Team Training

Based on a philosophy of continuous, incremental improvement, a Kaizen event is a structured team exercise which focuses on creating more value and less waste in a given activity or process. Participants will receive training on key principles of Kaizen to be able to understand and apply these to specific Rapid Improvement (Kaizen) Events. 

Many people filling a project manager role have minimal formal project management training. In this seminar, you will learn and practice the critical tools and techniques that have been proven necessary for project management success. This skills-based course provides the practical knowledge, tools and techniques to improve your project quality and performance right away.

This one-day workshop will engage participants in an in-depth exploration of what is meant by the term, “business process excellence”, and the variety of complementary disciplines that allow the goal of process excellence to be achieved by any organization.  Facilitated through a series of instructional, hands-on exercises, key concepts and tools will be introduced, culminating in a group process improvement simulation exercise.

Eight Disciplines Problem Solving (8D) is a method used to approach and resolve problems, typically employed by Quality Assurance professionals. Originally created in 1974 by the US Department of Defense, it was subsequently adopted by Ford and since then, has become a highly-adaptable, well-established and proven continuous improvement methodology.

The purpose of 8D is to identify, correct and eliminate recurring problems. This methodology is similar to Six Sigma in that it focuses on identifying root cause for system failure and inefficient processes with a goal of implementing effective and sustainable solutions.

The objective of this workshop is to learn how to select, plan and execute targeted Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) with the added benefit of conducting an actual FMEA that your team and organization can benefit from. This “Action Learning” method of workshop leverages the “Learn-Do-Apply” approach with a goal that your team members will be able to independently facilitate FMEA workshops across your organization.

Project Management Professionals possess a wealth of experience from hands-on project management as well as extensive training derived from the PMBOK® Guide. In your journey as a PMP, we are confident that you have been exposed to “Lean” and/or “Six Sigma” as a part of your engagement with your clients.

The goal of this program is to provide you with an introduction to the powerful process improvement methodologies of Lean and Six Sigma. This will give you the opportunity to learn how the concepts, tools and methods can be applied to the discipline of project management as well as enable you to deliver greater value to the clients you serve.

Develop a roadmap to manage change associated with high impact, continuous-improvement projects at a personal and team level. This program will cover how to create a roadmap to overcome resistance and create a safe environment for open discussion and effective teamwork within the organizational system, steps for developing activity and resource plans to deliver results expeditiously and will provide and understanding of Jung’s theory of personality types and how to manage different types of personalities.

Process Simulation is a model-based representation of a process using a software program. The goal of Simulation is to discover the most suitable conditions for a given process. Day 1 will be an introduction to simulation, including key concepts, methodology and examples of projects. Also, a first workshop with Arena will allow students to build a simple animated model of a process and perform various statistical analysis of the results.

Intuition is the quiet voice in project management, the silent attention, the warning bells going off, or the gut-sense that something is not going as planned. Highly intuitive project managers tend to make things look easy on the surface because what they do is not so obvious to others. What bystanders don’t see are the early response, fast thinking, communications and actions behind the scene. Strong intuition skills are essential to effective project management. This course helps incumbent project managers learn to pay attention to their intuitive signals and apply them with confidence as a problem-solving tool in the situations they face. For project managers, intuitive integrity is both a personal asset and a valuable advantage. It is also an important creativity and innovation skill.