Leadership Development
Empower Your Leaders to be Catalysts of Change
Our Leadership Development services focus on empowering your leadership team with the skills and insights needed to guide your Lean journey. Through targeted coaching and practical leadership techniques, we help you build a team that inspires and sustains transformative change.
Solutions
Leadership Development
- Leadership Coaching
- Train the Trainer Workshop
- Leader Standard Work
- Lean 101 Teacher Assessment and Coaching Workshop
- Daily Management and Gemba Leadership Training
- Leading Effective Teams
- AME Lean Sensei Facilitation Workshop
Overview
Leadership Coaching
Our Leadership Coaching service is designed to empower plant management and supervisory teams with the skills and tools necessary for driving sustainable improvements across the organization. Over 3-5 days per month, an experienced Sensei will mentor your leadership team, focusing on critical areas such as problem-solving, strategic planning, and continuous improvement. This hands-on coaching program ensures that your leaders not only develop the essential skills to enhance operational efficiency but also cultivate a culture of accountability, focus, and forward-thinking strategies that align with the company’s vision for growth and excellence.
Benefits
- Enhanced Problem-Solving Skills: Equip your leadership team with critical thinking tools to tackle complex challenges effectively.
- Improved Communication: Foster clear, consistent communication across all levels of the organization, leading to better alignment and collaboration.
- Employee Engagement: Increase employee motivation and involvement through leadership practices that drive engagement and accountability.
- Operational Efficiency: Implement sustainable, visual processes that reduce waste, improve safety, and enhance overall productivity.
- Strategic Growth: Develop a leadership culture that is focused on strategic planning, ensuring the company is always moving towards its long-term goals.
Learning Objectives
- Develop Critical Thinking: Cultivate the ability to analyze problems and develop effective solutions using Lean tools and methodologies.
- Enhance Leadership Skills: Strengthen leadership capabilities in key areas such as Safety Management, Quality Management, Production, and Material Flow Systems.
- Promote a Culture of Improvement: Instill a mindset of continuous improvement and accountability within the leadership team to drive sustainable change.
- Improve Communication Skills: Equip leaders with the tools to communicate clearly and effectively, ensuring alignment and engagement across the organization.
- Strategic Visioning: Enable leaders to develop and execute strategic plans that align with the company’s long-term goals and vision.
Overview
Train the Trainer Workshop
The Train the Trainer Workshop is designed to equip participants with the skills necessary to become effective and engaging trainers. By focusing on classroom engagement, participant behavior, and adaptive training techniques, this workshop prepares trainers to deliver impactful and memorable learning experiences. Through practical exercises and real-world applications, participants will learn to manage classroom dynamics, handle disruptions, and present material in an engaging manner.
Benefits
- Enhanced Audience Analysis: Learn to analyze and understand your audience, tailoring your training materials for maximum effectiveness.
- Engagement Best Practices: Gain access to best practices for engaging learners and encouraging active participation.
- Handling Difficult Situations: Develop strategies to manage challenging participants and unexpected situations in the classroom.
- Improved Training Delivery: Participants will refine their ability to deliver clear, concise, and engaging presentations.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the qualities of an exceptional trainer.
- Understand different behavior styles and adapt training methods accordingly.
- Demonstrate and practice various training exercises.
- Explain what a well-structured training program looks like and outline an example.
- Develop strategies for managing disruptive participants.
- Present information clearly and concisely, ensuring effective communication.
Overview
Leader Standard Work
The Leader Standard Work workshop is designed to guide leaders in defining, analyzing, and documenting the set of actions they must perform daily, weekly, or monthly to ensure their organization or team functions successfully. This course will cover the key elements of leader standard work, helping leaders identify supporting activities and tools and determining the critical actions to include in their standard work routines.
Benefits
- Personalized Documentation: Each leader will document their unique combination of activities and responsibilities on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Streamlined Operations: The workshop helps leaders create structure and clarity around standard meetings, work routines, and actions, leading to more organized operations and reduced confusion and wasted time.
- Enhanced Efficiency: By defining and documenting their Leader Standard Work, leaders will save time and be able to quickly reference their routines, allowing more time for coaching, training, and learning.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to analyze and document Leader Standard Work.
- Understand how to use Leader Standard Work daily, weekly, and monthly to save time and increase efficiency.
- Incorporate coaching, training, and learning into the documented Leader Standard Work routines.
