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Leadership Readiness & Alignment Study

This study is conducted when organizations are interested in understanding what their leadership capacity is for leading in a lean organization. The focus of the study is to review all leaders in formal leadership positions and identify their strengths as lean leaders, their opportunities for growth, their fit within the organization and their succession plans. The study can be conducted in two ways:

(1) It can be exclusively focused on assessing readiness and alignment of your formal leaders. At the conclusion of this study you will have a comprehensive understanding of your formal leaders competencies as a lean leader, areas for development and a lean depth chart that will assist your organization in effective succession planning.

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(2) It can be integrated with the Organizational Depth Structure Study allowing the organization to also evaluate the organizational structure against lean principles and assist with taking our layers where there is redundancy or waste. At the conclusion of this study you will have a comprehensive understanding of your leaders competencies and areas for development, a lean depth chart that will assist your organization in effective succession planning and a new organizational structure.

Contact us today to have a leadership readiness & alignment study done in your organization!

Creating a Culture of Improvement Workshops

Our Creating a Culture of Improvement courses are offered both in open enrollment format and for clients to bring them in-house. Contact us to get enrolled today!

Half-Day Workshops:

Building a Culture of Improvement: Everyday Improvement Ideas 400

Everyone's Ideas Count!

This workshop will build your understanding and knowledge of how to effectively build a culture of improvement. Focused on organizational design principles and change management practices you will have the opportunity to hear how other organizations have effectively involved those doing the work to drive out waste and increase quality. In addition, you will have an opportunity to understand your role, regardless of your position, in implementing everyday improvement ideas in your organization.

The Role of Boards in a Lean Management System/Driving Continuous Improvement 400

Board Members must take an active role in building a culture of improvement!

This workshop is for leaders and governors who are interested in understanding the role of boards in supporting the adoption of lean tools or in advancing the implementation of a lean management system. This workshop will provide you with a deeper understanding of how boards should effectively engage in continuous improvement work, their role in defining targets/metrics and how they ensure they are asking the good questions in order to hold the system accountable for results. Finally, the workshop will focus on how boards can assist in creating an environment of innovation that views failure as opportunities.

Leading Self Through Change 400

Change is good until it affects me!

Essential to creating a culture of improvement and adopting lean tools or an entire lean management system is our ability to accept and engage in change. This workshop focuses on helping you to understand your personal reaction to change. Through practical exercises you will reflect on your experience with change and identify one key strategy that you will use as you move through change.

Gemba Walks 400

Daily visual management walls without gemba walks are merely wallpaper!

This Workshop, based on Jim Womack's book, 'Gemba Walks' focuses on the power of leadership presence where the work is done or where humans create value. This workshop will provide you with knowledge of how value stream mapping, daily visual management walls, and a curious mind make gemba walks meaningful.

Respect for People - A Fundamental Lean Principle 400

Respect means listening before talking!

This workshop challenges leaders to understand the true essence of respecting people and how a deep respect for people is at the foundation of the Toyota Production System. Take the time to appreciate what respect for people means in your environment, learn new skills for advancing continuous improvement work in a respectful way and have the opportunity to practice these skills in a safe environment.

Full Day Workshops:

Leadership Workshops

Half-Day Workshops:

Coaching Through Change 400

"I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable."
John Russell

This workshop builds your knowledge of what coaching is and how you can effectively use this skill, in combination with lean tools, in advancing a culture of continuous improvement. You will learn the key components of coaching, practice your coaching skills and receive feedback on your coaching approach as you learn to coach through change with our lean coaching techniques.

Leveraging the Involvement of Others in Building a Continuous Improvement/Lean Culture 400

Releasing the Leader Within Us!

This workshop assists leaders to build knowledge and skills in how to most effectively involve those doing the work in building a culture of continuous improvement. You will learn practical approaches to successfully engaging those who you lead to achieve results while building their capacity to identify and solve problems.

Developing Coalitions for Improvement Work 400

Achieving results through effective networks!

