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Real Applications, Not Just Concepts

We design our workshops to answer the question many of you have about Lean concepts, "What concrete steps do I take on Monday morning to begin implementing?"

So we teach you actual applications, not just concepts, in plain language with the case studies, worksheets, formulas, and methodologies you need. You learn step-by-step methodologies for implementing and making the critical leap from the conventional business focus on optimizing individual processes to the value-stream focus of optimizing the flow of value. No wonder our workshops have a reputation for practical and comprehensive content.

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5S - Visual Workplace
5S methodology helps organizations achieve more consistent operational results through maintaining an orderly workplace. This workshop will introduce you to the 5S methodology and help you learn basic implementation steps including evaluation and audit.
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Creating Continuous Flow Create continuous flow — not fake flow — at the pacemaker process and in other production cells by focusing on the human factors of the operation and how to balance the work to takt time. Read more >
Creating Level Pull This introduction to the basics of leveling and pull gives you the essential information you need to design and implement a basic end-to-end pull system with kanban and a leveled schedule at the pacemaker process. Read more >
Fundamentals of Lean Production - Creating Stability in the 4Ms Understand how to identify and eliminate the root causes of equipment and process instability problems in such areas as availability, speed, flexibility, and quality so you can sustain critical lean objectives such as flow, leveling, and pull. Read more >
Kaizen: The Culture of Continuous Improvement The Kaizen Teian or Kaizen methodology promotes the sustainable continuous improvement as a way of life for every member within the organization. It supports the flow, implementation and recognition of improvement proposals made by all collaborators. It provides a structure to channel the opportunities for improvement detected by employees and convert them into realized gains, making a positive impact on the way people perform and perceive their work. Read more >
Key Concepts of Lean - Understanding the Toyota Production System Designed for individuals and teams that want to gain a better understanding of the components and underlying philosophy of lean, based on the Toyota Production System (TPS), and how the elements and philosophy work together to create a Lean Enterprise. Read more >
Lean Problem Solving Harness the DNA of successful, sustainable lean implementations. You'll learn and practice the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) problem-solving method in this interactive workshop. Read more >
Making Materials Flow How to implement, sustain, and improve a dependable material-handling ;system for purchased parts using pull, timed delivery routes, a central supermarket, and a Plan for Every Part (PFEP). Read more >
Optimizing Flow in Office and Service Processes This workshop will demonstrate the application of the key Lean concepts of standard work, visual management, flow, and pull to information-intensive processes most often found in service and administrative environments. A simulationwill provide first-hand experience in an office kaizen event - participants will identify changes, implement them, and measure the impact of their efforts. Read more >
Standardized Work: The Foundation for Kaizen Standardized work is one of the most powerful but least used lean tool. Learn how documenting the current best practice (standardized work) forms the baseline for kaizen or continuous improvement. Read more >
Value-Stream Mapping for Manufacturing Learn how to use this fundamental initial step in a lean transformation to create the "blueprints" for applying other tools and targeting kaizen events most effectively. Read more >
Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service Understand how to adapt the value-stream mapping tool to administrative, professional, and transactional activities. Read more >

