Set Up for success
Establish a Solid Foundation for Your Lean Transformation
Our Set Up for Success services ensure that your organization is fully equipped to embrace Lean methodologies. Focusing on initial assessments, strategic planning, and effective communication structures, we provide the essential tools to build a strong foundation for continuous improvement and lasting success.
Solutions
Set Up For Success
- Lean 101 and Initial Lean Assessment
- Lean Boot Camp
- Strategic Planning Workshop
- Lean KPIs
- Continuous Improvement Structure and Communication Set Up
- Kaizen Facilitation Workshop
- Systems for Sustainment
- Reward and Recognition Systems
Overview
Lean 101 and Initial Lean Assessment
This is an On-Site Assessment that systematically gathers information and data and transforms it into a thorough understanding of where your company is today, based on the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Award criteria. I will listen and coach your team throughout the day in order for continued analysis later in your lean journey. We will then put together a gap analysis and proposal specific to your team and company.
Benefits
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Comprehensive Understanding of Your Current Operations: Gain a thorough analysis of your company’s current state, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
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Customized Improvement Plan: Receive a tailored plan combining classroom training with hands-on application, designed to drive your organization toward operational excellence.
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Enhanced Safety and Quality: Implement Lean strategies that improve workplace safety and product quality, ensuring higher standards across the board.
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Cost Reduction and Efficiency Gains: Identify and eliminate waste in your processes, leading to reduced costs, shorter lead times, and improved inventory management.
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Benchmarking Against Industry Standards: Compare your operations to industry benchmarks, providing a clear perspective on where you stand and where improvements can be made.
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Sustained Growth and Productivity: Establish a foundation for continuous improvement, leading to increased capacity and long-term productivity gains.
Learning Objectives
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Understand the Current State: Gain a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s current operational state, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
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Identify Gaps and Countermeasures: Learn how to identify gaps in your processes and develop effective countermeasures to address them.
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Evaluate Future State Plans: Acquire the skills to evaluate and plan for a future state that aligns with Lean principles, setting the stage for long-term success.
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Benchmark Performance: Learn to benchmark your operations against industry standards, providing a clear framework for continuous improvement.
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Develop a Tailored Lean Strategy: Gain the knowledge to develop a customized Lean strategy that fits your organization’s unique needs and objectives.
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Communicate and Implement Lean Improvements: Learn how to effectively communicate the Lean improvements throughout your organization and implement them successfully.
Overview
Lean Boot Camp
The Lean Boot Camp is an engaging and hands-on workshop designed to rejuvenate your operations by applying key Lean principles. This intensive session focuses on eliminating waste throughout your value stream while improving Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery, and Morale. Through interactive learning and real-world case studies, participants will gain practical tools and insights that can be immediately applied to drive positive, sustainable change within their organizations. Whether you're a leader, manager, or team member, this workshop equips you with the critical Lean concepts needed to elevate your company to excellence.
Benefits
- Immediate Application: Gain practical Lean tools and best practices that can be applied directly to your operations for meaningful and measurable results.
- Enhanced Critical Thinking: Develop the ability to identify and eliminate waste by understanding key Lean concepts and systems for continuous improvement.
- Strategic Alignment: Learn to align your organization’s objectives and goals through strategic Lean methods, ensuring everyone is working toward the same vision.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Break down barriers between departments and teams to foster effective collaboration and improve overall efficiency.
- Comprehensive Lean Understanding: Obtain a broad overview of Lean applications across the enterprise, empowering you to implement Lean strategies in various areas of your organization.
- Customer and Supplier Measurement: Develop systems to measure and improve customer satisfaction and supplier performance, enhancing accountability and driving continuous improvement.
- Hands-On Learning: Participate in simulations and exercises that reinforce key Lean concepts, ensuring a deep understanding of how to implement these strategies in real-world situations.
Learning Objectives
- Understand Lean Language: Gain fluency in the language of Lean, enabling effective communication of Lean concepts across the organization.
- Develop Critical Thinking for Leaders: Learn essential critical thinking elements that leaders must know to successfully guide teams and manage processes effectively.
- Implement System Thinking: Understand how costs are related to decisions within the Lean framework and develop system thinking to optimize organizational processes.
- Master Immediate Application Tools: Learn and practice Lean tools that can be immediately implemented to engage the workforce and uncover hidden waste.
