As an organization's internal lean coach you can feel frustrated and alone without peer feedback and access to a more experienced coach of your own. Share your feelings, challenges and frustrations with others like you in a safe psychological space facilitated by an experienced professional "coach's coach". Test your ideas. Get expert feedback. Learn how to solve your unique social and "political" challenges.

FOR: Those coaching others in Lean practice.

Your workplace - in the office, at home and virtual - can contribute to "flow" or interrupt it. Come hear and share with others the best ideas for "making your workplace work". We cover how to make a more visual workplace (including work status, metrics, goals), using Kanban, "Gemba", daily check-ins, office 5S, building relationship, even office politics.

FOR: Anyone anyone who works and supports the field.

Lean initiatives have suffered during Covid: staff layoffs, reductions in training budgets, the need to reestablish supply chains and project interruptions. A vibrant lean culture can help us be better post-Covid, but how? Explore new options to build a ground-up lean culture by creating short repeatable opportunities for key staff and leadership to take the helm and reinvent together. This can be the critical element of your 2021 initiatives.

FOR: those leading or developing a Lean initiative.

Gain a deeper understanding of the foundational Lean concepts of Value, Waste, and Flow through live discussion and a virtual Waste Walk that will open your eyes to potential for the improvement that lies around each of us every day on every project in every company.

For: those new to Lean or those with intermediate experience who want to be regrounded in Lean principles and get some new ways to talk to others about Lean.

If your work isn’t value, it’s waste. It’s that’s simple. By some studies, over 50% of labor can be categorized as waste – and we are oblivious to much of it. And so, the first step in removing waste must be learning to see it. On this virtual waste walk you will identify examples of each of the 8 wastes that surround each of us, then join a collaborative discussion about those examples and generate improvement ideas.

FOR: anyone who does work, hates waste, and wants do something about it.

Experience a mock-up virtual pull plan from start to finish, including: 1) What is the Last Planner System(R)? 2) Pulling backwards to create a phase pull plan 3) Walking through the plan to verify it 4) How & when to update your plan and 5) Real time coaching tips.

FOR: those new to the Last Planner System(R) that want to understand their role and responsibilities better, as well as those who want hands on experience before leading a pull planning session.

Learn what it takes to plan for and facilitate a virtual pull planning session from start to finish. Includes hands on experience with 3 different online collaboration apps and discussion of different planning templates.

For: those already familiar with the Last Planer System(R) who plan to run their own pull planning session.

For: those already familiar with the Last Planer System(R) who plan to run their own pull planning session.

Let's talk through what's working and not working with your business or team to find out how we can help. We're really smart. And a little funny. 😁