Lean Awareness
Give your teams a clear start with Lean. Lean Awareness is a one-day classroom course with a Lego simulation, Lean basics, customer value, SIPOC, value stream mapping, Kaizen, DMAIC and daily boards, ending with a personal Lean action pitch for each participant.
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Category
Lean Management
Training Type
Workshop
Level
Professional
Lean Awareness – Help Your Teams Improve Every Day
Every day, people in your organization see where work gets stuck: piles of requests, repeated mistakes, long approval chains. Many want to fix these issues but are unsure where to begin or how to get others on board. Lean Awareness gives them a simple starting point and shared tools.
In this Lean way of working training, participants learn Lean basics in plain language and use a Lego simulation to test ideas in a safe setting. They leave with real examples, not just theory, and a clear idea of what they can try in their own team.
Who Will Benefit Most
This course is for people who care about how work gets done:
- Team members who handle customers or internal requests
- Supervisors and team leads who keep the day running
- Managers who want fewer recurring problems and clearer flow
- Support functions like HR, finance, IT, and shared services
You do not need a background in Lean. Curiosity and a wish to make work better are enough. Lean Awareness uses real-life examples and simple language, so everyone can follow and join the discussion.
What You Will Walk Away With
By the end of Lean Awareness, people will:
- Grasp the core ideas of Lean thinking and acting
- See what customer value looks like in their own role
- Spot waste and non-value-adding steps in daily tasks
- Use SIPOC to frame a process from start to finish
- Read a value stream map and understand where delays arise
- Make sense of basic KPIs that show how a process performs
- Work with day boards, week boards, and an improvement board
- Use Kaizen, DMAIC, and 5-Why to discuss problems in a calm, structured way
To close the day, each person shares a short Lean action pitch: one thing they want to start, change, or stop in their own team to support Lean transformation.
How to Sign Up
If you want your teams to share a clear Lean foundation, spot waste early, and talk about problems with a common set of tools, Lean Awareness is a solid starting point.
You can register via the Training Schedules section below, or contact us directly to arrange an in-house session tailored to your organization.
Duration
1-day
Course Delivery
Classroom or Virtual Classroom
What’s included
Course Book (eBook or printed) containing all of the presentation materials and course notes.
Prerequisites
No pre-requistes.
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Concepts Covered
Why Lean
- Creating culture of continuous improvement?
Introduction to Lean
- Business Objectives
- Reasons to be Lean
- Consequence of Lean
Lean Lego Simulation – Round 1: Introduction of Lean
Value and Waste
- Customer value
- The five dimensions and continuous improvement
- Critical to Quality connects Customer Value with delivery
- SIPOC: Scoping the process
- Value Stream Mapping
- Key Performance Indicator
- Earning Capacity Analysis
Lean Lego Simulation – Round 2: Improve
- Identify all waste factors
Daily Lean approach
- Management agendas aligned for information sharing
- Three boards make team performance transparent
Problem solving and Kaizen
- Kaizen
- Why Kaizen?
- The intent of improving continuously
- Kaizen Event: Roles
- The DMAIC Problem-solving Method: 5 Phases
Lean Lego Simulation – Round 3: Optimize
- Improve the flow of the simulation
Training Schedules
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