Lean Facilitation Skills

Rapid Improvement Event Preparation & Facilitation

Typical Duration: 8 hours
Delivery Options: Seminar or Customized On-site
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Rapid improvement or kaizen activities which implement change in organization processes are one of the most important elements in a successful lean implementation. Explore all the elements for and running a lean event. Roles are outlined and data gathering strategies are explored to help facilitators and team leaders understand the various roles and requirements.

Learn about:

Creating process changes through rapid improvement activities
Elements of preparing for and running a lean event
The roles and requirements of facilitators, team leaders and event participants
Skills to lead lean initiatives within your organization

Tools for Lean Facilitation: Idea Generation

Typical Duration: 8 hours
Delivery Options: Seminar or Customized On-site
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Working in cross-functional teams is most valuable when the activity leverages the ideas and insights of all of its members. This seminar will teach participants how to use lean tools for generating, organizing, and using ideas. Practice with tools that organizations use on their own as well as in combination with other lean techniques. Obtain resources for further study about creativity tools and decision-making methods applied in a lean environment.

Learn about:

Using lean tools to generate ideas
Strategies to organize and use ideas to implement improvement
Tools to encourage creativity, brainstorming and idea generation

Tools for Lean Facilitation: Prioritizing & Selecting Solutions

Typical Duration: 8 hours
Delivery Options: Seminar or Customized On-site
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The power of teamwork lies in using the best brainpower available. Often, however, teams come up with more possible solutions than they could reasonably implement. This seminar will enable you to identify themes within a list of ideas, combine the best aspects of various options, and select the best solution to put in place. Learn how to develop and use evaluation criteria. Practice with lean tools that help teams to decide which solution provides the best opportunity to achieve its improvement goals.

Learn about:

The importance of selecting solutions that are a "best fit"
Ways teams can prioritize solutions
Evaluation criteria options