Assessing Your Organization for Lean
A 1-Day Workshop Series for Senior Leaders and Change Leaders

The Performance Excellence Network (PEN) together with its partner, Compass Affiliates, is offering this workshop to help senior leaders, and those who are expected to lead change efforts in their organization, explore and understand how to make meaningful change in their organization.

This workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEU through Normandale.

Date October 22, 2015

This workshop is offered as part of the Change Management Series being offered at Normandale during the summer-fall of 2015.

Location

Normandale Community College

9700 France Avenue South

Bloomington, MN 55431

Room P0806

Cost – All pricing is for PEN/Partner members and the entire 1-Day workshop and requires team members to be from the same organization.

1-2 people – $300 each person

Teams of 3 people from the same organization – $800 per team

Additional Team Members over 3 – $250 each

Non-members add $100 per person to participate

Fees include all materials, continental breakfast, and lunch

Capacity: The workshop is limited to 30 people to generate maximum interaction between the facilitator and the organizations participating.

General Description

When leaders commit to transforming an organization to “be lean”, what does it mean? How does one begin? How do you know where you are on the journey and what is it like when you “get there?” These and many more questions are often heard throughout the lean community. The truth is, it varies in every situation and there truly is no end, as we can always continue to learn and evolve.

While there is no “magic ball” to tell us precisely where we are today or what to do next, we can subjectively assess the lean culture of an organization. That said, it is important to understand there are a vast array of lean concepts, behaviors, systems and tools that can be seen in a variety of ways and to varying degrees in any organization. To say that one organization is “assessed” to be at particular phase of their lean journey and have it mean exactly the same thing for another organization that is “assessed” to be in the same phase is almost impossible; as there are far too many dynamic and complex attributes that differentiate the organizations. However, while we cannot compare exact “apples-to-apples” of one organization to another, we can synthesize similar types of expected attributes and related behaviors in order to help us better understand where an organization is currently and provide some options for where to go next in order to continue to build a lean problem-solving culture. Of course, the choices of where to focus can be daunting, if not overwhelming.

This workshop will help you to better understand where your organization is today and identify some reasonable targets for the future by providing you with an assessment tool that can be used to objectively (or subjectively?? How much scientific evidence is behind it?) evaluate your company’s current lean capabilities and help you to create realistic goals for where to focus on next. In addition to the lecture portion of this workshop, you will have the opportunity to complete a “Lean Journey Self-Assessment Tool”, and have time for open dialogue and reflection through team exercises. At the end of the day, members of the workshop will create an action plan with preliminary goals established in order to move ahead at a pace that you feel is appropriate for your organization.

At the end of this workshop, you will:

• Understand the attributes associated with a lean culture and how they work together
• Complete a “Lean Journey Self-Assessment Tool”
• Identify where your organization is on their journey
• Highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these lean attributes
• Identify short-term and/or long-term goals
• Create an action plan with specific areas of focus with a timeline

Who Should Attend?

• Individuals or teams that want to gain a better understanding of the attributes within a lean organization
• Individuals or teams with little-to-moderate experience and exposure to lean who are looking to increase their understanding of the various components of a lean culture
• Managers who want to gain a better understanding of the total scope for what a lean culture can look like as it continues on the journey
• Leaders who want to assess where they are today and create a plan of action for where they can aim to be next
• Anyone who wants to use a quantifiable tool to compare and contrast year-over-year results as they continue on their lean journey

Whether you are starting out, strengthening, or reinvigorating your lean efforts within your organization this workshop will provide you with a tool to better understand where you are today and what your future can look like.

Instructor

Chris Vogel specializes in the Development of Lean Leaders and Administrative Lean. He has over 15 years of Lean Culture, Strategy, Coaching, Organizational Development, and Process Improvement experience including holding a variety of senior management positions including Operations Leadership, Lean Deployment, Financial Analysis & Planning and Information Technology. During his 15 years at Wells Fargo, Chris led and used Lean to transform a division of Wells Fargo translating the Toyota Production System tools and concepts for non- manufacturing. As CEO of Compass Affiliates Chris provides executive coaching and works with leaders to develop and execute organization wide Lean transformation strategies.

Chris is a global speaker on Lean transformation, is a member of the Performance Excellence Network, supports the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and is a Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member.