Workshops

Principles of Operational Excellence & Assessment

Workshop participants will gain an understanding of the Shingo model and the underlying principles behind The Shingo Prize philosophy and approach. Participants will learn and gain experience in aligning your organizational principles and core values with your systems. There will be group activities that help develop skills in assessing alignment and also how to address misalignments by embedding your principles into your work and management systems.

In addition, participants will develop a comprehensive working knowledge of The Shingo Prize application guidelines, which includes the criteria and methods for assessment of the progress an organization has made in its lean transformation. By completing this training, participants will learn how to use the Shingo model and guidelines to complete internal self-assessment that will clearly identify areas for focus and improvement in the entire organization.

This two-day workshop begins with a comprehensive overview of the Shingo model and its key elements, enabling all participants to reach a common level of understanding. The workshop combines several learning modules with hands-on activities that enhance learning. Participants will be grouped into assessment teams and visit a host facility where you will work through each step of the assessment process: preparation through initial desk assessment, visiting the workplace to observe and interview, team discussion and assessment, and finally creating a feedback report.

 

Who Would Benefit From This Workshop?

Those who want to use the Shingo assessment to drive lean transformation and results in their organization. Participants should have basic lean training and experience.

 

• Executive Leadership
• General Managers; Department Managers; Plant Managers; Team members of various departments, including    

   Materials, Quality, and Engineering
• Lean Team Leaders
• Administrative Management, Staff, and Team Leaders
• Sales, Customer Relations, Supplier Management, and Staff

 

TSP Mapping

 

TSP Mapping helps an organization visualize alignment of its tools, systems, and principles. By starting at the organizations’ mission, vision, core values, and strategic philosophy, we create a starting point to align key lean principles across the enterprise. Most organizations find it easier to implement lean tools to target immediate gains in the spirit of elimination of waste, but this creates serious problems later on when it becomes time to sustain those efforts. A short-term focus quickly blinds the capabilities on exponential gains of a principle-driven, long-term focus.

 

The most common missed link between the Shingo model and driving lean principle behavior is understanding the entire alignment of tools, systems, and principles (TSP); being able to map ideal behavior tied to lean principles and how your systems are created to support those principles; and finally how your tools where selectively chosen to support those systems.

 

 

New courses being developed:

Every Leader A Teacher

Building Systems

The Neuroscience of Continuous Improvement

 

For more information or to schedule your training event today, please contact Ben Hillyard, ben.hillyard@usu.edu, 435.797.3844. For a list of scheduled events, please click here. Special pricing for private trainings.