Achieve Your performance Goals with CLE

This one year-long program provides the necessary infrastructure to implement, sustain, and build on your improvements. Our services include training, kaizen prep and workshops, and consultation. A CLE consultant will work closely with management to create and implement a continuous improvement system to address your unique challenges by cascading learning to engender the type of commitment necessary for a lean anti-racist enterprise. CISI will include the following services: 

· Perform an assessment

· Train leadership team

· Provide lean anti-racist basic training to the workforce

· Train internal group of lean champions with customized training to suit your business

· Implement 5SI Inclusive Visual Workplace Organization

· Select and improve key pilot areas through kaizen activities

· Develop management standard work

· Generate value stream maps (VSM) 

· Identify key kaizen activities through VSM and develop a detailed improvement plan

· Perform team kaizen activities and projects to execute VSM plans

· Conduct follow-up audits and provide feedback

An experienced practitioner with many years of experience teaches these courses on site at your company or virtually. CLE recognizes that participants have different learning styles and learn best when they can experience what they are learning. With that in mind, training workshops include instruction, discussion, small group exercises, videos, simulations, and opportunities to apply the methods participants have learned to their own business conditions. Our portfolio of interactive training courses/topics includes: 

· Lean Basic Training 

· 9 Types of Wastes including Racial Inequity

· Using Lean Thinking to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

· Value Stream Mapping 

· A3 Problem Solving/5-Whys

· 5SI Inclusive Visual Workplace Organization

· Standard Work

· Conducting Kaizen Workshops

· How to Make Improvements Last

Participants who successfully complete the training program, a project A3 with value stream maps, and demonstrate successful implementation in their organization will be awarded certification. 

We can also customize training programs to your specific needs.

Kaizen, which is the Japanese word for “improvement or change for the better,” refers to a philosophy or practices that focus on sustainable continuous improvement. Kaizen provides a structure to convert employees’ improvement ideas into realized changes that have a positive impact on the business, transforming the organization in incremental sustainable steps. Besides the tangible benefits, kaizen is regarded as the most effective technique to improve engagement and culture within a company. Kaizen workshops are typically 3 to 5 days and generally include the following activities: 

· Complete Basic Training

· Define the Problem/Goals (A3)

· Observe and Document the Current State Value Stream

· Brainstorm and Develop a Future and Ideal State Value Steam

· Implement Countermeasures

· Develop a Sustainment Plan

· Present Results

· Celebrate Successes

CLE consultants have facilitated scores of kaizen workshops ranging from manufacturing, healthcare, education, government, and non-profit business process improvements. Kaizen workshops are flexible and boast a high return on investment because the improvement is rapid. Most importantly, the kaizen provides a hands-on learning experience that team members can apply every day.

An assessment can be conducted as a first step to understand where your organization currently stands, how it can benefit from lean and anti-racist process improvement, and what major activities need to be done to transform your organization into a lean anti-racist enterprise. A CLE consultant will spend time on-site at your organization interviewing key personnel, gathering data, and observing operations. Finally, we will provide a written report and presentation to management that includes a value stream analysis, opportunities for improvement, and recommendations. 

This is an effective way to keep your improvements moving forward and to prevent backsliding. This service includes establishing a routine follow-up audit schedule, providing constructive feedback, and teaching management how to conduct audits to ensure employees are maintaining standards, finding improvement opportunities, and developing new standards. When regular auditing is not established and performed, improvements slide backwards. The aim of this service is to prevent that from happening. 

A CLE consultant will work closely with managers and other change agents at your company in a hands-on manner to coach them through understanding and applying PDCA in your organization to create a culture of continuous improvement, anti-racism, and learning. The coaching and mentoring will establish a framework for problem-solving and continuous improvement that is reinforced in daily management, improvement circles and workshops. The aim is to make daily improvement a mindset, routine, and common practice. This service will teach managers and change agents how to:

· Apply PDCA 

· Commonize how members of an organization solve problems

· Transition toward the role of a coach and mentor

· Actualize PDCA in a way that has people learning from small steps everyday