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What is a Lean Culture and how do you create it? Why develop Employee Involvement Teamworking? Peter Watkins answers these questions and explains the Employee Involvement Teamworking Journey in this article.

Read it here: https://www.leanuk.org/develop-a-lean-culture-through-employee-involvement-teamworking/

In this book, Toyota veteran Sadao Nomura shares his decades of experience leading and supporting Toyota operations and tells the story of the dramatic improvement he and his team achieved at Toyota Logistics & Forklift (TL&F).

https://www.leanuk.org/product/the-toyota-way-of-dantotsu-radical-quality-improvement/

In Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth, Satoshi Hino examines the source of Toyota’s strength: the fundamental thinking and management structures that lie beneath the creation of its famed Toyota Production System.

https://www.leanuk.org/product/inside-the-mind-of-toyota/

What are the roles and responsibilities around A3 Practical Problem Solving? Also how can leaders can support capability development to build an army of problem solvers?

Learn more in our Free Skill Level 1 online course: https://www.leanuk.org/courses/a3-8-step-practical-problem-solving/

As explained in our Facilitation Guide for 8 Step Practical Problem Solving, in Step 3 of Practical Problem Solving there are 4 stages:
Breakdown the Gap
Point of cause
Summarise the problems to pursue
Establish the direct causes

https://www.leanuk.org/product/a3-8-step-practical-problem-solving-teach-poster-facilitation-guide/

Creating Lean Dealers is a DIY guide to enable dealers to achieve such a step-change for themselves. It works through, using examples, diagrams and detailed instructions, how to transform performance in service and repair.

Purchase the book here: https://www.leanuk.org/product/creating-lean-dealers/

The Lean Transformation Framework (LTF) was developed by John Shook to address how organisations and individuals can become more successful in using lean thinking and practice to transformation.

Learn more about the LTF on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/zsGs_9FAXSM

Exciting opportunity to attend Toyota’s ‘A Lean Approach’ Seminar at their Vehicle Manufacturing Plant in Burnaston, Derby, UK! ⬇️

Visit Toyota (UK)’s state-of-the-art vehicle manufacturing facility and learn about their approach to manufacturing. Experience this unique introduction to the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Quality Management at the gemba.

Toyota's seminars allow delegates to experience close shop-floor observations that make their seminars so unique. Key highlights of the seminar include:

• Floor Management Development System (at Assembly) Experiential Tour
• Quality Learning Centre
• Standardised Work & Kaizen (at Body Manufacturing) Experiential Tour
• Manufacturing Development Obeya
• Panel Q&A with Toyota UK Senior Leaders

The full one-day seminar takes place on Wednesday 24th July 2024. Places are limited, please act promptly so you don’t miss out on this unique opportunity! Further dates will also be available later in the year, contact us for more details.

The cost to attend is £1,100.00 per delegate. 100% of the fee will be donated to the Toyota Manufacturing UK Charitable Trust.

If you would like to attend, please contact [email protected]

Looking back to her experience coaching teams in Africa, Sharon Visser encourages us to introduce play in our work, as a way of teaching people and of unlocking creativity.

Read the latest Planet Lean article here:

Think like a child and let creativity flow FEATURE - Looking back to her experience coaching teams in Africa, the author encourages us to introduce play in our work, as a way of teaching people and of unlocking creativity.

In this article David Brunt explores the compatibility between remote working, highlighting the problems we are trying to solve. David explains his top 3 tips for Remote Working and Lean.

Read the article here: https://www.leanuk.org/lean-remote-working/

The 8 step business process improvement method is a proven approach developed for practically capturing and improving the work activities and value flow in a process.

Learn how to apply Plan-Do-Check-Act to business processes with BPI Skill Level 1: https://www.leanuk.org/courses/business-process-improvement/

With the help of John Shook, we have developed a Teach Poster around the Lean Transformation Framework.

The poster explains the Purpose, Process and People elements, as well as the 5 fundamental dimensions of the framework.

Learn more about the poster here: https://www.leanuk.org/product/lean-transformation-framework-teach-poster/

We have now made our Lean Transformation Framework Webinar FREE on our YouTube Channel!

