Lean Leadership Training: Lean Supervisors

Lean Leadership Training Summary

Our Lean Leadership training courses covers all aspects of your lean implementation, but from a leadership perspective. This enables each person to focus on their role in your Lean / Six Sigma / TOC improvement projects.  Lean leadership training is based on practical simulations and issues relating to your business, so whilst we have a standard core of subject and content, we are flexible in our approach. The main levels in an organisation are covered, you may have different titles or more management levels but broad definitions are:

Lean Supervisors

May be Supervisors, Group Leaders or Team Leaders – these people are generally at the coal-face and are either providing a service for the main business operations or are the main business operations focusing on their area and the quality, cost and delivery of the service or product out of their area.

Lean Executives (See Executive leadership training)

Applies to Top and Senior Management who have a responsibility for the wider organisation and are generally measured with relation to top-line KPIs. Executive leadership is essential to ensure that your improvement project is successful

Lean Managers (See Management leadership training)

Probably your middle manager level, have functional responsibility for their areas and also provide services and interlink with other business areas.

There will clearly be common elements to any lean implementation for all levels, but also specific roles to be played by executive leadership, management leadership and supervisor leadership – LeanQCD covers both common and specific elements.

Lean Leadership Supervisor Training

Course Details

Lean Implementation Process

Continuous Improvement Cycle

• Creating stability
• Creating flow
• Standardisation
• Level-up

Lean QCD Implementation process

• Process overview – Current state v Ideal state
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• The 8 wastes
• Mini-5S activity
• Balanced workflow
• One piece flow
• Standardisation
• Introduction to visual control
• Introduction to management control

Lean Leadership Supervisor Requirements

• The role of supervisors in lean
• Removing the fear of lean – do more with the same resource
• Team building / development
• What management are doing when they practice genchi genbutsu “Go and see”
• Visual control – how to implement, tracking, exceptions, counter-measures
• Checking the standard
• Supervisor role in management control
• Measurement of results of lean implementation
• Management by team
• Giving and receiving feedback
• The continuous improvement cycle – what to expect next

Outcome

Supervisors understand the expectations of the lean implementation and play a key role in the deployment and checking the results. they become the key to building a culture of continuous improvement.

Cost options

£ 4,500 + VAT for training up to 6 people on your site
Initial 3-day training covering the initial training and then working with your supervisors at the start of your lean implementation. A further 2-3 days mentoring and coaching your supervisors throughout your lean implementation.

If included along with Lean Manager training for your organisation we can quote you a competitive all-inclusive price.

Timing can be flexible to meet your timescales.