Education and Training
Programs
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Lean Education NEW! --- Lean For Frontline Supervisors |
Leadership Development |
Quality Systems Quality Tools for Managing & Planning NEW! --- Office Process Improvement |
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This course reviews waste elimination approaches such as Lean and Six Sigma that utilize employee involvement. Roles for management, staff, union officials, and workers will be discussed. Pitfalls and benefits of cooperative work practices are covered. |
Middle managers have a distinct and critical role in
every organization, much more than a conduit between top management
and workers. Middle managers face unique challenges within an
organization, striving to be effective from the middle outward
without being ‘caught in the middle.’ |
This one-day workshop is focused entirely on the use of quality tools in managing and planning. Quality tools appropriate to assessment, evaluation, facilitation and planning are covered with examples and practice exercises. This workshop complements WINOC's Team Leader and Facilitator soft-skills training with some of the hard-skills and analytical-skills teams need to perform their work efficiently. |
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In this two day workshop at your site, participants develop your organization's business case for Lean, assess your organization's readiness for Lean, conduct selected Standardized Work audits, develop improvement ideas and develop lean Standard Work for supervisors. Along the way they learn VSM, Standard Work, PDCA, Kaisen and other Lean Tools... by doing! |
The focus of this two-day workshop is on people skills needed to survive and thrive in a high-performance organization. Current and prospective first-line supervisors and middle managers will leave this program with an understanding of their personal leadership style, with more effective listening and communication skills, with improved employee motivation and counseling skills and with creative group problem solving facilitation skills. |
In this two day workshop teams apply quality and Lean practices to improve office processes at your site. Using value Stream Mapping teams construct and analyze Current State Maps and develop Future State Maps, leading to development of process improvement implementation plans. |
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The Lean Education Series is a series of six monthly one-day workshops covering the topics of
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This one-day workshop focuses on how to build partnerships and communicate effectively for improved job satisfaction and improved organizational performance. Labor and Management representatives discuss their different missions but common vision and goals in a neutral setting with experienced facilitators. |
This two-day workshop is focused on the soft skills needed to lead and/or facilitate teams. The Team Leader and Facilitator Training Workshop will provide you with insight into the differences between the role of the team leader versus the role of the facilitator and when each is appropriate. In addition, you will learn a step-by-step model which will help your teams solve problems by making consensus decisions in a systematic fashion. |
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This workshop addresses Lean design and innovation using Value Engineering and Value Analysis. Value Engineering (VE) and Value Analysis (VA) are methods of cost control that emphasize achieving the necessary function at the minimum cost. VE is recognized as an effective tool for reducing cost, increasing productivity and improving quality. This workshop uses an effective seven-step methodology, which identifies and eliminates areas of high cost by creating alternatives that perform the required function at a lower cost. |
On one extreme we follow orders that we ourselves would not issue even in our most autocratic moments. On the other extreme we have employee empowerment gone wild as empowered employees flex their empowerment muscles in ways we never intended. Whose decision-making model is that?! In this workshop participants practice a decision-making model based on seven decision or problem attributes: quality requirement, data needs, presence of structure, acceptability by subordinates, trust of superiors, goal congruence and potential for conflict. |
This one-day workshop is designed to facilitate an organization's leadership team to parse their list of improvement opportunities (OFIs) such that the OFIs that are both pervasive and impactful are identified. Those OFIs are then ordered such that improvement strategies emerge along will annual goals that support those strategies. Goal deployment and action planning to achieve goals modeled during this workshop. A one-day prerequisite workshop is also available for those organizations that need to develop their comprehensive list of OFIs. |
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For public programs currently being offered go to the Public Programs page. |
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