Overview
Lean 101 Teacher Assessment and Coaching Workshop
The Lean 101 Teacher Assessment and Coaching workshop is designed to prepare participants to effectively present a Lean 101 class. By developing their own training deck and examples, participants will enhance their teaching abilities, leading to greater engagement and comprehension among their students. The Sensei will observe and provide feedback on their teaching, helping them refine their skills and improve their training delivery.
Benefits
- Enhanced Teaching Skills: Participants will improve their ability to train others effectively by creating and delivering a Lean 101 class.
- Improved Training Materials: Participants will gain the skills needed to develop engaging and effective training decks.
- Comprehensive Understanding of Lean: Teaching Lean 101 will deepen participants' understanding of Lean principles.
- Constructive Feedback: Participants will receive direct coaching and feedback from the Sensei to enhance their teaching methods.
- Capability to Assess Others: Learn how to assess and provide constructive feedback to others who are teaching Lean 101.
Learning Objectives
- Create their own 40-minute Lean 101 Workshop.
- Present in front of the Sensei for coaching and improvement opportunities.
- Deliver a refined Lean 101 class to other students after receiving feedback and coaching.
Overview
Daily Management and Gemba Leadership Training
Daily Management and Gemba Leadership Training focuses on developing leaders who can effectively manage and improve operations on the shop floor, where real work takes place. The training emphasizes the importance of understanding the 4Ms (Man, Machine, Material, and Method) in the workplace and applying lean principles to identify and solve problems at the root cause. Participants will learn how to implement daily management processes, drive continuous improvement, and foster a culture of engagement and ownership among employees.
Benefits
- Enhanced Employee Engagement: Increases ownership and accountability among workers, leading to a more engaged and motivated workforce.
- Elimination of Waste: Helps identify and reduce waste in processes, leading to reduced lead times and inventory levels.
- Firefighting Reduction: Shifts focus from reactive firefighting to proactive problem-solving at the source.
- Improved Communication: Enhances communication and collaboration among associates, suppliers, and customers.
- Sustained Performance Improvement: Drives continuous improvement in value stream performance through the implementation of sustainable processes.
Learning Objectives
- Apply key elements of the Daily Management Process.
- Conduct Daily Management and Lean Transformation Audits.
- Begin installation of Daily Management for cells and create a Daily Management Installation Action Plan.
- Integrate Visual Management with Daily Management.
- Develop critical thinking skills necessary for leading people and managing processes.
- Understand the operational excellence and system thinking required to link cost to decisions.
- Identify and reduce areas of waste to improve lead time and inventory.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration to break down silos and enhance teamwork.
- Implement pull systems to drive material replenishment and establish visibility in the supply chain.
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Leading Effective Teams
The Leading Effective Teams workshop focuses on developing the skills necessary to lead a highly effective team. This course covers key aspects of leadership, including system thinking, structure, communication, and listening skills. Participants will learn how to lead their teams with purpose, create clear goals, and constructively address challenges through practical applications and exercises.
Benefits
- Improved Team Meetings: Learn how to prepare, conduct, and follow up on team meetings effectively.
- Structured Team Management: Use structured templates to track team activities and communicate results in real-time.
- Enhanced Team Marketing: Understand how to market team activities and results meaningfully, building respect within the team and with key customers.
- Conflict Resolution: Learn strategies to overcome and eliminate drama within the team, leading to more productive outcomes.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the qualities of a great Team Leader.
- Assess and develop actions to improve your team leadership skills.
- Understand how to manage processes and lead people effectively.
- Rally the team around clear communication and the team mission.
- Learn how to develop and set team goals.
- Understand and use 4 Blocker Updates.
- Learn how to deal with problem team members.
- Challenge staff in a meaningful and effective way.
- Drive team success using a structured approach.
Overview
AME Lean Sensei Facilitation Workshop
The AME Lean Sensei Facilitation Workshop helps organizations achieve higher levels of improvement maturity by using the Lean Sensei self-assessment and AME Excellence Award criteria. This workshop empowers participants to assess and enhance their organization's effectiveness in practicing continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Improved ability to assess and enhance organizational improvement efforts.
- Practical tools and methods to encourage consistent improvement practices.
- Insight into benchmarking against other organizations and using AME criteria for excellence.
- Development of actionable improvement plans tailored to the organization.
Learning Objectives
- Learn to effectively assess improvement effectiveness using the AME Excellence Award criteria.
- Navigate through AME Lean Sensei questions to identify gaps in improvement efforts.
- Create action plans based on AME Lean Sensei findings to drive continuous improvement.
- Understand how to benchmark organizational performance against top-performing companies.