» certified Lean Management Training — Course Overview
This course includes a free copy of the bestselling book “Lean Thinking: Banish Waste And Create Wealth In Your Corporation” by Womack & Jones.
Lean Management has been a total revolution in the automotive industry and since then sparked widely across several other industries and branches. Many however, have no real idea what Lean actually means, what it is or what makes the lean methodology successful. Others have heard about it, but have no real experience.
This lean training is designed to facilitate the meaning of Lean and its principles, deliver practical experience and examples and to present the most common tools used in lean. Trainings and interventions will activate you and guide you to the change process.
The lean training is held and run by former Porsche management consultants, who are experts in successful lean transformations. Our training features practical tools and templates, derived directly from the management consulting business. Interventions, practical examples and war-stories round off the training and are all contextual embedded. The lean training is furthermore enriched by your discussions and inputs, which will lead to a common understanding and broader learning. Our especially developed Steinbeis Consulting Center Intercultural Academy-Simulation will finally reinforce your newly acquired knowledge.
Basis for our simulation is a production environment as it can be found in several places around the world. As the game continues, you will experience optimizations by the introduction of lean principles. This will enable you to touch, feel and see the direct effects of your actions. In opposite to many other lean simulations, we have put a great effort in depicting complexity in the simulated products. That way you will be able to recognize that lean is not purely designed for standardized production environments (like the automotive industry), but can easily be transferred to complex products and (apparently) little standardized, unpredictable business areas like administrative functions.
We will present to you in a foray how such a transfer of lean management to the administrative area can be mastered. Additionally you will learn how coaching and targeted, pyramidal communication will guide you and your employees through a bottom-up oriented lean transformation.
Your qualification ends with a certificate as International Lean Coach & Facilitator (SHB) issued by the Steinbeis University Berlin
» certified Lean Management Training — Course Curriculum
Core elements of a lean enterprise
- A “lean” company – what does that mean?
- “what is in it for me” – Reasons for implementing lean
- Cornerstones of an international lean transformation
- A day in the life of a global lean transformation
Leadership and communication
- Dealing with pitfalls and false expectations
- Structuring of content and targeted communication in international environments
- Feedback, coaching and influencing in multinational environments
- How to run an international lean workshop
Basic phases of a lean project
- Initialization: global Scoping, Team and project set-up, communication and cross-border Change Management
- Analysis: diagnosis of the organization, KPI, leadership and savings estimate
- Design: translation of identified field of actions into future possibilities
- Planning: transfer of design into execution and work streams
Execution and sustainability
- Implementation: cross-border stabilization, optimization and measuring of progress
- Review: Improvement, coaching and long-term embedding into the new organization
- Common lean tools in practice
Lean in practice
- Lean in administrative areas
- Transfer and reinforcement: Steinbeis Consulting Center Intercultural Academy Lean Simulation
For obtaining the Certificate from Steinbeis University Berlin: Practical transfer, self study & university certificaton
- Project Work: Application of course content in your individual environment
- Compilation of a written report, reflecting on your learnings and experience, until 6 weeks after the training course
» Course objectives
In this 5‑day hands-on certified Lean Management training you will familiarize yourself with:
- The use and necessity of a lean transformation
- Core elements of a lean company
- Lean as philosophy and the objectives of lean production
- Perspectives of a lean transformation
- The different kinds of waste
- The 4 lean principles
- Common tools used in a lean implementation and for eliminating waste
- How lean can be applied in administrative functions
- How a lean projects is set up and run
- The application of tools and templates used in Management Consulting
- Targeted communication
- Benefit from the exchange with other participants
- The use of feedback, shadowing, coaching and training
- How to deal with pitfalls and false expectations
- Practical transfer and application: The Steinbeis Consulting Center Intercultural Academy Lean Simulation
- How to design and run lean workshops
- Basic principles of project management
» Key Learnings
The objective of the Lean training is to enable you by a combination of hands-on-experience and theory to:
- understand what Lean actually means and what makes it so successful in real life
- identify waste and to know how to implement counter measures
- transfer your newly acquired knowledge to your business functions
- implement lean standards even in areas with high complexity
- apply the common lean tools tailored to your needs
- know how targeted communication and coaching can support a bottom-up lean project
- apply a professional consulting firm approach to lean management
- run a lean project
» Who should attend the certified Lean Management Training
- Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
- Executives, Supervisors, Team Leaders
- Project managers & Change Managers
- First line managers, operators, administrative staff
- Professionals and freelancers
- Employees and project managers who have to implement lean principles and found themselves confronted with lean for the first time
- People with little or no knowledge of lean
- Those who have heard about lean but have not gained further experience
- Everyone interested in lean management
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