This workshop builds leaders knowledge and skills on how to create effective coalitions. During the interactive workshop you build a draft coalition strategy while learning what the role of coalitions is in adopting and sustaining a lean management system, the benefits of forming coalitions to achieve results and how to successfully engage member within a coalition. In addition, the workshop assists you in defining key coalition elements as well as selecting the appropriate membership to maintain the vitality and ongoing effectiveness of the network.

Full Day Workshops:

Building High Functioning Teams 800

A Single Arrow is Easily Broken but Not 10 in a Bundle
- Japanese Proverb

Building a culture of continuous improvement requires strong cross functional team work. This workshop focuses on the essential components of developing strong teams as well as inspiring them to collectively achieve results. You will learn what you and your team members bring to the team and at the conclusion of the workshop you will have experience in drafting an effective team agreement.

Telling the Story – Effectively Communicating Your Continuous Improvement Story 800

Change happens when heads & hearts are connected!

Storytelling can play a critical role in driving change. Stories/ancedotes appeal not only to our intellect, but also to our emotions – where behavior change is likely to occur. This Workshop assists leaders in building their knowledge and understanding of how to effectively find, build and communicate stories. In addition, leaders will develop a deeper understanding of how this skill can assist them in effectively advancing the lean management system or the adoption of lean tools.

Leading People Through Change 800

Being a change leader requires practice!

This workshop assists leaders to build knowledge and skills that will make them more effective at leading people through change. The worship builds on Kotters work and focuses on developing leaders capacity to identify the needed change, create a shared vision and execute the change with the commitment of the members of the group. You will spend time understanding your primary change leadership styles and how it impacts others as well as identify key take aways that you will use as you lead change in your organization.

My Role as a Lean Leader 800

From Hero to Farmer to Coach!

This workshop is focused on assisting leaders in understanding what is expected of them in advancing a lean management system. The workshop has three interrelated segments that assist leaders in: (1) understanding the behavior's, attributes and skills required in a lean organization, (2) what is expected of leaders in delivering tools and materials, (3) how leaders are expected to ‘show up' on the gemba and (4) how to coach their teams to develop effective problem solving skills.

Achieving Results 800

"A Story is Data with a Soul!"
- Brene Brown

This workshop assists leaders in building their knowledge and skills on how to achieve effectively measure, evaluate and communicate results from lean events in a story that others can understand.

System Transformation – Your Leadership Role 800

Transform your leadership to transform your workplace!

This workshop assists leaders in building knowledge and skills that will make them more effective in leading large-scale transformational change initiatives. The Workshop focuses on building system and strategic thinking skills as well as how to create a compelling vision.

Testimonials & Results

Several years ago, the Minister of Health decided to adopt Lean methodology for health care in Saskatchewan. Jim, as the Board Chair for Saskatoon Regional Health Authority, embraced this move to a system of continuous improvement. He led by example, became trained and proficient in Lean, changed our meetings, transformed the region, and made greater strides in the improvement in healthcare delivery than we had seen in years.

- Randy Donauer, Board Member of Saskatoon Regional Health Authority

As a lean leader what I love the most about Bonnie is not only her belief in a roots up approach but her application of that. I have seen many examples of where lean management talks about customer/client involvement but Bonnie lives it- in her eyes everyone does have a valuable contribution to make. And as a result the quality of the organization goes up, and the costs and waste go down.

- Taren Trew, Administrative Assistant to VP People & Culture at 3sHealth

Teams lead by Bonnie typically accomplish more than teams with double the resources, mostly due to her leadership style, her ability to bring out the best in others, and how she consistently models an optimal balance of results and relationships.

- Brent Pederson, Director of Operations: Saskatchewan & Manitoba at Hay Group Limited

Jim is committed to lean methodology with his strong focus on safety and continuous improvement as tools to transform our health system. His is a natural and insightful provincial leader.

- Richard Anderson, Board Chair at Heartland Health Region

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