Rita Bailey

Maintaining a competitive advantage is a critical element in achieving outstanding business performance. Senior management executives must respond to changes in the economy and marketplace by making rapid and enhanced decisions based on precise data and research. This course will equip participants with tools and techniques for decisive and skilled decision making which will help them to outperform their competitors and become market leaders by focusing on the skills of Lean Leadership.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This challenging course is designed for executives, directors and senior managers who have the responsibility to make important decisions by reviewing, analysing and evaluating critical issues. Also it would benefit those who are interested in creating greater efficiency within their company and leading others through the Lean process.

COURSE PROFILE

•  Leadership style and approach to decision making

-          The problem-solving/decision-making cycle

• Defining the problem

-          Data gathering – facts finding

-          Identifying options

-          Charts, maps, and diagrams

-          Pareto , Ishikawa,  Constraint analysis

• Evaluation tools and techniques
• Creating a productive, solution-oriented culture
• Encouraging creativity and innovation
• Personal styles of learning and problem-solving
• Stages of effective problem-solving
• Giving constructive feedback
• Risk managing and scenario planning

-          Indentifying potential risks

-          Planning for uncertainties

-          Evaluating alternatives

• Financial information and decision making

-          Analysing the business intelligence

-          Financial troubleshooting

• Why introduce Lean?

-          Identify and reduce waste – shorter lead times, lower costs

-          Improved profitability, process control and utilisation of resources

-          Companywide team work - breaking down functional barriers

-          Seven wastes of Lean Leadership

• Introduction – Setting the Scene - “What Lean Means for Business”

-          Definitions – Jargon Busting

-          Breaking down functional barriers and ‘silo’ management structures

•  Lean Tools – An Overview – looking at these tools and the impact they have.

-          7 Wastes, 5S and visual factory, Kanban, Cellular manufacturing, Zero Quality Control, Source Inspection & Poka Yoke, Jidoka

-          Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

-          Lean Office, Value Stream Mapping

• People – “Winning the Hearts and Minds”

-          How to create a lean environment from disorder and chaos

-          Gemba and sensei Walks

-          Responsibility, accountability and ownership - 10 lean doctrines

• How to build a lean culture by utilising self-managing, empowered teams

-          Initiating Kaizen and Kaikaku (Kaizen Blitz) activities - making it work for your business

-          Utilising alliances with third parties

-          Getting the ‘cynics’ on board the programme

SKILLS ATTAINED

At the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Identify the root cause  of the  problem in a given situation
• Map out the likely consequences of alternative decisions
• Weigh the importance of individual factors and choose the best course of action
• Follow decisions through to conclusion
• Prepare for uncertain times and analyse risks
• Use financial information and business intelligence for decision making 
• Appreciate the lean tools available to their business
• Recognise ‘waste’ and non-value added activities throughout their organisations processes and their leadership practices.
• Generate diagnostic value stream maps of their own processes
• Appreciate standardised work plays in an organisation
• Re-enforce the lean message on a daily basis
• Create and then sustain a lean programme