Lean Cultural Transformation
4 hours or 8 hours (workshop)
Lean Conversion is very much about the human element and how
employees contribute to your company. A lean culture works to
harness the complete brainpower of the workforce to build a
continuous improvement process. Experts estimate that 70 percent
of becoming a lean enterprise is culture-related. Without
employee support, you can’t make many, if any, changes in your
organization. Even if you aren’t planning to implement lean
manufacturing, making any sustainable changes can be an uphill
battle without the right company culture.
Identifying problems in your business is easier than trying
to fix them. You might have high employee turnover, caused in
part by low morale. You’ve tried to fix these problems, but
improvement projects go nowhere. Culture greatly influences many
facets of daily productivity and improvement. The way employees
work, their attitudes toward work and change, their
relationships with each other and management, and the way change
is introduced, embraced, and tackled is defined by your culture.
All of which contribute greatly to your company’s health.
Course Description:
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce all employees to the
methods and techniques that manage cultural change. This course
will address the impact that implementing Lean practices can
have on people in the workplace and outlines methods you can use
to establish a positive culture. These methods are used to
eliminate cultural waste in the workforce and better align
material, information, procedures, and process flow.
Participants in the Lean Culture workshop will learn specific
methods to develop leadership and employee involvement, along
with techniques used to manage and preserve the gains created by
Lean Manufacturing. Changing the way your business runs is more
than just moving machines — it means working with people too.
Learning Objectives:
Instilling a lean culture in your company will help you:
- Gain an understanding of some of the factors that lead to
cultural change;
- Understand the desires and expectations of the workforce you
interact with;
- Be aware of what people do and why they do it;
- Identify and eliminate non-value-added practices;
- Understand the different mental models that the workforce
operates under and amend your style or method accordingly; and
- Learn how to adopt a culture that reduces or removes delays,
stoppages, or rework in the activities performed by others.
Who Should Attend:
This course is recommend for all personnel within your
organization as change cannot be successful without an
understanding by the majority.
Prerequisites:
- Lean Conversion Overview
- Value Stream Mapping
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