- Enhance Customer and Supplier Accountability: Develop and apply measurement systems to improve accountability and performance with customers and suppliers.
- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Learn strategies to break down cross-functional barriers, enhancing teamwork and collaboration across the organization.
- Implement Pull Systems: Gain the skills needed to implement pull systems that drive material replenishment, ensuring greater efficiency and accountability in the supply chain.
Overview
Strategic Planning Workshop
The Strategic Planning Workshop is designed to provide your company with the clarity needed to align its direction with long-term goals. Through this workshop, participants will learn how to craft effective vision and mission statements, design strategic objectives, and create a comprehensive plan that ensures alignment across all levels of the organization. This hands-on and classroom-based workshop equips leaders with the tools to propel the business forward, focusing on a three-year outlook to achieve success.
Benefits
- Clarity in Vision and Mission: Gain a clear understanding of your company’s direction and the steps needed to achieve it.
- Alignment of Strategic Goals: Ensure that strategic objectives are aligned with the company’s vision and cascade effectively throughout the organization.
- Focused Strategic Implementation: Develop and deploy strategies that are directly linked to your core competencies and business models.
- Enhanced Communication: Improve communication of strategic plans across all levels of the organization with standardized templates and a one-page strategic plan.
Learning Objectives
- How to write an effective vision statement.
- How to create a mission statement based on your true core competency.
- How to design business and financial objectives that drive behavior and produce results.
- How to create strategies that define the business models and best practices critical to your success.
- How to deploy major business-building projects that implement your strategies.
Overview
Lean KPIs
The Lean KPIs workshop focuses on the strategic implementation of key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive lean manufacturing improvements. This service emphasizes the importance of forward-thinking metrics that align with company goals to enhance responsiveness and flexibility throughout the supply chain.
Benefits
- Real-Time Decision-Making: Provides employees with real-time data, empowering them to make informed decisions that improve process efficiency.
- Employee Involvement: Encourages employee involvement in identifying and addressing issues, which is crucial for eliminating waste and enhancing processes.
- Alignment with Corporate Goals: Ensures that metrics are synchronized with corporate objectives, providing a unified approach to achieving company-wide goals.
- Improved Process Efficiency: Focuses on utilizing KPIs to identify and resolve issues before they escalate, leading to more efficient operations.
Learning Objectives
- Understand Key Performance Metrics throughout the enterprise—from the plant floor to C-Level Metrics.
- Learn how to collect meaningful data and communicate metrics effectively.
- Understand how metrics should synchronize with corporate goals and objectives.
Overview
Continuous Improvement Structure and Communication Set Up
Every great structure starts with a solid foundation, and your journey toward continuous improvement is no different. During these setup days, you'll gain the essential building blocks needed for a sustainable improvement system. This includes marketing and communicating the systems, the creation of standard work for the system, and addressing the critical questions of Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How.
Continuous improvement is an ongoing journey, but like any journey, it requires clear goals and a defined destination. You’ll learn how to set measurable objectives, track progress, and communicate results effectively. We’ll also define roles and responsibilities, establish the budget and investment needed, and pinpoint the starting point of your improvement system. By answering these key questions, we’ll lay the groundwork for a continuous improvement system that’s built to last.
Benefits
- Establishes a Strong Foundation for Continuous Improvement: Ensures that your organization starts with a well-defined structure that supports sustainable growth and improvement.
- Clarifies Roles and Responsibilities: Clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of the Continuous Improvement (CI) team, fostering accountability and effective teamwork.
- Sets Clear Goals and Objectives: Provides a roadmap for continuous improvement by defining specific, measurable goals and objectives aligned with organizational strategy.
- Streamlines Communication: Implements effective communication strategies, ensuring that progress, updates, and achievements are shared across the organization in a timely manner.
- Standardizes Processes: Creates standard work for CI-related activities, ensuring consistency and quality across all improvement initiatives.
- Supports Long-Term Planning: Establishes a first-year calendar schedule and long-term planning tools to keep continuous improvement efforts on track.
- Enhances Employee Engagement: Involves leadership and key stakeholders in the CI process, encouraging active participation and buy-in at all levels.
- Provides Essential Tools and Templates: Supplies your organization with the necessary tools, templates, and communication materials to support ongoing CI efforts.
Deliverables
- CI Team Structure: A clearly defined Continuous Improvement (CI) team, including roles and responsibilities for each team member.
