Kaizen with Leadership
The Situational Leadership course is designed for managers who need to improve how they engage and motivate teams with varying levels of maturity. It equips leaders with tools to adapt their style, increase autonomy, and drive consistent results.
**Learning Objectives:**
• Understand different leadership styles and when to apply each one.
• Develop behavioral flexibility to guide people in diverse situations.
• Practice feedback and coaching techniques that strengthen team confidence and performance.
• Enhance the ability to engage employees and foster collaborative work environments.
Requisitos
There is no prerequisite
Workload
16 hours
Formatos
In-person and OnlineContent
Basic Structure:
SOFT SKILLS
• Transformation: Preparing managers to lead changes
• Self assessment: positive good points / points of concern/bothering
• How to work the change better (commitment vs Time)
• A possible model to accelerate transformation
• To be a proactive leader
• Create a Positive Vision
• Shape the Vision
• Mobilize the commitment
• Perpetuate the transformation
• Monitor the progress
• Video: The strength of an Ideal – reflections and activities about the movie’s message
• Reasons for resistance to change and how to overcome them
• The features of effective leaders
• Strategies to influence/accelerate the change
• Closing / Feedback /Individual Action Plan: How to apply the learned knowledge in the routine?
• Implementation of a small Kaizen in class for practical learning
**Hard skills**
• Lean definition
• 8 Lean wastes
• Kaizen methodology for process improvement
• Where does Kaizen fit
• Kaizen process: before, during, and after the event
• Preparing for Kaizen
• Problem Definition
• Roles and responsibilities
• Sponsor meeting
• Schedule and tools definition
• Needed infrastructure
• A3
• Leading Kaizen
• Facilitation techniques
• Kaizen tools (flowchart, VSM, brainstorming (Ishikawa), cause and effect matrix, effort vs impact matrix, create and implement actions – 5W2H model)
• Follow-up
• Implementation of a small Kaizen for practical learning
**Workload****:** 16 hours
**Pre-work:** Prepare topics to be discussed in class
**NOTE:** No need for computer use