Leadership Training for Lean Thinkers

In order for your managers & supervisors to deliver the necessary leadership for lean, a structured training programme is designed to equip them with the essential skills. It is delivered through a workshop approach with as much relevance to the ‘real world’ as possible. Experimental learning will be engaged wherever appropriate.

The programme is tailored to your individual needs and can include:

• A development centre
o preferred management styles of your managers & supervisors
o organisational climate survey

• Role of the Supervisor & the function of management
o Strategic management
o The six functions of management
o The role of the supervisor – piggy in the middle?

• Planning, organisation & problem solving
o The basic principle of organising
o An introduction to planning
o Problem solving

• Leading & Influencing
o Management, leadership, supervision
o Working with consensus
o Team roles

• Motivating people at work
o What is motivation
o Trust, betrayal, honesty, dysfunctional teams
o The one minute manager
o metrics

• Interpersonal skills for supervisors & managers
o Practical workshop working with actors
o Communication skills
o Counselling & guidance
o assertiveness

• The manager as coach

• Health & safety for supervision & management