The Essential Lean Leadership Training Course

The Essential Lean Leadership Training Course has been designed for individuals with responsibility for business improvement and the implementation of lean manufacturing. As a result of 1 day of training you will understand the importance of leadership, culture and strategy deployment in a successful lean transformation. You will also understand the implications of lean manufacturing on cost reduction, customer satisfaction, quality, lead time reduction and boosting morale.

Personnel with responsibility for the improvement of strategic planning, people development and process improvement should attend:

• Owner Managers
• Managing Directors
• Operations Directors/Managers
• Production Managers/Supervisors
• Senior Shop Floor Personnel
• First Line Managers
• Team Leaders

All attendees of the course will receive a free copy of the award winning lean manufacturing book that has sold over 3 million copies (worth $25). The Goal – The Process of Ongoing Improvements written by the late Eli M. Goldratt. This is a must read for all lean beginners and is written as a thriller style novel to transform management thinking.

You will also have many opportunities to discuss your own business improvement issues with our Lean Manufacturing Experts on the day of the training course.

This training course has been designed to suit business leaders and managers responsible for the implementation of lean manufacturing.

This course is also a great networking opportunity for you and your company will fellow manufacturers looking to instigate change. An Essential Lean Awareness Certificate will be awarded to all attendees of the course.

The benefits you will gain from attending the training course for lean beginners are as follows:

• An understanding of the size of the opportunity for business improvement that lean manufacturing operations represent for you.
• An understanding of how World Class Companies defined as Excellent all adopt lean manufacturing principles.
• An appreciation for the staged approach required when implementing strategy, culture and process improvements.
• A practical session on the qualities of a lean leader.
• In depth knowledge of the culture that needs to be developed for sustainable bottom line gains.
• The framework required to develop and deploy a World Class Strategy.
• The ability to develop your own strategy for implementing lean manufacturing.
• An understanding of the Kano Model and Customer Satisfaction.
• A detailed view of the lean approach to people behaviour and change.
• A real life example of a case study where lean manufacturing has transformed a business.
• A flavour of the leans tools utilised during business transformations.

Course Tutors

All our Lean Manufacturing Consultants have proven business experience in a ‘lean’ environment and receive excellent feedback on course delivery. We are passionate about achieving results from our courses but also understand that sitting through hours of theory can be a little boring. Therefore we all maintain a sense of humour, discuss relevant issues and utilise as much practical work as possible.

Booking

Please contact our friendly team to discuss the quantity of staff you wish to attend the course. Our courses do fill quickly when released so please book early to avoid disappointment.

If you prefer an in-house training course tailored to suit your own business needs please discuss with a member of our team. We can adapt our courses to suit any audience and include content relevant to your current training needs.