Practical Tools & Operational Tools for Lean Leaders at all levels.
There is a need for change. It has been a North American weakness to promote good technical people into managerial positions based on their technical capabilities, not on their ability to manage and achieve results through people. For many, the change is made with little or no training provided, which presents the risk of weakening technical strengths while producing ineffective managers.
Today, achieving results through others has never been more critical. In Lean environments, where productivity and continuous improvement determine one’s ability to compete and win, this course provides the practical thinking, tools, and skills to achieve results through people.
The course requires a minimum of four days because of the changes in thinking required to apply and sustain the lessons learned. The first two days should be back-to-back because of their intensity. Subsequent days can be spread out over a few weeks but with on-site assignments to be completed, in addition to the reading assignments provided.
The course is permeated by the themes and threads associated with Lean Thinking and how to achieve sustainable results through people. The course is broken into four major components:
1. The power of interdependence – human behavior & the factors to be considered and managed
2. Modeling the Manager’s role in Lean environments – the dynamics and effectiveness factors
3. Applying teams & their tools to win – practical thinking & proven team tools that work
4. Achieving the Best from Self & Others – focus on process, culture and sustainment
Who Should Attend & Prerequisites:
This course is for operational leaders and practitioners who direct the work of others and want to increase their effectiveness in achieving results through people. Participants may be at any level within an organization including production, engineering, sales, marketing, distribution, management, warehouse, R&D, maintenance, or anywhere within the supplier/customer chain.
Format:
To change thinking - the sessions are highly interactive, exercise-rich, and conversational, with excellent videotapes & discussion sessions. Participants are involved throughout. Recommended class sizes range from 12-20 people for full interaction. The four days can be broken into a 2 Day + 2 Day format with one or two weeks in between, or a 2 Day + 1 Day + 1 Day format with a week between each segment. Specific needs will be accommodated where possible.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this interactive training course, participants will:
1. Appreciate the major issues and challenges facing manufacturers, and what the winners are typically doing
2. Define World Class performance, Lean, the principles of Lean Thinking, and the role of the manager
3. Describe the different identities between a technical contributor and a manager
4. Understand and explain the 10 roles in the Mintzberg model, and the selected proven management theories
5. Map interdependencies & know how to determine, prioritize, and manage the expectations to be managed
6. Define Vision and understand its role, power, and application in aligning thinking and teams
7. Be able to develop a simple and effective vision to unite one’s team, organization or project staff
8. Know how to get the best from people by understanding and applying proven motivation factors
9. Know how to prepare, organize, deploy, and coach teams - and how to keep meetings effective
10. Understand and apply the 4 stages of effective delegation
11. Manage the most important person – yourself. Appreciate Emotional Intelligence and how it can be learned
12. Understand how to manage Performance by setting appropriate metrics and coaching
13. Apply selected Lean tools and how they can be optimized for results by teams and individuals
14. Develop an activity-based leadership model to guide their own growth as a manager and leader
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