Creating & Sustaining A Culture For Lean Operations

 In this seminar participants learn about cultural impacts and the link between corporate culture and business strategy. They learn awareness and how to identify both the existing and desired beliefs. 

Participants will evaluate their own company's culture and identify actions that lead to:

● Better Teamwork

● More Creativity

● Improved Communication

● Reduced risk-averse behavior

● More Initiative

Phone to Schedule

816-931-1414

1.0 What Is Culture?

Vision, Guiding Beliefs & Daily Beliefs

Manifestations of Culture

Value Gaps

2.0 Why Culture Is So Important

Socio Technical Systems

Multi-Minded Systems

Behavioral Norms

Motivation & Maslow's

Emotional Intelligence In Organizations

A Culture For Lean Manufacturing

3.0 How To Model and Measure Culture

Corporate Archeology- Searching for Artifacts

Climate Surveys

4.0 Fitting Culture With Strategy

Culture and Corporate Strategy

Lean Organization Structures

Assessing Cultural Risk

5.0 How You Change or Reinforce Culture

Culture and The Union

Team Development

Hiring & Firing

Jack Welch on Developing People

Getting Systems to Reinforce Guiding Beliefs

          Financial Reporting

          Metrics & Measurements

          Management Development

          Compensation

          Performance Evaluation

• Why Corporate Culture is important.

• The difference between Vision, Guiding Beliefs and Daily Beliefs.

• How to effectively state a vision and guiding beliefs.

• To understand business systems from the socio technical perspective and the role culture plays.

• Mental Models of culture and how to identify your company's current culture.

• To identify gaps between Guiding Beliefs and Daily Beliefs and why these gaps are so destructive.

• What Lean Operation requires from the company culture.

• Evaluating risk from combinations of culture and strategy.

• How to change existing beliefs that may be destructive and reinforce those beliefs that contribute to strategic success.

• Using business systems such as accounting, compensation and personnel evaluations to reinforce desired cultural traits.