Leadership Skills: Enhance People Skills with Lean Thinking

Description

Use the same tools and concepts that made Toyota successful to support employees' efficiency, effectiveness and emotional engagement.

THIS COURSE: Leadership Skills: Enhance People Skills with Lean Thinking

By the end of this course:

You will be able to use the tools of an assembly-line to enhance how people work together & they will thank you for it!.

Lean Thinking and People

This 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.

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.

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.

What makes this course different? As an expert in human behavior, I help business leaders and employees interact with each other and with customers in the most productive ways, mostly using tools I have created over the past 50 years. This course combines psychology and Lean thinking to enhance how people work together. It is a one-of-a-kind course. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply many Lean Thinking tools and concepts to improve how individuals work together, enhancing their effectiveness and their job satisfaction.

Course material is based upon three of my books Lean Thinking 4.0, The People Side of Lean Thinking and Mistake-Proofing Leadership (with Rudy F. Williams).

Rock Solid Business Soft Skills

My set of LEADERSHIP SKILLS 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.

My 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." I teach 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. Double asterisks (**) around a section or lecture denotes core material.

This series of Leadership Skills courses is ideal for these topics: Entrepreneurship, Communication Skills, Management Skills, Business Fundamentals, Leadership Skills, Manager Training, Conflict Management, and Influence.

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