- Goals and Objectives: A set of well-defined goals and objectives for the CI initiative, aligned with the organization’s strategic direction.
- First-Year Calendar Schedule: A comprehensive calendar outlining key milestones, activities, and checkpoints for the first year of the CI program.
- Communication Plan: A detailed communication plan, including standard work for internal and external communication, marketing strategies, and templates.
- Standard Work Documentation: Documentation of standard work processes related to the CI system, ensuring consistency and quality across the organization.
- Communication Templates: Ready-to-use templates for various communication modalities, such as newsletters, bulletin boards, emails, and internal reports.
- Training Materials Database: A structured database that organizes all training materials, plans, and resources needed to support the CI program.
- Frequency and Modality Guidelines: Guidelines for the frequency and modality of communications, ensuring effective information dissemination across different channels.
Overview
Kaizen Facilitation Workshop
The Kaizen Facilitation workshop is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to effectively lead and facilitate Kaizen events. Through a blend of classroom instruction and participative learning, participants will learn the roles and responsibilities of a Kaizen Facilitator, how to create a Kaizen Facilitation Playbook and the key elements of leading a successful Kaizen event. This workshop also focuses on effective training techniques and the continuous assessment and improvement of team leaders.
Benefits
- Practical Application of Lean Tools: Participants will take away Lean tools and best practices that can be directly applied to their work environments for meaningful results.
- Enhanced Audience Analysis: Learn to analyze your audience and tailor training materials for more effective delivery.
- Best Practices for Engagement: Gain access to best practices that encourage active participation and discussion during Kaizen events.
- Handling Challenging Situations: Develop tactics for managing unexpected situations and difficult participants.
- Collaborative Playbook Creation: Work as a team to create a comprehensive Kaizen Facilitation Playbook.
- Interactive Coaching: Engage in interactive coaching sessions with team leaders and trainers for constructive feedback and improvement.
- Improved Teaching Techniques: Participate in interactive teaching and assessment exercises to refine your facilitation techniques.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of a Kaizen Facilitator.
- Learn how to create a Kaizen Facilitation Playbook.
- Master the key elements of leading a Kaizen event.
- Prepare for and effectively follow up on Kaizen events.
- Develop effective training techniques for Kaizen events.
- Continuously assess and improve the performance of trainers and team leaders.
Overview
Systems for Sustainment
The systems for sustainment service focuses on creating a culture of continuous improvement that is both contagious and sustainable. This presentation demonstrates how to eliminate waste throughout your value stream using lean tools and creative employee engagement. The session covers the implementation of closed-loop systems, visual management techniques, and methods for maintaining and sustaining gains within your organization.
Benefits
- Accountability and Sustainability: Learn techniques to hold team members accountable and ensure continuous improvement through closed-loop systems.
- Creation of Standard Non-Negotiables: Understand how to establish and maintain key standards and practices that reinforce continuous improvement.
- Visual Accountability: Develop visual management systems that provide clear accountability and help maintain Kaizen gains.
- Positive Reinforcement: Learn how to use visual techniques and systems to drive cultural change, company pride, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Team Engagement: Gain skills to engage team members through clear communication, mutual responsibility, and development opportunities.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the concept and importance of closed-loop systems that ensure continuous operation and improvement.
- Learn how to implement visual management systems that answer key operational questions (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How).
- Explore techniques to drive cultural change, accountability, and company pride through visual systems.
- Review examples of existing closed-loop systems that are easy to implement and yield sustainable gains.
Overview
Reward and Recognition Systems
The reward and recognition systems workshop is designed to equip managers with the tools and techniques necessary to create and maintain a dynamic culture of employee recognition. This service focuses on leveraging best practice Manpower Motivators to drive employee engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. Managers will learn how to implement effective recognition systems that foster a productive and profitable work environment.
Benefits
- Enhanced Employee Motivation: Learn how to implement a key list of Manpower Motivators to instantly boost team morale and engagement.
- Understanding Motivators: Gain insight into why each motivator works and how to best utilize financial and non-financial rewards.
- Positive Workplace Culture: Develop a company-wide Culture of Recognition that encourages proactive motivation and continuous improvement.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of recognition in fostering employee engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty.
- Learn effective techniques and tools for recognizing employees in both financial and non-financial ways.
- Explore real-life examples of successful recognition programs and how they can be implemented in your organization.
- Understand the role of managers in driving successful recognition efforts and sustaining them over time.