What You Can Expect From This Seminar
In terms of Lean, leadership has been the number one subject companies are interested in. Mike Hoseus, co-author of Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way will present on the role of leadership in Lean Transformation. He’ll provide reasons for integrating Lean Transformation into your organization, common barriers, the Toyota model, how to make changes in leadership responsibilities and behaviors, and how to engage all the members of your organization.
AM – The role of Leadership in Lean Transformation
- Learn how immediately to improve your profits and cash flow.
- Understand why simply focusing on “cost cutting” during these challenging times is the wrong approach.
- Learn why “delegating lean” to others doesn’t work, and may actually hurt your bottom line.
- Learn how to Align Organizational Purpose, Outputs, Vision, Mission and Values
- Learn how to Establish a Culture of Trust and Continuous Improvement
- Management - Assess your organization’s capability to change, manage change effectively and a plan to address gaps.
- Hoshin Kanri - Learn a system that enables every single employee from Top Management down to share the vision and participate in its management.
- Connect the company strategies to daily activities and address current business needs.
PM - The Role of the Associate in Lean
- Learn how to unleash the potential of all your employees in improving their work toward the common purpose of your organization
- Learn the foundational “prerequisites” necessary for team member engagement
- Understand the support systems needed to sustain and improve team member engagement
- Identify the role of Standardized Work and Job Instruction
- Learn how Quality Circles and Suggestion Systems work
- Review Communication Meetings: Daily Huddles and the Floor Management Development System
- Review Daily Systematic Problem Solving
Who Should Attend
Recommended Attendee’s: Leadership teams – companies who choose to bring their leadership team to this event will gain the most value. Additionally, individual CEO’s, Presidents, Vice Presidents, Executive Leaders, General Managers, Managers, Lean Leaders, and those facilitating change within their company are invited to attend.
About the seminar leader:
Michael Hoseus is Executive Director for the Center for Quality People & Organizations (CQPO). Mike brings both manufacturing operations and specialization in Human Resource experience to CQPO. CQPO is an organization developed in 1999 as a vision of Toyota Motor Manufacturing to share Lean Quality philosophy and human resource practices with education, business, and community organizations. CQPO current projects with Toyota include New Hire selection and training process, Team Leader and Group Leader post promotion training, Quality Circle Leader and Manager training, and Global Problem Solving for all levels. Mike is an adjunct professor with the University of Kentucky’s Lean Manufacturing Program. Mike is co author with CQPO and Dr. Jeffery Liker (Author of the Toyota Way) of Toyota Culture. Mike is also president of CMH Inc.
Prior to CQPO, Mike was a corporate leader for 13 years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Georgetown, Kentucky, plant both in Human Resources and Manufacturing. As Assistant General Manager in Human Resources, his responsibilities included personnel, safety, HR development, employee relations, benefits, training, and manufacturing/human resource teams for a plant of 8000 team members. His major initiative was development of the enhanced relationship between Human Resource and Manufacturing Mike’s operational responsibilities in manufacturing started in 1987 as a front line supervisor in vehicle assembly. This included all aspects of safety, quality, productivity, cost and morale for operations. With experience as Assembly Plant Manager and eventually Assistant General Manager, his responsibilities increased to include both assembly plants including operations, maintenance, and engineering. He is a Toyota Certified Trainer in Global Problem Solving & Waste Reduction, Standardized Work and Kaizen Events.
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