Role-Based Training Courses

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.  

1. Green Belt (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma) aka Improvement Project Leader to lead teams through an improvement project
2. Helping Others Embrace Change – Understand, Plan, Communicate
3. Process Mapping to clarify roles, responsibilities, use of systems, job aids, and see improvement opportunties 
4. Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
5. Creating standardized work instructions (aka SOPs) for more calm consistency.
6. Method to Learn from the Past, Change the Present, Create the Future
7. Statistical Analysis basics to gather, visualize, and use data to drive decisions
8. 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.  

1. Kaizen to rapidly improve processes & engage team ownership
2. 5S, Visual Controls to decrease searching and movement; a place for everything and everything in its place.
3. Advanced Facilitation to gain skills for effective and efficient convenings
4. Performance Measurement to identify, define, visualize, and use measures to guide decisions
5. Strategic & Annual Planning to focus resources and budgets on achieving needed outcomes
6. Annual Improvement Planning to use data to identify priority improvement outcomes and projects
7. Mistake Proofing (aka Poka Yoka) to redesign processes and products so that human error cannot occur
8. Failure Mode Effect Analysis to proactively identify possible failures and adjust before the failure can occur
9. Quick Change - SMED to reduce time and resources consumed in preparation (getting ready)
10. Nonconformance Management Process to identify, manage, and eliminate nonconformances
11. Flow – Balanced Work – Kanban to increase process speed and quality
12. Innovation process to envision and create transformational change
13. Six Sigma Black Belt to use lots of data and statistical analysis to decrease variation
14. Total Productive Maintenance are the pillars to improve equipment reliabiility and capacty
15. 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 the 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.  

1. Leading a High-Performing Culture: Leadership Education 
2. Our Purpose: defining our Mission, Vision, and Values
3. Systemwide Focus to evaluate and focus efforts that create systemwide understanding, alignment, and great changes
4. Strategic and Annual Planning to focus resources and budgets on achieving needed outcomes
5. Annual Improvement Planning: use data to identify priority improvement outcomes, projects, and balanced resources
6. Helping Others Embrace Change:  Understand, Plan, Communicate
7. Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
8. 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.  

1. Supervisor Skill Development: Leading an Improvement Culture
2. Active Listening and Communicating skills (aka Working with Others) 
3. Team Huddles to bring team performance measures and improvement into daily work
4. Creating and using effective goal statements and performance measures
5. Helping Others Embrace Change: Understand, Plan, Communicate 
6. Problem Solving to get to the root of the problem along with more impactful solutions
7. Process Mapping to clarify roles, responsibilities, use of systems, job aids, and see improvement opportunties
8. Create Standardized Work Instructions (aka SOPs) to create a calm consistency
9. Method to Learn from the Past, Change the Present, Create the Future