Management Skills: The Wisdom Of People & The Power Of Lean

Apply Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement & the Toyota Production System to People Interactions

What you'll learn
Be able to use Lean Thinking to enhance people interactions
Expand "respect for people" way beyond current boundaries
Understand that people interactions, such as problem solving, can be improved with Lean Thinking tools
Use the concept of "standard work" for most people tools
Take continuous improvement past just process improvement
Requirements
An interest in helping employees achieve greater success and work satisfaction.
Some experience using Lean Thinking tools and concepts.
Description
Management Skills: The Wisdom of People & the Power of LeanThis course is first and foremost about enabling people to flourish.In business, employees are often the largest expense and the most problematic to manage. And, in business, improving processes is often the first effort to reduce costs and increase capacity. Why not use Lean Thinking to improve how employees work together to reduce costs and increase capacity (and employee satisfaction)?What if meetings could be conducted in half the time? What if managers could be better managers? What if every memo made total sense? The tools and concepts of Lean Thinking, applied to how people interact, could achieve these outcomes. This is a new way of utilizing Lean Thinking.This course applies the best of Lean and the best of people to achieve an emotionally engaging, highly productive workplace. One strength of Lean on the people side is the rule that no employee does a job they are not fully prepared to do. This course goes beyond job descriptions to enhance the people elements of the workplace.The strength of Lean Thinking is to create value and continue improving how that value is created. Taking this course will enable you to create value whenever people get together, growing productivity, improving your bottom line, and increasing job satisfaction.By the end of this course, you will be able to apply Lean tools, such as standard work and mistake-proofing to actual human beings and have them say, "Thank you." Everyone wins. Look at the preview to get a better understanding of the material. This is a very special application of the power of Lean Thinking.Rock Solid Business Soft SkillsThis set of courses is ideal if you want to significantly improve your soft skills as a leader, manager or employee. Each course presents a specific topic; you’ll dive deeply into the content and emerge with newly acquired ideas and rock solid soft skills. Many of the ideas and skills are unique to this set of courses.Business is a balancing act of controlling and enabling others. As a leader/manager, you must be in charge, but also encourage the best from every worker. As you know, this isn’t easy. Make a mistake or two and everyone suffers. Rock solid skills have clear steps, easily followed and measured. And if you aspire to leadership, these skills will propel you upward.Bob's courses follow that old saying, "if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." Bob teaches both skills and concepts. If you want both training and an education, this is the place, tools and ideas. Each course provides ideas to explore and skills to try out. You choose the topic and in about three hours or less, you’ll acquire rock solid soft skills enabling you to support and inspire your employees.This set of Business Management courses is ideal for these topics: Entrepreneurship, Communication Skills, Management Skills, Business Fundamentals, Leadership Skills, Manager Training, Conflict Management, and Influence.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to a New Way of Understanding the Usefullness of Lean Thinking

Lecture 2 Current State

Lecture 3 The Concept

Lecture 4 The Leap

Section 2: Brief History of Industrial Science

Lecture 5 Introduction to How Experts Can Cause Significant Problems

Lecture 6 The Industrial Science Pioneers

Lecture 7 Industrial & Organizational Psychology

Section 3: Brief History of Lean Thinking

Lecture 8 Introduction to How Lean Thinking Grew into Lean Thinking for People

Lecture 9 The Toyota Production System

Lecture 10 Coming to America

Lecture 11 Spreading Everywhere

Lecture 12 Lean Thinking 4.0

Lecture 13 Lean & People Lessons

Section 4: Balanced Lean Thinking

Lecture 14 Introduction to How Lean Thinking Can Expand into Lean for People

Lecture 15 Balanced Lean (and Six Sigma)

Lecture 16 Improvement Equals Questioning

Section 5: 7 Wastes and 7 Assets

Lecture 17 Introduction to a Deeper Understanding of Balanced Lean

Lecture 18 7 Wastes Plus More

Lecture 19 7 Assets

Section 6: Lean Tools & Concepts Humanized

Lecture 20 Introduction

Lecture 21 Capacity

Lecture 22 Value Stream & Continuous Flow

Lecture 23 Kanban/Andon

Lecture 24 Root Cause Analysis

Lecture 25 Visual Control

Lecture 26 Kaizen

Lecture 27 Standard Work

Lecture 28 (Hoshin Kanri) Company Alignment

Section 7: People Tools

Lecture 29 Introduction to Using People Tools in Lean Ways

Lecture 30 Magic of Mistake-Proofing

Lecture 31 Team Building

Lecture 32 Appreciative Inquiry

Lecture 33 Harnessing the Speed of Thought

Lecture 34 Covey Delegation Model

Lecture 35 Bob's Feedback System

Section 8: Implementing Lean for People

Lecture 36 Introduction to How to Develop Lean for People Where You Work

Lecture 37 The Classic Error and How to Avoid It

Lecture 38 Issue

Lecture 39 Goal

Lecture 40 Hurdles and Concerns

Lecture 41 Possible Solutions

Lecture 42 Choose Best Solution

Section 9: Other Issues

Lecture 43 Introduction to Some of the Hurdles You May Face

Lecture 44 Different Points-of-View

Lecture 45 People First, Process Second

Lecture 46 Time

Lecture 47 Business-Like Soft Skills

Lecture 48 Structure Not Stricture

Lecture 49 Don't Count on Anything

Section 10: Ideal Future State

Lecture 50 Introduction to Significant Future Concepts and Issues

Lecture 51 Continuous Improvement

Lecture 52 Perfection

Section 11: Next Steps

Lecture 53 Introduction to How to Further Develop Lean for People

Lecture 54 Asking Questions

Lecture 55 Create Your Own Guidebook

Lecture 56 Remember!

Lecture 57 Thank You

Perfect for managers and leaders seeking greater efficiency beyond working harder and smarter,People who want to get the work done easier, faster and with better quality.,Employers who want their people to end the day satisfied.,Employers seeking better ways to enhance employee impact.