Driving Operational Performance Workshops:
How to leverage lean principles and practices systematically

Learn how to manage operations so functional and frontline teams work on the right improvement efforts at the right time to strategically achieve performance targets that will help your organization meet its business objectives. Choose one or both.  

In the first workshop, you’ll focus on managing frontline teams as they do and improve their work processes using and integrating various lean practices and concepts, such as standardized work, pull system, kanban, and employee capability development. You’ll also experience lean coaching and guidance techniques, such as asking appropriate questions and showing respect when challenging team members to improve their work processes. 

In the second, you’ll learn how to use value-stream mapping to strategically plan continuous improvement efforts across product-focused value streams, helping you ensure you achieve substantial and sustainable impact on quality, costs, time to market, and other performance factors that are critical to customers and your company’s success. 

Building a Lean Operating and Management System 

2 Day | July 11-12, 2023
Instructor: Karen Gaudet, Senior Coach, LEI
Price: $1,599 Early bird | $1,999 Regular price

Gain the in-depth understanding of lean principles, thinking, and practices you need to develop and build a customized system that will guide your organization toward ever-improving performance. Completing this workshop will help you: 

• Develop an in-depth understanding and the necessary skills for designing and implementing an effective and flexible lean operating system that adapts to changing business conditions.   
• Grasp the nuances of integral lean concepts like flow, standard work, kaizen, takt, and pull systems.   
• Understand leaders’ and managers’ critical roles in creating, sustaining, and improving a lean operating system.  

Mapping the Value Stream:
Creating a Blueprint to Achieve a Lean Transformation  

1 Day | July 13, 2023
Instructor: Bryant Sanders, Senior Coach and Chief Engineer, Operations, LEI
Price: $799 Early bird | $999 Regular price

Discover and learn a process that will enable you to move from random spot improvements that create “islands of excellence” toward an approach that will help you strategically plan your continuous improvement efforts to achieve your organization’s business objectives. Completing this workshop will help you: 

• Execute the value-stream mapping process.    

• Explain why VSM is integral to lean thinking and practice.   
• Gain a better understanding of the linkages between material and information flow. 
• Establish a direction for your improvement efforts with an understanding of the relationship between process improvement and system improvement to help you meet your customers’ needs while achieving your business performance objectives.    
• Establish the basis for an effective lean implementation plan using key principles to design how your factory’s door-to-door material and information flow could ideally operate.   
• Give your team an understanding of the need for a common language and processes to collaborate on continuous improvement.   

Group Discount

Register three or more attendees for the same workshop as a group and save 12.5% off every registration. To receive a group discount, register as a group through the registration link, and the discount will automatically apply.

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel your registration for in-person workshops four weeks before the course start date for a full refund. A cancellation occurring within four weeks of the workshop dates will be subject to a $350 fee. To cancel, please call LEI at (617) 871-2900 or email registrar@lean.org.