thinkers (1 Day Class)

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Description

This one-day workshop is for lean managers or those responsible for supporting or developing lean managers. This workshop addresses the challenges leaders face in making the transition from a culture in which problem solving is the job of a few to one that fosters and enables continuous problem solving and improvement efforts at all levels.

Workshop Outline:

This workshop explores topics relative to leadership practices, values, assumptions and behaviors:

  • The link between problem solving and continuous improvement
  • The importance of engaging employees in meaningful responsibilities and the meaning of 'respect for employees' in a lean environment
  • The nature of a true problem solving culture
  • A comparison of the lean culture of continuous improvement and North American efforts to create one
  • Completion and discussion of an assessment of company problem solving culture
  • An exercise to examine our problem solving habits and ways leaders can model and enhance them
  • A review of the kind of problem solving required to build the culture of continuous improvement
  • Leader role and skills for engaging and developing employees as problem solvers
  • Ways to be helpful as a lean leader without being the expert
  • Questioning techniques that prompt a thorough grasp of a problem situation and force reflection on causes
  • Techniques for responding to requests for help from employees that develop problem solving thinking without taking away responsibility
  • Ways to leads discussions of problem situations and assignments with employees that promote development of job-handling capability
  • Techniques to help others sort through the "noise" in a problem situation and focus on the real problem they want or need to address

Workshop activities will include:

  • Short presentations
  • Small and full group discussions
  • Short readings
  • Group and individual exercises
  • Case situations
  • Skill practices with feedback

Expected Outcomes:

Participants should expect to grasp perspectives, concepts, and values that will help them define the purpose, practices and requirements of a problem solving culture.

They will learn how to support the role recognition by employees at any level.

They will also gain skills and techniques that can be used on a daily basis to help them develop problem solving thinking of their employees.

 

Instructor:
David Verble

David applied his organizational skills at Toyota's Georgetown, KY, plant where he worked in management and organizational development during the facility’s startup phase and beyond. During his 10 years at Toyota, David became the manager of Human Resource Development at Georgetown and then manager of Human Resource Development for North American Manufacturing at Toyota's manufacturing headquarters in Erlanger, KY. Before his tenure at Toyota, David was responsible for organizational development as assistant to the Dean of the College of Education, University of Kentucky. He currently aids companies implementing lean through Lean Transformations Group.

 

 

Workshop Suggestions:
To maximize your learning experience we recommend that prior to attending this program you take following workshops or have a good understanding of the concepts presented within them.
Suggested Reading for this Workshop:
Price: $800.00 ($700.00 if the participant is taking 2 or more workshops at one location)
Price includes all participant materials, breakfast, lunch and snacks each day
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