Leadership Workshop for Lean Six
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Objectives
Provide pragmatic principles, skills, and approaches for
leading large-scale improvement efforts that yield fast,
dramatic, and sustainable results
Audiences
There are several groups of people who would find value
in this on-site workshop:
| Audiences |
who are… |
| Executives |
considering launching,
or have already launched a large-scale improvement initiative
like Lean or Six Sigma |
| Directors of Quality and
Six Sigma |
planning and monitoring
progress of a large-scale improvement initiative |
| Champions and Sponsors |
charged with supporting
Black Belts and teams to achieve extraordinary results |
| Organization development
specialists |
helping design high-performance
team structures and providing critical training and
coaching support for leaders in transition |
| Master Black Belts and
Black Belts |
spearheading technical
improvement efforts and seeking to instill process and
results ownership with improvement teams |
| Change agents at all levels of the
organization |
seeking to change the mindsets and
behaviors of peers and direct reports to foster flawless
execution and continuous improvement. |
What you’ll learn
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Opportunities and problems at critical
points during the implementation and high-leverage leadership
actions to address them
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How to ensure your large-scale improvement
initiative generates quick results and enthusiasm
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6 proven, reliable approaches to managing
culture
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Counterintuitive actions at each stage
of the initiative that can yield extraordinary results
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4 leadership “power tools”
that will increase the likelihood of dramatic, sustainable
success
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The importance of “executive-guided
grass-roots commitment” and how to design for it
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Tips for sequencing the disciplines of
Lean, Six Sigma, and High-Performance Organizations
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Templates for conflict management and
influencing other
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7 ways to move from a command-and-control
(both overt and subtle) style to an “analyze-and-energize”
style of leadership that fosters improvement
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How to monitor, and control improvement
activities using a model that incorporates “hard”
and “soft” aspects of performance improvement
Duration
Option 1 – One session that spans two days
Option 2 – Two sessions of one day each,
spread over two months
Customization options
Upon a client’s request, we will tailor the course
to meet specific client objectives and challenges. Typical
options include delving deeper into a particular initiative
stage that an organization is in, incorporating new strategic
direction into the content, and loading the course with
cases that are drawn from actual client organizational situations.
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