5S - Visual Workplace
5S methodology helps organizations achieve more consistent operational results through maintaining an orderly workplace. This workshop will introduce you to the 5S methodology and help you learn basic implementation steps including evaluation and audit.
Read more >
Building the Lean Fulfillment Stream: Supply Chain and Logistics Management This one-day workshop highlights the critical elements and “must know” concepts of Lean as they apply to the supply chain and logistics. It demonstrates how to map your value stream for the extended enterprise, isolate areas of waste and uncover opportunities for cost reduction through the use of lean principles. Read more >
Change Agent Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders Learn how to lead others to and through implementation of lean change activities by persuasion, influence, demonstration, negotiation, and teaching. Read more >
Coaching Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders Leaders and change agents will discover how to apply the "sensei approach" in leading a lean implementation project by using preparation, practice, adjustment and review to give responsibility for thinking and making changes to the people who have to implement and maintain the improvements. Read more >
Creating Continuous Flow Create continuous flow — not fake flow — at the pacemaker process and in other production cells by focusing on the human factors of the operation and how to balance the work to takt time. Read more >
Creating Level Pull This introduction to the basics of leveling and pull gives you the essential information you need to design and implement a basic end-to-end pull system with kanban and a leveled schedule at the pacemaker process. Read more >
Developing People with Capability for Lean Learn about a supportive management environment for lean performance. Explore the manger’s role in people development and responsibilities in creating a learning environment. Identify the perspectives, capabilities and behaviors required by the role and examine organizational systems and practices that support managers in carrying out their role to develop and sustain capability for performance in a lean operation. Read more >
Fundamentals of Lean Production - Creating Stability in the 4Ms Understand how to identify and eliminate the root causes of equipment and process instability problems in such areas as availability, speed, flexibility, and quality so you can sustain critical lean objectives such as flow, leveling, and pull. Read more >
Getting the Right Things Done A major problem in a lean transformation is taking on too many initiatives at once. Policy Deployment guides you in "de-selecting" initiatives down to the ones the organization can really achieve while aligning them with company strategic objectives. Read more >
New!Improving Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety through Lean Methods This Mistake-Proofing (a.k.a. "Poka Yoke") workshop is designed around healthcare examples and scenarios. Mistake-proofing is born of common sense, simplicity and detailed process knowledge, but combines nicely with the findings of cognitive psychology and human factors engineering. Read more >
Integrating Visual Management Tools and Leader Standard Work This course deals with designing and executing an implementation plan to migrate your company from one of “gather data, synthesize, meet, and react” to one of “see waste, manage exceptions, and improve processes”. It will show you how to tie together the tools of Policy Deployment, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, and Management Standard Work. The emphasis of the course is on the development of visual management tools and incorporating them into management standard work. Read more >
Kaizen: The Culture of Continuous Improvement The Kaizen Teian or Kaizen methodology promotes the sustainable continuous improvement as a way of life for every member within the organization. It supports the flow, implementation and recognition of improvement proposals made by all collaborators. It provides a structure to channel the opportunities for improvement detected by employees and convert them into realized gains, making a positive impact on the way people perform and perceive their work. Read more >
Key Concepts of Lean - Understanding the Toyota Production System Designed for individuals and teams that want to gain a better understanding of the components and underlying philosophy of lean, based on the Toyota Production System (TPS), and how the elements and philosophy work together to create a Lean Enterprise. Read more >
Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare This two-day workshop, incorporating examples from many healthcare settings, is designed to gain a better understanding of the components and underlying philosophy of lean, and how the elements and philosophy work together to create a lean healthcare organization.Special emphasis is placed on balancing Toyota’s equally-important core principles of continuous improvement and “respect for people.” Practical steps will be presented for starting with lean immediately upon returning to your healthcare organization, as well as a way of thinking through a longer-term lean strategy for your organization. Read more >
New!Leading the High Velocity Organization: How to Outrace Rivals in Quality, Cost, and Time to Market
A new workshop by Steven Spear based on his Shingo prize-winning book of the same title. The workshop will explore the capabilities that characterize high velocity organizations and how leaders can cultivate them in their own organizations.
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Lean Accounting To sustain a lean transformation, top executive and financial managers must know how to transform routine accounting practices to a new system that not only is lean itself but also supports lean practices. Read more >
New!Lean IT Attendees will benefit from this workshop as they develop a clear understanding of the central role played by the IT organization as a partner in continuous improvement and enterprise transformation from both inward and outward facing Lean IT. The workshop uses hands-on exercises and engaging discussion to create a fast-paced and fun experience. Participants will receive practical knowledge and examples which they can adapt to their organization. Read more >
Lean Management Seminar The intent and focus of the seminar is to help a small group of motivated participants get a management perspective on lean transformation. The seminar is designed for organizations that have had significant experience with implementing lean. It also assumes attendees are familiar with lean concepts and have had significant lean experience. Our screening process is designed to insure that participants will get the maximum value from the educational experience by limiting and qualifying attendance. Also note, the program is designed for management team attendance. At the minimum, a team consisting of an Operations/Plant manager and his or her Human Resources leader should attend together.
Workshop price: $2,995 per participant includes all instructional materials, breakfast and lunch each day of the seminar, and a reception the evening of day one. (2 1/2 day program) Read more >
Lean Problem Solving Harness the DNA of successful, sustainable lean implementations. You'll learn and practice the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) problem-solving method in this interactive workshop. Read more >
Lean Product Development Learn how a product development process minimizes lead-time while maximizing knowledge growth about the product, customer, and manufacturing through tools such as rapid learning cycles and set-based concurrent development. You’ll also be introduced to a value-stream mapping method created specifically to deal with the complexities inherent in product development. Read more >
