Lean Kaizen Training Presentation

Editable Kaizen PowerPoint that you can quickly personalize to provide (only) the Lean concepts that are needed for your next Event

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Kaizen Checklist

Event planning to thoroughly prepare to get the best results from your team's intensive time spent together.

When the "big wigs" are coming in from out of town to participate in your next Event - you are going to REALLY appreciated having a thorough checklist containing all of the learning lessons of hundreds of other event leaders. The Kaizen Event Checklist will help you avoid thoughtless oversights that have tarnished the careers of so many of your predecessors.

Team Charter

For top management to provide clear direction to the team -
in a format that is easily copied to PowerPoint.

The Kaizen Mandate template has now been merged with the Team Charter template.

Kaizen Agenda

More detailed planning template. Who will do what, where, and when. And who needs to do what preparation and homework? And when?

Team Roles

Maybe you know every detail of every Team Role, but does everyone else know what they're supposed to be doing?

Clear responsibilities for every role needed for a successful event: Facilitator, Coordinator, Co-Leader, Value Stream Manager, Process Owner, Process Experts, Process Outsiders, Continuous Improvement Leadership Team, Executive Team, and Change Agent. (6 pages)

Ground Rules for Working Together

Covenants for mutual respect and productive work habits.

How many teams have you been part of that could have benefited enormously from taking a few moments to lay some ground rules - BEFORE someone became a problem?

Empowerment Boundaries

Top management's clear communication of what a Team can and must do. Clearly communicated in writing and framed on a wall - so that people don't have to constantly interrupt high level managers to clarify what their team is and is not empowered to do.

Presentation of Results

Editable PowerPoint for presenting results to senior management,
and then serving as a permanent record of what was accomplished

Can also be used for A3 Reporting for ANY type of continuous improvement project

Action List

also known as a Kaizen Newspaper

To collect Issues & Ideas that arise before, during, and in the days immediately following an Event,
and to assign responsibilities and deadlines to finish up all loose ends in the days immediately following an Event

Audit

To ensure the sustainability of process improvements

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Results Metrics

To establish lean process design objectives and compare to projected and actual results - managing the ∆ Delta Change gap analysis.
Easily link real-time data from various sources.

Event Evaluation Form

After each Continuous Improvement Event, it is customary for every participant to provide valuable insights

Lessons Learned

And what do you do with all of those insights gathered from the Event Evaluation forms? A savvy Lean company organizes them into a Lessons Learned repository for Operational Excellence.

"To improve the ways that we improve"

Potential Future Improvements

Also known as an Idea Bank

When people come up with ideas - you don't want to lose those ideas for lack of a means of collecting and organizing them.

Kaizen event planning: What might we do next?

Priorities Worksheet

"The Leader is the one that climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'wrong jungle'!" (Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Successful People)

The Priorities Consensus Worksheet provides a proven way for your leadership team to make sure that you choose the processes that are most worth improving.

Schedule

Schedule of upcoming improvement events.

Once your leaders have agreed upon what do do next, you need a simple way to communicate those decisions.

Training Matrix / Skills Matrix

Tto define and measure the skills and training that your people have vs. the skills and training they need.

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Cross Training Matrix