Implementing a Lean Management System

Course details

Understanding lean leadership from a managerial standpoint helps ensure success throughout the entire leadership process. From accountability and standardized work to technological advances utilizing cutting-edge lean systems, this course equips you with the skills required to create a culture that builds and drives a sustainable long-term lean transformation.

Join award-winning leader and Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Tina Agustiady as she shows you how to cultivate new habits, adopt new behaviors, change belief systems, and approach work like never before. Along the way, Tina offers tips you can apply on the job to get stakeholders invested from the ground up. By the end of this course, you’ll also be apprised of the basics of implementing Leader Standard Work, the escalation and accountability process, and more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Utilizing culture and sustainability to implement lean
02 - Lean transformation is about culture
03 - Leading with respect for organizational excellence

1. Introduction to Lean and the Importance of Cultural Change

04 - Lean methodology overview
05 - Importance of cultural change in lean
06 - Resistance to the status quo for lean transformation
07 - Communicating change during lean implementation
08 - Stakeholder analysis when implementing a lean management system
09 - Lean philosophy as an enterprise solution
10 - Moving to a lean mindset

2. Management Support

11 - Roles and responsibilities on the lean team
12 - DMAIC overview
13 - Accountability with lean management systems implementation
14 - Lean management systems coaching

3. Strategic Thinking and Planning

15 - Lead with Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
16 - Policy deployment and implementation during lean transformation
17 - Problem-solving with plan, do, check, act

4. Accountability and Escalation Using Metrics That Matter

18 - Key metrics and SQDIP
19 - Visual management when communicating lean transformation
20 - Data-based decision-making and lean transformation

Conclusion

21 - Lean management system using culture and sustaining gains