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Lean
Master Training Certification Program
What
it is:
40
Intensive, highly interactive Lean workshops
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Building
Lean thinking, business management, and leadership skills one brick-at-a-time
over a 9-month period
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Taught
by qualified instructions with Master’s level education, and extensive
real-world Lean application/implementation experience in the areas of
healthcare, manufacturing, service, and front office.
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There
will be guest speakers and guest lecturers throughout the program, lending a
diverse perspective to topical Lean issues.
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Diverse
class mix - The benefit of “comparing notes” to the way other companies manage
their Lean initiatives and growth strategies
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Team
projects. Group “homework.” Break-out discussions. Group debates. Role
plays. Simulations.
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THREE
benchmarking visits to companies who already enjoy a high-level of Lean
conversion and Lean success --- “seeing Lean in action”
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Technical
development combined with personal and professional growth
What
you’ll get - Benefits:
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In
return for your/their 9-month commitment, you will receive a more confident,
competent manager; a Lean thinking, cost-saving guru; a process improvement
specialist; and a continuous improvement, analytical process expert.
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You
will have a built-in Lean Consultant. (Lean
Consultants range from $800 to $3000 PER DAY!!)
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A
catalyst for change - increasing the potential for ongoing improvement
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Increases
a companies ability to create and sustain positive change
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Gains
the ability to identify and eliminate waste
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The
cost-per-participant is less than most companies pay per year for scrap and
re-work.
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You
won’t have to wait for 9 months to start seeing the bottom-line results that
your participant can bring to your company via major and minor improvements and
supervised
Lean projects.
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Your
participant will DOCUMENT (in a Lean Journal)
cost savings, Lean improvements,
problem solving initiatives, corrective actions, tools and Lean-learning over
time. You will be able to SEE how the participant has more-than-paid-for their
education and they will provide you with “the gift that keeps on giving!”
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The company will also gain the
following benefits from their participants education:
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Opportunities to improve all areas
of the business
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Increased profits and growth from
the improvements
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Continued success due to internal
and external support (rather than single project success)
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A market leader perspective
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More satisfied customers
What
it includes:
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A
spacious and comfortable training facility
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All
Materials for the program
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A
CD containing customizable presentations of all the basic Lean tools
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Continental
breakfast and lunch are provided daily
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Training
and tours (2 out-of-state)
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Featured
guest speakers who are leaders in Lean techniques.
The program encompasses eleven intermixed
modules:
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Foundation
– encompasses Lean definitions and components, barriers to success, and
assessments
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Implementation*
– where and how to start,
organizational structure, Lean Operating System, effective project management,
and the need for measurement
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Cultural
– The need for change, creating commitment and cultural change, and empowering
the workforce
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Back
to Basics – how to successfully
implement 5S along with ways to make it sustainable; Value-Stream-Mapping and
the true meaning behind it; and how to implement, monitor, and sustain any
Kanban or ConWIP pull system
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Recognition
and Rewards*
– explores our personal changing needs, suggestion systems, getting results from
your recognition and reward system, and why rewards don’t always work
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Leadership/Team
Building – covers the
interrelationships with other modules, the leadership challenge, leadership,
teamwork, and team building
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Management
Skills*
– coaching for results and behaviors, managing multiple priorities, and how to
hold results-oriented lean meetings
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Core
Tools Module – covers: the basics of
standardized work, the steps required for quick changeover, effective
problem-solving techniques, and how to facilitate a Kaizen event
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Advanced
Techniques – implementing TPM
effectively, Six Sigma tools you can use, 5 ways of creating cellular flow,
visual workplace for the whole company, Lean Office made simple, and how to
Poka-Yoke everything
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Customer
Focus*
– covers Lean and continuous improvement as is relates to the customer, the role
of marketing in a Lean organization, 5 competitive forces that determine
industry profitability, competitive intelligence and benchmarking, managing
customer satisfaction, measuring customer satisfaction, and Lean’s role in new
product development
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Train-the-Trainer
– covers primer on adult learning, components of a successful presentation,
organizing with A-I-D-A (attention, interest, details, action), effectively
handling questions, and managing difficult participants
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It is recommended
that one or two members of your senior management team attend some of these
sessions at no additional charge. Details to follow at time of sign-up.
Note: The above modules do not necessarily
reflect the ORDER in which classes are taught.
GDC reserves the right to
change the course content and/or order of classes based on needs as we proceed.
Master Training
Certification Program
Nine months /
Forty-two
weeks
- divided into two semesters (that break around Christmas)
- 2 consecutive days
approximately every other week
34 classroom days
3 Off-site benchmarking
visits
2 Simulation Days
1 Final Exam and
Graduation Day
40
TOTAL DAYS (16 in
Semester 1 and 24 in Semester 2)
Quizzes are used to check progress.
Individual reports
are sent back
to client management on progress/status of their participants
-Mid-Term Exam-
-Final Exam- These
3 apply to final grade
-3 Lean Projects-
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