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Lean Practitioner Training

 

Transforming Your Value Stream (Manufacturing and Service)

This workshop will touch upon:

  • The 7 Wastes

  • When to use VSM

  • Team set up

  • Scoping

  • Mapping the current state

  • Verifying data

  • Mapping the ideal Future State

  • Complete the implementation plan

  • Presentation to leadership sponsors

Prerequisite: None, although this workshop is targeted towards individuals whose responsibilities include leading change.

 

Kaizen Events

Learn about the rapid improvement projects called Kaizen Events with a specific aim for improvement.  Typically Kaizen Events are a week long and are led by a lean facilitator who uses various process improvement tools to identify the problem and implement solutions.

This workshop will touch upon:

  • What is a Kaizen Event?

  • Fundamental Steps for a Kaizen Event

  • Tips and Tricks of successful Kaizen Events

  • Sharing from member companies and Exercises

Prerequisite: None, although this workshop is targeted towards individuals who have completed the EVLA’s Lean Core Training classes.

 

Problem Solving (5 whys, 8D, KT, FOCUS)

Improve your decision-making capabilities through critical thinking, structured reasoning, and creative problem analysis. Effective decision makers are those rare individuals who are able to consistently identify and choose the best option among multiple alternatives. Their decisions are imaginative, reasoned, and defensible.

In this course, you will be provided with the training and tools necessary to become an inventive, logical decision maker. You’ll explore a structured way to approach and dismantle problems, and you’ll learn to clarify problems in terms of objectives and issues, with a view toward optimum outcomes.

Applying the techniques of critical thinking allows you to dismantle complex problems and to understand the inputs and implications of your thought processes. This training allows you to develop positions on issues that are logical and explicable to others.

 

This Problem Solving and Critical Thinking workshop will touch upon:

  • PDCA

    • What is PDCA

    • How to apply PDCA to problems in the workplace

    • Activity

  • A3 model

    • What is an A3

    • How to apply A3 to problems in the workplace

    • Activity

Prerequisite: None, although this workshop is targeted towards individuals whose responsibilities include leading change within an organization and/or managing significant change projects

 

Project Management

Project management and high performing teams are a critical part of any continuous improvement journey.  In this course, we will cover several project planning methods in addition to learning how to estimate project scope and schedule. We’ll also discuss how we manage project resources and engage the most important part of any project:  people. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to do the following:

  • Plan and estimate project scope, resources, and schedule

  • Utilize effective tools to facilitate team engagement

Prerequisite: None

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