One Day Practical Workshop
Creating Visual Management Systems
Create a visual system that makes performance visible, drives accountability, triggers focused actions, escalates problems, and manages daily decision-making.
Location: TBC
Dates: To be confirmed
Please email info@truenorthexcellence.com for future dates and requests
A comprehensive Visual Management System (VMS) consists of so much more than displaying performance measures, making standard work visible, or using visual signals and Kanbans.
Many organisations are just scratching the surface of the possibilities of Visual Management Systems, a practice that’s critical to the long-term sustainability of changes already made and to drive continuous improvement.
During the workshop delegates will understand how a VMS should be actively used to ‘manage’ – to control the activities performed in an area, to be used to make decisions and trigger action. Most importantly you will learn how VMS can be used to drive continuous improvement through engagement.
Attendees will be tasked on developing their own Visual Management System during the days training.
Key Learning
- Understand the key elements of a comprehensive Visual Management System.
- Learn a step-by-step methodology to create a sustainable VMS.
- Practical opportunity to design a VMS you can take back to your own workplace.
Who should attend
- Those working in a production, non-production or service environment.
- Business Leadership: From Site Managers and Plant Directors through to Manufacturing and Logistics Directors
- Operational Leadership: Includes Production, Maintenance, Production and Manufacturing
- Process Improvement Specialists: Continuous Improvement, Lean and Operational Excellence Leads
- Frontline and Supervisory Leaders: Team Leaders and Senior Supervisors managing daily tasks.
Agenda/Key Study Areas:
New date to be confirmed
- Providing purpose and direction
- Making the ‘work’ visible
- The triggering of work
- Making performance visible
- Process and outcome metrics
- Escalating non-standard conditions
- Driving continuous improvement
Package Includes:
- £445 per person if booked by 7th Feb 2025, £545 after 7th Feb 2025
- Group discount of 20% for bookings of three or more – contact info@truenorthexcellence.com for group booking code
- Free parking at Crowne Plaza NEC
- Lunch and refreshments
- Printed and digital workbooks and materials provided
Expert Trainer: DREW LOCHER
Lean Specialist and Instructor Drew first became involved in the development and delivery of innovative business improvement programmes while working for General Electric (GE) in the 1980s.
Since leaving GE in 1990 he helped the National Institute of Standards and Technologies’ Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) develop a Lean University.
Drew was a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute in 2001. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in the U.S. and abroad on the subject of Lean Enterprise Principles and Enterprise Excellence. Drew is currently an instructor in ISD’s Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata course and is responsible for developing the new Lean Leadership programme at the University of Michigan.
FOUR WAYS TO REGISTER:
Book Online: Click on Book Your Place Now at the top of the page to book tickets using credit and debit cards
Telephone: +44 (0)161 298 5556
Email: info@truenorthexcellence.com
Download and complete brochure booking form and post to: True North Excellence Ltd, 207 Knutsford Road, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 2QL
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: True North Excellence Ltd reserve the right to amend the programme, speakers or venue and alter or cancel the seminar without liability. CANCELLATIONS: Cancellation Policy: Should you be unable to attend, you are welcome to field a substitute delegate. The organisers (True North Excellence Ltd.) should be informed up to three working days before the departure date. A full refund will be paid if the delegate or their company cancels in writing within 30-days of the event, minus a £50 cancellation fee.
