2-Day Workshop
March 7th - 8th
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Price: $1200

Instructors:

Tracey Richardson

Discover in detail the lessons and insights contained in Managing to Learn, the Shingo Research Prize-winning book that lucidly describes the A3 management process at the heart of lean management and leadership. You'll find out why an A3 is so much more than an 11 x 17-inch sheet of paper as you explore this ground-breaking principle from four perspectives.

You'll learn:

1. How to observe sound A3 thinking and management by following the stages of learning.
2. How to recognize effective A3s. You'll read several A3s then discuss how you would coach the authors to improve the analysis and story.
3. How to create the Title, Background, Current Situation, Goal, Analysis, and Recommendations sections of an A3 for a problem at work. Bring an A3 you're working on or attack a different problem with a new A3 in class.
4. What are the various forms and uses of the A3 format including:
   • Basic types of A3 stories.
   • Role that A3 plays for gaining alignment with stakeholders in a problem.
   • How A3s function as a change management tool, a general management tool, a human development tool, and a knowledge sharing tool.

Who benefits:

• Managers who want to improve their organization.
• Executives and managers who want to lead and manage more effectively.
• Change agents, lean promotion office managers, and specialists.
• HR and OD professionals who want to deeply improve the thinking, behavior, alignment, and performance of their company and its people.
• Anyone who wishes to improve his or her lean thinking ability

2-Day Workshop
March 7th - 8th
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Price: $2000

Instructor:

Kirk Paluska

Margie Hagene

Jim Luckman

Deepen your self-awareness as a leader while you develop and practice new leadership behaviors to create the problem-solving culture that sustains lean transformations.

Get ready to be transformed from leader to lean leader. In this intensive experiential session, you'll participate in a realistic business simulation designed to help you learn and practice the personal leadership behaviors that support the open problem-solving culture at the core of lean transformations.

You'll emerge with a better understanding of your present leadership behaviors and the organizational assumptions that drive them. After each round of the simulation, experienced lean practitioners who are LEI faculty members will guide you through periods of reflection to help you rethink existing leadership paradigms. You'll make a leap in understanding how to move toward leadership behaviors that are more effective at managing the change process of lean transformations.

You'll learn:

• How to develop experiments to create a new problem-solving culture.
• How to address gaps in your company's leadership systems so that a culture of problem-solving and continuous improvement develops.
• What core behaviors and practices characterize lean leaders.
• How to use a "lean lens" to uncover and change the thinking patterns that form the foundation of organizational culture and that drive leaders' behaviors.
• What exactly is your role as a leadership change agent.
• How to develop a plan for personal and/or organizational transformations to create a problem-solving culture.

Who benefits:

• Senior executives
• Functional leaders
• Executive change agents

2-Day Workshop
March 7th - 8th
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Price: $1200

Instructor:

Michael Hoseus

Frustrated with kaizen events and isolated "lilly pad" improvement projects that yield short-term results but are tough to sustain?

Then learn how to connect the "Product" and "People" value streams so you build the foundation for a sustainable lean culture based on problem solving. In this workshop, you'll explore the unique culture of Toyota: What is it? How to get it? How to keep it?

You'll learn:

• What is "servant leadership."
• Why focusing on cost cutting is the wrong approach for implementing lean.
• Why delegating lean to others doesn't work, and may hurt your bottom line.
• How to implement management systems to sustain improvement activity.
• How to attract, select, and develop competent and committed team members.
• How to develop leaders who sustain and improve lean systems.
• The role of HR in supporting a lean transformation.
• Visual management and two-way communication.
• How to establish a culture of trust and continuous improvement.
• How to identify and prioritize the "gaps" in your company's leadership, technical, and human systems that must change to build a lean culture.
• How to develop a clear action plan to address the key gaps with strategy deployment (hoshin) and A3 thinking.

Who benefits:

• CEOs
• Presidents
• Vice-presidents
• General managers
• Lean leaders
• Any one facilitating change

1-Day Workshop
March 8th
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Price: $600

Instructor:

Robert Martichenko

Improve customer satisfaction and supplier performance by expanding the lean transformation beyond production. Based on the latest LEI workbook, Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream by Martichenko and co-author Kevin von Grabe, this workshop teaches you how to apply lean principles to the supply chain and logistics functions.

Beginning with understanding the current condition of your logistics and supply chain networks, you’ll learn how to map value streams for the extended enterprise, isolate areas of waste and uncover opportunities for collaboration and cost reduction by applying the key concept of "total cost of ownership."

You'll learn:

• The critical elements of building the Lean Fulfillment Stream.
• How to map the extended enterprise value stream.
• How to calculate "total cost of ownership" for material purchases in order to decrease inventory, space, lead time, and logistics costs, while increasing fill rates.
• How to uncover areas of waste to reduce lead time and inventory levels.
• How to create an optimized logistics network based on flow, pull, and collaboration.
• How to develop an implementation roadmap.
• How to sustain and improve the lean supply chain.

Who benefits:

• Lean implementation leaders, logistics managers, supply chain managers, material managers, all senior management.
• Lean manufacturers and suppliers to lean manufacturers.
• Any manufacturer that is ready to connect production to the supply base using lean principles.

1-Day Workshop
March 8th
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Price: $600

Instructor:

Sammy Obara

Encourage sustainable continuous improvement as a daily way of life for everyone in the company by introducing a comprehensive kaizen methodology to evaluate, implement, and recognize improvement ideas. This workshop uses a "hear-see-do" approach. You'll learn key concepts through instruction, discussion, simulation, and small-group exercise.

You'll learn:

• The fundamentals of kaizen and its importance as a central element of a lean system.
• How kaizen fits in the Toyota Production System "house."
• How to start a kaizen culture.
• What are the steps to prepare a company for kaizen.
• What are the structural requirements for implementation: training, forms, evaluation, steering board, guidelines.
• How to document kaizen improvements.
• How to judge improvement proposals.
• How to plan for the introduction of kaizen in your organization.
• How to support continuous improvement with visual management, kaizen boards, proposal scoring matrix, rewards system, monthly metrics reporting, etc.
  

Who will benefit:

• Office personnel and operators who should understand the importance of performing daily kaizen.
• Leaders who have to evaluate people's improvement proposals.
• Engineers and lean leaders who must support, and teach kaizen.
• Organizations at any stage of a lean transformation that are struggling with:

• Failure to sustain results from suggestions or kaizen events
• Problems in getting collaborators to propose improvements for their work areas
• Poor ownership from employees for changing the status quo

1-Day Workshop
March 8th
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Price: $600

Instructor:

Joe Murli

Learn how to review your existing management systems and replace them with more effective lean methods so you become more effective at creating a sustainable lean culture. You'll gain valuable insights into the repetitive and variable aspects of your job, specifically, the traditional tools used in planning and control. Then you'll examine a variety of lean management tools that you can use to create a management system that supports a culture of problem solving and continuous improvement.  

You’ll learn:

• What is management standard work.
• How lean organizations are different and what do they need from management in order to thrive.
• What are the specific thinking and behavior patterns needed in lean organizations and what must management do to meet these needs.
• How to design standard work that integrates "gemba walks," visual management, mentoring sessions, and more traditional methods such as regularly scheduled meetings and e-mails.  
• Lean management techniques for the 4 stages of implementation:

• Initial exploration of tools     
• Pilot implementation phase
• The cultural transformation phase
• The continuous improvement phase

• How to transition from current management practices to desired future-state methods.
• Reflection and continuous improvement methods for management processes.

Who benefits:

• Executives
• Senior and mid-level managers
• HR executives responsible for management development, and rewards and recognition systems