Effective Team Leadership

Course Overview

This course is designed to train people who will be leading employee teams through continuous improvement projects, events and workshops. The skills needed by an effective team leader are a combination of analytical problem-solving abilities and interpersonal leadership abilities. This course teaches how to apply the tools of lean manufacturing in enough detail to know when and how the tools are used. We include instruction on flow-charting, takt time, line balancing, work combination charts, set-up reduction methods, work standardization, 5-S methods, problem solving and more. The course also teaches how to organize, direct and lead employee teams to accomplish specific objectives. We teach how to recognize team problems and work through those problems to achieve successful outcomes in the face of resistance.

Standard Class Size

This class is most effective when presented to a group of 6-10 people.

Pre-requisites

This class is intended for people are in leadership positions and who have received basic training in lean manufacturing or lean office skills. Also, the participants should have already participated in some type of lean implementation event such as a workshop or kaizen event.

Class Administration

This class is typically booked through Tulsa Technology Center as part of an overall Lean Enterprise conversion. The student books are normally printed by ISI and are available at the ISI offices as needed.