Mini Training and Practice Modules

Pam Vecellio • September 14, 2023

Mini Training and Practice Modules

Training, with immediate practice applying the education can be an effective way to learn and gain new or refresh skills. These 2-hour education and practice modules, listed below, are available to help you gain more knowledge and skills and continually improve performance. Contact us to explore what training and practice modules best help you close gaps.


The Goal is TO: Expand and reinforce improvement training knowledge, skills, materials, and impact. 
Team Benefits: Accelerate & improve performance of your team. Achieve goals faster, easier, and with better results. Continual return on your training investment. Tackle bigger problems with confidence.

Organization Benefits: Better focus. More energy, excitement, and activities to continually improve. Increase use of creativity and skills of team members. Have some fun that leads to pride of accomplishment. Solve problems faster, easier, and with better results.

Personal Benefits: Professional skill development. More knowledge, skills, & confidence that can be applied over & over. Lead improvement faster, easier, and with better quality. Grow your capacity, performance improvement confidence, and impact.

CONDITIONS: (What requirements or limitations exist?)

STANDARDS: (How will you measure success?)

  • Benefit to you on 1-9 scale                               >7 average (greatly benefited)
  •  Increase in knowledge (pre-post survey)   >25% knowledge increase

 

What You Get: Live training, application coaching, materials (training slides, activities, templates, and examples) are provided for your internal use.


PEOPLE: Education & Practice Session Options

1.   Working-With-Others Communication Skills

Understand and immediately begin using 4 active listening and communication techniques (verbal and written) to create a more positive working relationship with others, improve problem solving, and increased productivity through better understanding of each other. Also part of Yellow Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.


2. Leading team huddles

Learn about team huddles to bring team performance measures and improvement into daily work. Appreciate the benefits huddles can bring. Learn how huddles are conducted and participate in a team huddle. Also part of Green Belt and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.


3. Helping others Embrace Change – Stakeholder Analysis

Develop additional knowledge and skills in helping others accept, manage, and embrace changes. Understand and practice using a stakeholder analysis to evaluate each stakeholder’s change influence and acceptance to develop actions to help stakeholder embrace the change. Also part of Green Belt and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.

 

4.  Helping others Embrace Change – Communication Planning

Develop additional knowledge and skills in helping others accept, manage, and embrace changes. Understand and practice using a communication plan to identify and manage communications regarding an upcoming or in-progress change. Also part of Green Belt and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.


5. Helping others Embrace Change – Writing Effective Communications

Develop additional knowledge and skills in helping others accept, manage, and embrace changes. Understand and practice using a technique to create communications that effectively share information that is clear, concise, answers questions, and invokes desired results and actions. Also part of Green Belt and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.

 

6. Addressing Problematic Behaviors

Develop additional knowledge and skills and techniques to identify and resolve resistance and problematic behaviors. Practice techniques to mitigate these behaviors will building better relations. Also part of Green Belt and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.


7. Effective & Efficient Decision Making

Understand and learn the impacts of using the decision making process and 4 decision-making types. Practice using the process in different scenarios to build skills in selecting the decision-making type and making the best decisions! Also part of Leading an Improvement Culture, and Supervisor Skill Development trainings.


FOUNDATIONAL IMPROVEMENT CONCEPTS AND METHODS: Education & Practice Session Options


8.   Getting Focused with a Good Goal Statement

Understand when, where, and how to set a goal. Understand how to write a good goal statement, all components. Practice; give & receive feedback on goal statements. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and all advanced improvement trainings.


9.  Process Performance Measures

Understand how to identify and select measures. Understand what is needed to define a measure and why it is important. Understand how to communicate and use measures to improve performance. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


10. Value and Waste – Helping Others See It and What to Do with It

Understand value and forms of waste. Understand where and how to identify value and waste. Practice seeing it! Identify actions to begin decreasing waste and increasing value. Also part of White Belt, Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


11. Value/Waste Analysis

Understand how to evaluate process value and waste. How to analyze value/waste % of time and quality. Practice identifying where to begin improving. How to quantify the improvement impact. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


12. So many issues and wastes AND so many different improvement methods and techniques. Where do I begin?

Understand the potential and applicability of improvement methods. Learn how to select and target the best improvement method for the opportunity to most effectively and efficiently solve different problems.


 13. Process Mapping – Value Stream Mapping to see and focus on the overall process

Understand what, where, and why of value stream mapping so teams/departments/divisions/organizations can focus on the priority improvement areas. Understand and practice creating a value stream map. Also part of Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


14.  Process Mapping – Sub Process Mapping to understand the detailed process

Understand what, where, and why of sub-process mapping so insights can be gained into improvement opportunities and enable standardized work. Understand and practice creating a process map and using the map to improve roles, responsibilities, decisions, handoffs, and performance. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Creating standard procedures, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.

 

15. Problem Solving Overview

Gain a refresher and practice the 5-steps of problem solving including what, when, and how of problem solving; how to use and prioritize data and information to understand the problem; how to perform a 5 Whys; and techniques to identify and prioritize solutions that prevent problems from recurring. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Leading an Improvement Culture, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


16. Creating Standardized Work Procedures (aka standard operating procedures)

Understand and practice the techniques (process maps, standard operatring procedures, implementation steps) to document a current, best known work process for members to follow in a standardized & consistent manner. Also part of Green Belt, Creating standard procedures, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.

 

17. Implementing Improvements so They Stick

Understand and practice the purposeful and practical 5 processes to fully implement improvements so that the change sticks. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Creating standard procedures, Supervisor Skill Development, and advanced improvement trainings.


18. Learn from the past, change the present, create the future!

Understand and practice the 4-Step lessons learned method of analyzing performance to identify and leverage gained learnings. Identify data-based reasons for performance (both good and bad). Extract learnings. Practice creating proactive and preventative actions to lock in the good and prevent repeating undesirable outcomes. Also part of Yellow Belt, Green Belt, Creating standard procedures, Supervisor Skill Development, Strategic & Annual Planning, and advanced improvement trainings.


19. Strategic & Annual Planning Process Overview

Understand the process and use of data to create a 3-5-year strategic plan. Understand the process to create an Annual plan. Understand how to cascade plans throughout the organization, team, and individuals to improve priorities, alignment, and results. More indepth @ full training / facilitation.


USING DATA: Education & Practice Session Options


20. Assessing your Organization’s culture

Understand what and why of creating an organization culture of improvement using a self-assessment test. Begin evaluating the 6 cultural elements. Understand how and where to utilize the assessment results to purposely build the desired culture. Also part of Leading in an Improvement Culture, and Strategic & Annual Planning.

 

21. What are our Customers saying and what do we do about it? 

Understand where and how to obtain customer data and information. Understand and practice how to analyze data using the Quality Function Deployment technique to draw conclusions and priority areas of improvement. Also part of Leading in an Improvement Culture, Strategic & Annual Planning, and advanced improvement trainings.

 

22. What are your Employees saying and what do we do about? 

Understand where and how to obtain employee data and information. Understand and practice evaluation techniques to draw conclusions and priority areas of improvement. Also part of Supervisor Skill Development, and Strategic & Annual Planning.


23. Basic Statistics - Two 2-hour sessions

Understand statistic concepts and terminology. How and where to gather data. Gain the templates to represent data and practice evaluations to draw conclusions. Also part of Green Belt, and advanced improvement trainings.


24. Is this Project Worth Our Time?

Understand and practice how to evaluate a project or upcoming change’s Return on Investment. Use the template to practice identifying costs, benefits, and decisions. Also part of Green Belt, Strategic & Annual Planning, and advanced improvement trainings.