Many organizations go down the path of implementing lean principles but often find that they do not realize all of the benefits they anticipated. There are four critical factors that determine whether lean principles will become ‘who you are’:

• Developing and promoting leaders with the right attitudes and behaviours
• Having a high degree of understanding of the three pillars of lean and how the tools of lean fit with them
• Developing a realistic plan that is continuously being worked on and communicated during an implementation, and
• Ensuring all levels of leaders but particularly front-line leaders have the ability to work with people through change

Course Content

• Leadership Practices and Competencies for successfully implementing lean
  • Management
  • Definition of Competencies Needed
  • Directional Activity
  • Providing and Maintaining the Right Structure
  • Monitoring and Measuring
  • Standardization of Systems and Processes
  • Leadership
  • Definition of Competencies Needed
  • Vision
  • Taking Care of Employee Needs
  • Motivation Role
  • Developing Innovation
• The Three Pillars of Lean
  • Work Place Management – standard work, lean daily management, …
  • Just In Time (JIT) – Kanban, leveling , TPM , SMED,
  • Error Proofing – Poka-Yoke
• Explaining the full tool kit of lean principles
• How to Develop the Plan for Implementation of Lean
  • Scope of an implementation
  • Essential elements of a site plan
  • Organization structure required to implement a site plan
  • Who should be the coordinator
  • Understanding the AS IS and WILL BE states
  • Defining the measurable outcomes and what success will look like
  • Choosing a starting path and following through
• Working with people through change