Lean Certification - Program Leader

Learn to Lead a Lean Deployment
Curriculum
Schedule
Pricing and Prerequisites
Terms and Conditions

Develop Your Own Lean Leaders

Build Internal Capability to Support Your Lean Deployment and Accelerate Results

Deliver results immediately while you earn a lean certification and graduate with exceptional hands-on experience and knowledge from TBM lean veterans.

A transformational lean business system is built on four equally important components: people, process, plans and performance. Organizations who embrace a lean business system must dedicate time and resources to learning, seek opportunities for continuous improvement and be willing to drive change. People are the key drivers of any lean transformation. Once you’ve made the commitment to become lean, it is critical to identify individuals within your organization to nurture and accelerate your transformation. Lean certification is an important step. By developing internal expertise you reduce your risk of failure, drive cultural change and create best practices that can be shared across the enterprise.

Learn to Lead a Lean Deployment

Candidates complete all coursework from Kaizen Facilitator in addition to learning how to create and manage an effective lean office and how to audit, report and sustain results of a lean program. Includes self-paced online learning and five weeks of hands-on training. Candidates will be mentored by a TBM Lean Master and will graduate with hands-on experience and knowledge in the following critical areas::

  • Knowledge of lean strategies, tools and methods which include the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System including takt, flow, pull and standard operations
  • The skills required to support effective kaizen events and conduct basic training for kaizen teams
  • Participation in a kaizen event on the shop floor-or in a business process at a manufacturing facility
  • Develop a current and future value stream map for a facility or product family
  • How to create, manage, communicate and promote an effective continuous improvement office
  • How to write a project charter, develop scope and objectives for a kaizen event
  • How to align operations metrics with financial performance
  • How to audit, report and sustain results from your lean deployment

Learning

Time Commitment

Description
Essential Lean Learning – Online training and Exam* Self-paced online learning Modules include: Introduction to lean; Waste elimination; Just-in-time principles of takt, flow and pull systems; Quality and productivity improvements through Jidoka; Production Smoothing, Standard Work, Standard Operations; 5S and the visual workplace; Value Chain Mapping, LeanSigma Implementation; and Roles in a lean deployment. Candidates must pass a final exam upon completion off all modules.
Lean Tool Kit Workshop* 5 days Learn how lean tools are applied to transform your organization to deliver improved operational results. Through the use of a factory simulation students will be able to apply what they have learned.
Kaizen Breakthrough Experience 5 days Hands-on participation on a kaizen team at a TBM client site. Participants are divided into teams that are led by a TBM Lean Master. Team members are assigned roles; the event is planned, executed and evaluated.
Kaizen Instructor Training 4 days Train-the-trainer workshop designed to teach participants how to deliver TBM’s one-day lean training, an essential component of facilitating kaizen events. Participants hone public speaking skills and learn how to address the tough questions from individuals that will participate in or be impacted by a Kaizen event.

Creating a

Continuous

Improvement Office

4 days

Learn the strategies, tools and skills required to set up and administer an effective continuous improvement office. Topics include: how to communicate and promote a lean program, write charter statements, align operational metrics with financial objectives, assess your lean progression, form and manage a lean steering committee and share best practices across the organization, (We recommend that Program Leader candidates complete this course before taking Kaizen Instructor Training)
Sustaining Lean Results

5 days

Participants learn to audit, report and sustain kaizen results. Concepts covered include: personality assessment and how to work with different types of people, cultural change and how to deal with resistance, performance measurement, layered audits and problem solving tools.

Mentor,

Homework,

Quizzes, Kaizen

Event report-out

and Final Exam

On-going

Each participant is assigned a TBM Lean Mentor to guide them through the certification process. Homework, quizzes, a kaizen report-out and a final exam are all part of the certification program.

 

*All courses are listed in recommended and candidates MUST complete the online training and exam and Lean Tool Kit before progressing to other modules of Lean Certification.

Schedule

If you would like to speak with someone about this program before registering, please contact Cheryl Groves at 800.438.5535 x817.

Lean Certification - Program Leader starts with the:

Lean Tool Kit Workshop:

North America
  • February 1-5, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • May 3-7, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • August 9-13, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • November 8-12, 2010 in Durham, NC
Asia
  • April 19-23, 2010 in Shanghai, China

The following are the remaining classroom week schedules for this program:

Kaizen Breakthrough Experience:

North America
  • March 1-5, 2010 at Hayward Pool Products in Pomona, CA
Asia
  • TBD, 2010 at Client Site TBD
United Kingdom
  • June 14-18, 2010 at Genzyme in Waterford, Ireland

Kaizen Instructor Training - Business Process:

North America
  • May 18-21, 2010 in Durham, NC

Or

Kaizen Instructor Training - Manufacturing Operations:

North America
  • March 23-26, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • July 13-16, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • October 19-22, 2010 in Durham, NC
Asia
  • May 18-21, 2010 in Shanghai, China
Latin America
  • May 18-21, 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • October 12-15, 2010 in Monterrey, Mexico
United Kingdom
  • March 9-12, 2010 in Derby, UK
  • September 14-18, 2010 in Derby, UK

Creating a Continuous Improvement Office:

North America
  • April 20-23, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • October 5-8, 2010 in Durham, NC
Asia
  • June 22-25, 2010 in Shanghai, China
  • October 19-23, 2010 in Shanghai, China
Latin America
  • October 19-22, 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sustaining Lean Reuslts:

North America
  • January 25-29, 2010 in Durham, NC
  • September 20-24, 2010 in Durham, NC
Asia
  • July 19-23, 2010 in Shanghai, China

Pricing and Prerequisites

Lean Certification - Program Leader costs $12,500* per person.

  • Students must be willing to travel, have access to the Internet and Microsoft® applications including Visio®, PowerPoint® and Excel®. We recommend students have access to a laptop computer to allow them to work on certification objectives during classroom events.
  • TBM clients who have completed portions of the curriculum may qualify for learning credits at the discretion of the program director.
  • TBM will also modify the course and create a customized Lean Certification curriculum for companies that prefer to send a dedicated team of students in a single program.

*No Discounts Apply

Terms and Conditions

You will be invoiced for event fees which are due in full prior to the start of the full curriculum. Event fees include workshop materials, lunch and refreshments. Please see event descriptions for any prerequisite requirements prior to registration.

Cancellation Policy 

Any cancellation must be received in writing. Cancellations received within 15-21 business days of the event will be subject to a 50% cancellation fee. Cancellations received within 0-14 business days of the event will be subject to a 100% cancellation fee.

Transfers and Substitutions 

Substitutions are allowed at any time. Transfers to another date will only be accommodated one time.

TBM is committed to fulfilling the schedule as presented, however TBM reserves the right to cancel any courses where sufficient registration levels have not been met. 

Unconditional Guarantee 

If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this workshop, we will refund 100% of your fee.