Lean Essentials
Lean Essentials online training
Lean Essentials online training - Lean Business Training Consultants
Lean Essentials is our foundation programme. It is suitable for people at all levels of your organisation, from the shop floor to senior management. Lean Essentials equips people with the Lean tools needed for continuous improvement projects. As well as the training, participants will take part in our own experiential simulation game and we assign an expert Lean Mentor on a one-to-one basis to enable your employees to fully implement the practical application of Lean to your own business.
Our LeanEssentials training programme is equivalent to certification in a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Previous participants have acknowledged that this programme delivered direct savings that was valued at several times the actual cost of the training.
This programme can be delivered online or in person. It is run over 8 weeks consisting of:
- Pre-course orientation,
- 2 half day online or one full day classroom session delivered as a business simulation learning event,
- Followed by 5 expert mentor 1-1 sessions,
- Minimum of 10 people required for this programme.
Increase Employee Morale throughout your Company
Improve communication and minimise conflicts
Free up people to do more strategic and proactive work
Create a More Focused and Profitable Business
“I really enjoyed the course. I found the mentor sessions really useful as they challenged me to think about the impact of my project in a totally different but more powerful way.”
“I really enjoyed the programme, especially the 1:1 mentoring which allowed me to take a reasonably complex concept and whittle it down to two concise process improvements that should improve business practice.”
Frequently Asked Questions
- Onboarding Session
- Business Simulation
- Kaizen
- DMAIC or 8 Step Problem-Solving
- Countermeasures
- Process Mapping
- Takt Time
- Ten Lean business wastes
- Standard Work
- Construct a problem statement to clearly outline the business challenge
- Document the Voice of the Customer
- Understand a business dashboard
- The DMAIC or 8-step process improvement methodology
- Process mapping
- Use TAKT time to identify process bottlenecks
- Run a Kaizen event and identify countermeasures
- Use an Impact/Ease chart to prioritise ideas
- Understand the 10 Lean business wastes
- The application of standard work
Lean Essentials online training is suitable for any participant in any organisational role. There are no qualification perquisites, however when the training is delivered remotely online, basic PC skills (e.g., Accessing Virtual Meetings) will be required to participate in the training.
Participants conclude their training and mentoring with a presentation of an improvement to a business process to their sponsoring company’s management. This achievement is recognised through the sponsoring company providing each participant that completes that training a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate.
Lean Essentials is run over 8 weeks consisting of 2 online classroom sessions and 5 mentor 1-1 sessions followed by a process improvement presentation.
Contact us for further details.
As we use video conferencing and online whiteboards, you will need:
For 1080p HD video: an internet speed of at least 3.8Mbps/0.3Mbps (up/down), the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari, set to accept cookies and pop-ups, and a computer equipped with camera & microphone.
Case Studies
You can also read our case studies to see how our clients used Lean Essentials to improve their business.
