Kaizen Method & Skills

Chris Bujak • April 23, 2021
Kaizen continuous improvement process

Tired of working 6 months, 9 months, a year to see the benefits of solving a work process problem? This Kaizen education provides the information-based problem solving process to engage and energize teams in creating big improvements within one week. Yes, all steps of the improvement cycle in 1 week! Stop waiting for change and needed results. 

Goal of Kaizen:

To gain the knowledge, confidence, and job aids to facilitate a Kaizen event effectively and efficiently in a high priority process area. Understand and use ~40 improvement and change templates and techniques. 

Benefits:

  • A Kaizen event has created a minimum of $50,000 of benefit.
  • Speed to implemented changes and benefits. Teams complete all steps of the improvement cycle, typically in 1 week.
  • High team engagement, pride, ownership. Energy and excitement to create measurable improvements.
  • Immediate return on your learning investment. Results are improved at a rate greater than in the past.
  • Access to continue using the Kaizen skills, process, and ~ 40 improvement, change, and project management job aids and techniques to continue leading rapid process improvements.
  • Kaizen skills to lead more improvement projects.
Kaizen benefits

Agenda: 

Training: 20 hours of education and application. Participants bring a process to class on which to focus and practice

  1. Kaizen event process overview - what and why.
  2. Selecting and confirming priority processes for the 1st Kaizen event(s).
  3. Preparing and engaging the team.
  4. Performing the Kaizen event
  5. Understanding the current process (goal, target, data, and process maps). 
  6. Problem solving: Identify priority wastes and issues, determine the root causes of problems, identify priority solutions, develop & test solutions. 
  7. Preparing for implementation (process ownership, new process map, standardized work procedures (SOPs), training materials, performance measures, and a team huddle to enable continual improvement. 
  8. Close out, Celebration, Recognition! Coaching, facilitating, and assisting in effective and efficient implementation. Measuring progress and performance. 


Application and Coaching: 4-5 days of on-site event co-lead. One-on-one coaching until results are achieved.

Certification: Participation in this course and completion of 1 project = Continuous Improvement Kaizen Black Belt CERTIFICATION.