Role-Based Training Courses
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Everyone: In a high-performing organization, everyone is engaged in doing their work and helping to improve it every day and everywhere. These courses provide a basic understanding of continuous improvement and skill development including: value and waste detection, goal setting, performance measurement, simple problem solving, and working well as a team.
1. White Belt (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma) (aka Introduction to Improvement: Seeing the Possible) course to gain a foundational understanding of the improvement approach, concepts, methods, and the degree to which positive change and benefits are possible.
2. Active Listening and Communicating Skills (Working With Others) course help everyone improve communications, relations, and productivity.
3. Creating and using effective goal statements and performance measures
4. Yellow Belt (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma (Improvement for Everyone) course to gain the knowledge and skills to perform a individual improvement project.
5. Mini Training and Practice Modules with immediate practice applying the education gain new or refresh skills.
Improvement Project Leader: These courses provide knowledge and skills (for Project leaders, Process owners, & Teams) in each step of the improvement cycle, change management, and project management techniques to effectively lead a team through a successful improvement project.
- Green Belt (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma) aka Improvement Project Leader to lead teams through an improvement project
- Helping Others Embrace Change – Understand, Plan, Communicate
- Process Mapping to clarify roles, responsibilities, use of systems, job aids, and see improvement opportunties
- Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
- Creating standard procedures
- Method to Learn from the Past, Change the Present, Create the Future
- Statistical Analysis basics to gather, visualize, and use data to drive decisions
- Active Listening and Communicating skills (aka Working with Others)
Continual Improvement Champion: In leading improvement projects and the improvement structure there are numerous ADVANCED improvement courses and certifications to create bigger results. These courses apply adult education principles of Tell, Show, Do, Recycle (tell the topic, show you the topic, immediately do/apply the topic, recycle feedback( to confirm knowledge transfer and create immediate benefits.
- Kaizen to rapidly improve processes & engage team ownership
- 5S, Visual Controls to decrease searching; a place for everything and everything in its place.
- Advanced Facilitation to gain skills for effective and efficient convenings
- Performance Measurement to identify, define, visualize, and use measures to guide decisions
- Strategic & Annual Planning to focus resources and budgets on achieving needed outcomes
- Annual Improvement Planning to use ata to identify priority improvement outcomes and projects
- Mistake Proofing to redesign processes and products so that errors cannot occur
- Quick Change - SMED to reduce time and resources consumed in preparation (getting ready)
- Nonconformance Management Process to identify, manage, and eliminate nonconformances
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis to proactively identify possible failures and adjust before the failure can occur
- Flow – Balanced Work – Kanban to increase process speed and quality
- Innovation the process to envision and create transformational change
- Six Sigma Black Belt to use lots of data and statistical analysis to decrease variation
- Total Productive Maintenance are the pillars to improve equipment reliabiility and capacty
- Value Engineering / Design for Excellence to eliminate not valuable process steps and prodoct components
Leader: Gain more knowledge and skills to improve myself and help my team(s) and organization achieve/exceed performance goals. These courses apply adult education principles of Tell, Show, Do, Recycle (tell the topic, show you the topic, immediately do/apply the topic, recycle feedback to confirm knowledge transfer). Getting results is key.
- Leading a High-Performing Culture: Leadership Education
- Our Purpose, defining our Mission, Vision, and Values
- Strategic and Annual Planning to focus resources and budgets on achieving needed outcomes
- Annual Improvement Planning to use ata to identify priority improvement outcomes and projects
- Helping Others Embrace Change – Understand, Plan, Communicate
- Systemwide Focus to evaluate and focus efforts that create systemwide understanding, alignment, and great changes.
- Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
- Active Listening and Communicating skills (aka Working with Others)
Supervisor: Gain more knowledge and skills to improve myself and help maximize the potential of my team and achieve/exceed performance goals.
- Supervisor Skill Development: Leading an Improvement Culture
- Active Listening and Communicating skills (aka Working with Others)
- Team Huddles to bring team performance measures and improvement into daily work
- Creating and using effective goal statements and performance measures
- Helping Others Embrace Change – Understand, Plan, CommunicateHelping others embrace change – understand, plan, and communication
- Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
- Process Mapping to clarify roles, responsibilities, use of systems, job aids, and see improvement opportunties
- Create Standard Procedures
- Method to Learn from the Past, Change the Present, Create the Future
All Courses
Getting results is key!
All training includes education and knowledge transfer. We rely significantly on the adult education principles of TELL, SHOW, DO, RECYCLE (provide feedback). Application, in the classroom and in the real world, are keys to knowledge transfer and results.