Lean Warehousing and Distribution Operations Learn how to begin implementing lean principles step-by-step into a warehouse and/or distribution center, using techniques such as lean storage, operational diagramming, standardized work, workload planning, and visual management. Read more >
Made to Order Lean: Improving Production in a High Mix/Low Volume Environment An overall implementation method specific for low-volume and make-to-order businesses, along with specialized applications of lean tools. Not only will the focus be on the shop floor, but improvement methods for the office and administrative functions as well. Read more >
New!Made to Order Lean: Managing in High Mix/Low Volume Environment Management approaches and techniques introduced in this workshop will help you reduce the time you currently spend fire-fighting and focus on indirect/administrative process improvements to achieve lead-time reductions, increase process capacities and enhance customer satisfaction. Upon completion you will be energized with ideas on how to apply lean management tools which have been modified for high mix environments Read more >
Making Materials Flow How to implement, sustain, and improve a dependable material-handling ;system for purchased parts using pull, timed delivery routes, a central supermarket, and a Plan for Every Part (PFEP). Read more >
Managing Value-Stream Improvement Projects Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformation but there is more to a value-stream improvement project than value-stream mapping. Learn how to define and scope value stream improvement projects, problem solve to create lean future-state designs, use lean tools to implement and sustain the future state, and manage implementation of a lean transformation to plan. Read more >
Managing to Learn: The Use of the A3 Management Process This workshop introduces the A3 management process and the way of thinking represented in the A3 format that capture the heart of lean management. Participants will be provided an overview of various forms and uses of the A3 format and will have an opportunity to create their own A3. Working in small groups, they will be able to read, discuss, and evaluate each another’s A3s. Read more >
Mapping to See: An Orientation to the Value-Stream Improvement Kit for Office & Services This workshop is designed to provide trainers and facilitators with an in-depth orientation to the materials in "Mapping to See: A Value-Stream Improvement Kit for the Office and Services". Read more >
New!Open Access: Improving Patient Access to Ambulatory Care with Lean Thinking This is a course for those who have implemented some lean processes in their clinical operations and wish to couple advanced scheduling methodologies with them. It is applicable to a broad array of practice specialties. Read more >
Optimizing Flow in Office and Service Processes This workshop will demonstrate the application of the key Lean concepts of standard work, visual management, flow, and pull to information-intensive processes most often found in service and administrative environments. A simulationwill provide first-hand experience in an office kaizen event - participants will identify changes, implement them, and measure the impact of their efforts. Read more >
Senior Executive Forum Who Should Attend: Senior Executives that have full P&L responsibility for their organization. Typical titles of attendees would include; CEO, President, COO, Division General Manager (in larger decentralized organizations) or Senior Executives with Corporate level responsibility for transforming their organizations. Read more >
Senior Executive Seminar To help Senior Executives lead their organizations to greater success, LEI is hosting a series of Senior Executive Seminars involving small (15 people or less) groups of Senior Leaders in a two-day educational format. These two-day sessions are designed to create ongoing dialogue about the role of Senior Executives in lean transformations. Read more >
Standardized Work: The Foundation for Kaizen Standardized work is one of the most powerful but least used lean tool. Learn how documenting the current best practice (standardized work) forms the baseline for kaizen or continuous improvement. Read more >
New!Supporting Healthcare Leader Standard Work with Visual Management Tools If you are involved in Lean healthcare, in any capacity, you have probably heard about Gemba Walks and Visual Management. By combining Visual Management and Leader Standard Work, you harness the power of your organization seeing waste in real time and coming up with creative ways to eliminate it, improve patient care, and make the job of providing health care easier for everyone. This course will show you the basic tools necessary to reach those goals. This workshop has application in areas including: • Primary care • Pediatrics • Family practice • Optometry • Chiropractics & Alternative healthcare • Emergency departments • Surgical ICU’s Read more >
Sustainable Lean Culture: Connecting the “Product” and the “People” Value Streams Process-improvement tools are important, but their ultimate effectiveness depends on the ability to develop the underlying culture of problem solving to support continuous growth and improvement. This workshop explores the foundations of Toyota’s unique culture and helps you develop an action plan to support the transition from conventional to lean culture. Read more >
New!The Missing Link: Lean Thinking for Executives Program Purpose: The purpose of this interactive one-day program is to facilitate a discussion with senior leaders about the challenges and obstacles they face implementing change relative to the Lean transformation. The program will address the roles, responsibilities and competencies of senior leaders that support the implementation of the Lean enterprise. Read more >
Training to See: An Orientation to the Value-Stream Mapping Kit for Manufacturing Training to See: An Orientation to the Value-Stream Mapping Kit (formerly Train the Trainer in Value-Stream Mapping Workshop) provides you with the knowledge and training materials for running your own value-stream mapping workshops in a manufacturing environment. Read more >
Transformational Leadership: An Experiential Program for Lean Leaders This 2.5-day executive program uses experiential methodology to uncover the thinking that drives leaders’ behaviors. The program engages you in a realistic business simulation followed by a series of debriefs for reflection on your current leadership style and in order to help you develop a plan for moving toward a more effective lean leadership model. Read more >
Value-Stream Mapping for Healthcare This interactive workshop demonstrates how to apply lean principles and value-stream mapping, a fundamental and critical tool, to make fundamental improvements in a healthcare organization's clinical/administrative processes. See how these principles apply to the processes such as emergency medical care, pharmacy, diagnostic procedures (lab and radiology), patient registration and discharge, records, and billing. Read more >
Value-Stream Mapping for Manufacturing Learn how to use this fundamental initial step in a lean transformation to create the "blueprints" for applying other tools and targeting kaizen events most effectively. Read more >
New!Value-Stream Mapping for Manufacturing - Online Workshop Learn how to use this fundamental initial step in a lean transformation to create the "blueprints" for applying other tools and targeting kaizen events most effectively. Read more >
Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service Understand how to adapt the value-stream mapping tool to administrative, professional, and transactional activities. Read more >

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