LEAN LEADERSHIP

So how DO we keep the momentum going
after the initial application of Lean is completed?
This question has vexed all levels in an organization from top leadership, who do not understand why Lean efforts have stalled in the trenches - to employees who like having their ideas heard and used but do not understand why their managers do not seem to have time for their questions. They are finding that there is no shortcut to becoming a Lean organization. The Lean tools themselves do not create sustainable results.

Our experience has shown that the "missing link" in a stalling Lean transformation effort is that all levels in the organization are struggling because they are uncertain of the role of management in sustaining the gains.

Lean coaching/Lean mentoring
It is the role of executives and managers to create an environment and the systems in which employees can and will take responsibility for the practices, behaviors and thinking that achieve, sustain and build on improvements made with Lean. The usual situation, though, is that executives and managers are not certain what they are supposed to do.

LTG can help your organization excel in this step of its Lean transformation process. We provide one-on-one coaching/mentoring to executives and managers in order to develop their expertise to coach/mentor their people. As each level in the organization begins to understand their role in coaching/mentoring the next level - and gain both the skill and perspective to do it, the organization achieves a cascading coaching/mentoring environment where continuous Lean improvement can flourish.

LTG's coaching/mentoring services can help your people coach/mentor their staff to:

•	become effective Lean problem solvers using the A3 management process (see "Managing to Learn" at right)
•	create persuasive cases for improvements and change
•	become effective Lean change agents by gaining agreement, commitment, cooperation and support from employees who they do not manage, but are tasked with implementing the Lean improvements.

LTG is committed to helping you enhance your operations with a Lean transformation . Contact Us today to discuss how Lean coaching/mentoring can be best integrated with your Lean transformation efforts to achieve rapid, breakthrough results.

LEAN LEADERSHIP
WORKSHOPS

LTG can facilitate Lean coaching and mentoring Workshops for your team.

Select from:

		Developing People with Capability for Lean
		Change Agent Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders
		Coaching Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders
		Managing to Learn: The Use of the A3 Management Process
		Lean Leadership through Visual Management

MANAGING
TO LEARN

by John Shook

In Managing to Learn, Shook reveals the thinking underlying the vital A3 management process at the heart of Lean management and Lean leadership. The A3 report is a Toyota-pioneered practice of getting the problem, the analysis, the corrective actions, and the action plan down on a single sheet of large (A3) paper, often with the use of graphics.

Constructed as a dialogue between a manager and boss, the book explains how "A3 thinking" helps managers and executives identify, frame, and then act on problems and challenges.