Running a Kaizen Event

How to Run a Team Based Improvement Event

We also have a process industries specific version of this course: Kaizen in Chemicals

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Course Outline

• What is Kaizen? When would you use it?
• Team behaviours
• Structuring a Kaizen event. Preparation, facilitation, summarising
• Dealing with resistance and apathy
• Data collection, Plan Do Check Act
• Process Mapping
• Analytical techniques
• Problem Solving approaches
• Capturing actions and reviewing progress. Maintaining the momentum.  

Training Notes

A full hardcopy set of the slides and handouts will be given to all delegates who attend the course

Why Running Kaizen Events?

Kaizen events are structured team based intervention improvement activities.

While the course explains typical formats for Kaizen events, the pre-work that may be required, how to facilitate an activity, and the frequently used tools and techniques used in a Kaizen event, the main aim of a Kaizen event is to engage with a team of people to leverage their knowledge, experience, and imagination to fix problems and drive improvements.

Therefore, the softer skills are more important than the technical skills for the facilitator running a Kaizen event.

Many practical, useful and easy to use tips are provided, with the opportunity for delegates to practice these during exercises.

Drawing on our trainer’s twenty years of experience in delivering improvement projects and Kaizen events for clients, this course provides delegates with the skills to run Kaizen events and the knowledge of how to deal with the awkward situations that will arise, using case studies to illustrate scenarios.