Training

Role-Based Training Courses

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Everyone: In a high-performing organization, everyone is engaged in doing their work and helping to improve it every day and everywhere. These courses provide a basic understanding of continuous improvement and skill development including: value and waste detection, goal setting, performance measurement, simple problem solving, and working well as a team.

  • Introduction to Improvement: Seeing the Possible course provides a basic understanding of the continual improvement approach, concepts, methods used, and the degree to which positive change and benefits are possible. White Belt (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma) certification can be achieved.
  • “Working With Others – Active Communications” course helps everyone improve communications and working relationships.
  • “Continuous Improvement for Everyone” course provides the knowledge and skills to perform a personal improvement project. This course can lead to Continuous Improvement (Quality, Lean, Six Sigma) Yellow Belt certification can be achieved.

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Improvement Project Leader: These courses provide knowledge and skills (for Project leaders and Process owners) in each step of the improvement cycle, change management,
and project management techniques to effectively lead a team through a successful improvement project. Bring a project to training and receive one-on-one coaching during and after the training. This can lead to Green belt certifiation. Training modules are also available as stand-alone courses. 

  1. Improvement Project Leader (Lean six sigma Green Belt)
  2. Helping Others Embrace Change – Understand, Plan, Communicate
  3. Learn from the Past, Change the Present, Create the Future
  4. Process Mapping
  5. Problem Solving 
  6. Standardize and Implement Work Processes
  7. Statistical Analysis basics
  8. Working with Others – Active Communication

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Continual Improvement Champion: If your role includes leading improvement projects and the improvement structure there are numerous ADVANCED improvement courses and certifications to create bigger results. These courses apply adult education principles of Tell, Show, Do, Recycle (tell the topic, show you the topic, immediately do/apply the topic, recycle feedback to confirm knowledge transfer). Upon completion of a method, certification is available.

  1. 5S, Visual Controls
  2. Advanced Facilitation
  3. Annual Improvement Planning
  4. Failure Mode Effect Analysis
  5. Flow – Balanced Work – Kanban
  6. Innovation
  7. Kaizen
  8. Six Sigma Black Belt
  9. Strategic & Annual Planning
  10. Total Productive Maintenance
  11. Value Engineering / Design for Excellence
  12. Mistake Proofing
  13. Quick Change - SMED

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Leader: Gain more knowledge and skills to improve yourself and help your team and organization achieve/exceed performance goals. Getting results is key. These courses apply adult education principles of Tell, Show, Do, Recycle (tell the topic, show you the topic, immediately do/apply the topic, recycle feedback to confirm knowledge transfer).

Leader certification can be achieved. Training modules are also available as stand-alone courses. 

  1. Leadership Education: Leading a High-Performing Culture
  2. Annual Improvement Planning
  3. Helping others embrace change – understand, plan, and communication
  4. Systemwide Focus
  5. Problem Solving – getting to the root of problems
  6. Working with others – active communication 
  7. Your Purpose – Mission, Vision, and Values
  8. Strategic and Annual Planning

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Supervisor: Gain more knowledge and skills to improve yourself and help maximize the potential of your team and achieve/exceed performance goals. Supervisor certification can be achieved. Course modules are also available as stand-alone courses.

  1. Supervisor Education: Leading an Improvement Culture
  2. Create Standard Procedures
  3. Engage team members in huddles
  4. Helping others embrace change – understand, plan, and communication 
  5. Learn from the past, Change the present, Create the future
  6. Problem Solving – getting to the root of problems
  7. Working with others – active communication
  8. Process Mapping
  9. Effective goals and performance measures

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Getting results is key!
All training includes education and knowledge transfer. We rely significantly on the adult education principles of TELL, SHOW, DO, RECYCLE (provide feedback). Application, in the classroom and in the real world, are keys to knowledge transfer and results. 

Identify, select, define, visualize, and use performance measures.

Performance Measurement

By Pam Vecellio • June 3, 2024
Effective performance measures can help individuals, teams, and leaders gain further insights to solve problems, guide actions to achieve more, and make better decisions. Performance measures that are interlocked provide alignment and focus for all program & division members, see image.
CREATE STANDARD PROCEDURES: Learn the process, templates, and immediately begin

Create Standard Procedures: Learn the process, templates, and immediately begin

By Pam Vecellio • May 14, 2021
Processes with lots of variation and poor performance need standard work instructions. Creating the standards sets expectations and creates a calm consistency. In these working sessions you will learn how to create and document standard procedures to gain some immediate productivity. Teams have gained up to 20% productivity/capacity!
Learning from experiences

Learn From the Past Change the Present Create the Future!

By Chris Bujak • May 12, 2021
History repeats itself. WHY? Why do we experience the same situation or problem over again? Why are we not learning from mistakes? There is a better way! At the conclusion of an experience, event, project, or simply a meeting follow this 4-Step lessons learned method to analyze performance data, identify data-based reasons for performance (both good and bad), extract learnings, and create actions. Leverage the experiences and learning to create actions and accountability.
Flow - Balanced Work - and Kanbans

Flow - Balanced Work - and Kanbans

By Chris Bujak • May 3, 2021
Accelerate the speed and improve the quality a product or process by eliminating wait times, queue times, and other delays. Significant process improvement can be achieved with the application of 1. Flow one unit at a time (or minimum batch size), at a formulated and balanced rate; 2. Kanbans, and 3. visual controls to pull products or information.
Statistical Analysis Basics

Statistical Analysis Basics

By Pam Vecellio • May 3, 2021
Develop knowledge and skills to effectively and efficiently evaluate data to better understand a problem. This course teaches the statistical analysis basics including the process, analysis charts, and templates.
Six Sigma Black Belt

Six Sigma (Black Belt)

By Chris Bujak • May 3, 2021
Develop Black Belt knowledge and skills to effectively and efficiently lead teams through the six sigma method. Learn and apply detailed statistical analysis to decrease process defects and variation.
Mission Vision Values with Continual Impact

Your Purpose - Mission, Vision, & Values

By Pam Vecellio • April 30, 2021
What is your team or organization's purpose? What do we all seek to create? Why are we here? What do we believe? This training / working sessions help you create or update your Mission, Vision, and Values. MISSION: The organization’s purpose; what does the organization do and why does it exist. VISION: A long term view (10-20 year) or “snapshot” of the future that the organization wants to create. VALUES: The principles of conduct people abide by as they pursue the organization’s purpose.
Quick Change, SMED

Quick Change - SMED

By Chris Bujak • April 30, 2021
Quick Change / SMED improvements reduce the waste of getting ready to do work. Reductions in changeover times of equipment or processes create immediate and significant benefits in labor productivity, cycle time and inventory. The SMED approach assesses each task of a changeover process to distinguish what can be done externally to the process of changeover and what cannot. The entire work process is then redesigned to eliminate tasks, move external ones out of the changeover process and streamline all remaining activities.
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