In the webinar, the LEA team looks at the 5 Dimensions of the Lean Transformations Framework (LTF), as well as the Purpose, Process and People elements.

Watch the webinar below ⬇️

Lean Transformation Framework Webinar: An Explanation of the 5 Dimensions In this webinar, the LEA team explore the 5 dimensions of the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF), as well as the Purpose, Process and People elements. Want ...

Read Peter Watkins' article on the power of using A3 Documents on a real problem to simplify complex reporting and free up management time. The article includes a template that can be used for status report A3 Documents.

Read the article here: https://www.leanuk.org/saving-management-time-using-a3/

"Kaizen Express" by John Shook and Toshiko Narusawa clarifies the process using a rapid, nonstop style to explain the essential elements of the Toyota Production System (TPS) in a logical implementation sequence. Get your copy here: https://www.leanuk.org/product/kaizen-express/

Proposal A3’s focus on the “created” type problems or situations, where you perhaps want to propose doing something differently or new to close a created gap. In our A3 Document Type & Uses online course we cover the types of A3's.
Access it here: www.leanuk.org/a3-document-types-and-uses/

The Lean Transformation Framework helps determine the best lean journey for your situation. Based around 5 questions, it starts by asking what problem are we trying to solve? We use it to decide how to support your needs and progress your lean journey.

https://www.leanuk.org/about-the-lean-enterprise-academy/how-to-do-lean/

Struggling to find high quality lean materials?

Our learning platform has a range of online course, webinars, teach posters, facilitation guides, delegate workbooks and other resources to help support your organisations lean journey.

Learn more here: https://www.leanuk.org/learn-lean/

COMING SOON 📢

We have been working hard to develop the latest materials on Core Leadership Skills and Management System – Improvement.

Core Leadership Skills are the key behaviours required by leaders to support Lean thinking & practice and help create a culture of continuous improvement.

Management System – Improvement is improving the level of performance for a process or activity.

We will be publishing a Skill Level 1: Knowledge online course for each subject area on our Learning Platform, followed by a Skill Level 2: Understanding Teach Poster & Facilitation Guide on our shop.

If you are a Learning Platform Subscriber, you will be able to access these courses and materials at no extra cost!

Does your organisation need support in applying lean thinking and practice to your unique situation?

Our team has a combined total of over 70 years Lean experience and worked with hundreds of companies across the globe.

Contact us here: https://www.leanuk.org/contact-us/

Rapid Problem Solving works well with those gap from standard and target condition problems. It offers a structured approach to get to root causes/ countermeasures.

Learn about the problem solving framework and Rapid Problem Solving on our online course: https://www.leanuk.org/product/4-step-rapid-problem-solving-skill-level-1-knowledge/

The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.

Get your copy here: https://www.leanuk.org/product/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/

Here is our Muda - The 8 Wastes Teach Poster in action with one of our partner organisations. Our senior lean coach David Marriott explained how identifying and analysing waste is a part of the 8 Step Business Process Improvement method (Step 5 - Waste Analysis).

What is A3 8 Step Practical Problem Solving?

Watch our free 8 part mini-series on YouTube, which explains Steps 1-8 of A3 Practical Problem Solving

Watch the series here: https://buff.ly/3UGA7Xs

The starting point for lean is understanding what situational problems you need to solve and following a robust method to solve them – rather than jumping to solutions.

Learn more about problem solving on our free level 1 online course: https://www.leanuk.org/product/practical-problem-solving-level-1/

When identifying the 8 wastes (Muda) in the workplace, following a Plan - Do - Check - Act process is a great way of teaching waste observation to team members.

Our Muda – The 8 Wastes online course explains this in further detail: https://www.leanuk.org/product/course-muda-the-8-wastes-skill-level-1-knowledge/

What materials would you like to see us develop next?

Here at LEA, we are continuously creating the highest quality learning materials including, online courses, teach posters & workbooks/guides, that cover topics such as Problem Solving, 5S, Kaizen, and more.

This book reveals Toyota’s general management systems from the firsthand experience of a Toyota Japanese senior manager and describes the attitude, behaviours, and systems needed to successfully establish and lead in a true Lean business environment.

www.leanuk.org/product/welcome-problems-find-success-creating-toyota-cultures-around-the-world/