Lean Tools and Implementation Workshop
Course Description
My lean tools and implementation on-demand workshop contains thirteen different lessons to help you and your team learn to use five key lean tools in an engaged, memorable manner. Completion of the workshop exercises helps you and your team identify lean transition barriers, such as how to find time for improvement.
Plus, the exercises help you develop strategies that enforce the need for daily tool use. Most importantly, you learn how to redesign the jobs of your leaders so their daily efforts have more of a customer value and waste reduction focus.
Key Concepts Covered Include:
- How to Make Lean Thinking a Daily Habit
- Identifying the Need for Lean Tool Use
- Lean Tools and Concepts Overview
- Creating Cultural Support for Lean Tool Use
- The Importance of Lean Leadership
- Value Stream Mapping and Key Process Definition
- Creating a Visual Workplace
- The Role of 5S in the Visual Workplace
- Designing Our Workplace to Support Lean Success
- How to Create and Benefit from a Pit Crew Mentality
- Identifying and removing Lean Conversion Barriers
- Creating High Performance Supervisors
- Planning for Future Lean Success
Course Details
There are thirteen lessons in this course. Each lesson has between 2 and 5 topics. Each topic has key dialogue questions and a video. To complete a lesson, you must (1) watch the video in its entirety and (2) pass the Lesson test.
Lesson Exercise Packs – Each lesson has a downloadable Exercise Pack. The Exercise Pack contains the key questions and exercises for the Lesson. You only need to download the Exercise Pack once per lesson. Each pack covers all topics in a lesson.
Other Support Downloads – Some lessons include downloadable materials in addition to the exercise Packs. Examples include different surveys and audits to help you assess process excellence readiness. Be sure to check each topic’s Materials tab for these helpful tools.
Support Workbook – The videos mirror the content of my ‘Fundamentals of Lean Tools and Concepts’ workbook. However, all text from the workbook is not included online.
You can buy my workbook in print or ebook form from amazon.com as part of the free course registration process.