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Lean Leader Program
Leadership teams that want to accelerate their teams’ adoption of lean thinking and practice understand that they, themselves, must first deepen their lean leadership capabilities. Created exclusively for leaders or soon-to-be leaders, the Lean Leader Program immerses participants in learning two vital practices:
- Solving problems using the A3 methodology
- Coaching their team members to solve problems the A3 way
Together, these two practices form the foundation for developing a lean management system.
Program Structure
Based on the groundbreaking book Managing to Learn, the two-part program first helps leaders learn the A3 problem-solving method, or enhance their A3 capability, by first immersing them in an A3 problem-solving experience that addresses a significant business issue.
In the second part, leaders learn effective ways to coach their team members in the A3 methodology by guiding direct reports through a similarly immersive A3 problem-solving experience.
Cycles one and two follow the same schedule. The first cycle is devoted to coaching the leader as a problem-solver and strategic planner, and the second, to developing the leader as a coach.
Lean Leader Capabilities Developed
Gemba Understanding
- Studies current situation of the work (work observation and investigation skills)
- Able to connect the problem at the gemba to the overall goals of the organization
Strategic Leadership
- Creates a clear, innovative vision and target for the team
- Can see overall strategy to address a problem
- Able to connect strategy to actions
- Able to concretely break down a problem into sub-problems
- Follows clear framework of structured A3 problem solving
- Establishes management PDCA to achieve the target
Lean Coaching
- Has a good grasp of lean concepts in order to guide and develop others
- Effectively coaches problem solving without taking away ownership – catchball
- Enjoys the development of others
- Persistently supports Team Members to see countermeasures through