Mike Hoseus Lean Leadership and Transformation Event

Just a heads up that on May 30^th 2012 and June 1^st 2012, we are having world-renowned Toyota Culture author Mike Hoseus in Vancouver and Calgary respectively for a special event.

This is one of those rare events that only happens every few years, so please mark your calendar!  Our last three events with Mike sold out months in advance.

Mike is a co-author of the Toyota Way books with Dr. Liker and has written one of the most important books of all time: Toyota Culture (available at Chapters, Amazon, etc).

Blackbelts are at Lululemon

Today is the start of one of the most important projects ever for Blackbelts at world-renowned Lululemon.

Lean Leadership and Transformation with Mike Hoseus

Is your organization committed to the long-term stable employment for your employees? Do you have systems and processes in place to prepare for “the storms” and to endure them? Is it the role of everyone in your organization to solve problems?

 
Back by popular demand, Lean Sensei International is proud to host a one-day Executive training session on Lean Leadership and Transformation with award-winning author, Mike Hoseus.

Drawing from years of experience dealing with some of the best companies in the world, this training session will provide insight on how Lean Leadership and Transformation can be developed and sustained through Toyota Way principles.

This session will provide participants with a rare opportunity to reflect on their strategic style and will leave the program with a renewed energy for vision, and more importantly, a new understanding of how to steer their company to higher levels of Lean success using proven methods.

The Executive Lean Leadership and Transformation program is specifically designed to bring CEO’s, executives, and senior managers a fresh perspective on how to develop a cutting-edge strategy on Lean Leadership, Lean Culture, People Development and Strategy.

 

Attendees can expect to:

·       Learn how to develop strategy for creating the right leadership

·       Learn how to create the right culture and why delegating Lean to others doesn’t work

·       Understand why only focusing on cost cutting is the wrong approach

·       Identify and implement processes to sustain your improvement activity

 

Workshop Details

Date:            Friday, June 1st, 2012  

Location:        The Glencoe Club
Address:       636 – 29 Avenue SW
                       Calgary, AB, T2S 0P1
Time:            8:00 am – 6:30 pm

Mention you saw this on our blog, and we’ll give you a $250 discount

Registration:

For further information, or to register your spot, please contact our offices directly: 
 

Josephine Lian-Lloyd

1-888-LSI-LEAN (1-888-574-5326) 
service@leansensei.com
www.leansensei.com

Greenbelt Vancouver Summer 2012 - 5S Kaizen

Both Greenbelt Vancouver Operation & Service Programs are at Gemba to implement 5S Kaizen until Friday. Good luck on report-out!

Day two Florida Lean Tour

After three informative sessions on Day 1, the Executive participants are discovering amazing insights on their second day of the benchmarking visits. We visited Medtronics, Johnson and Johnson, and Department of Environmental Protection.

LSI Welcomes Clients to our New Office

Yesterday, LSI kicked off another Green Belt program. Our 34 participants come from a variety of North American companies in both the manufacturing and service sector. Although similar in many ways to our previous greenbelt programs, this week’s session bears one unique distinction: it is the first program to run in LSI’s new office!

The vision to have a new, more spacious “home of our own” begun about three years ago. Since that time the development manager and I viewed many office spaces but none of them quite satisfied our list of criteria. Then last fall, a few weeks before my Japan Lean Tour, in a serendipitous kind of way we came upon it, with the help of a trusted agent.  Touring the mostly gutted, stark white space, (except for a row of offices that ran the length of the east side), with its stunning city and mountain views, we instinctively knew this place fit our vision. And so began a long, stressful and challenging renovation process. It has taken longer than I imagined. But “the way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.” We're delighted to share this milestone with you - a space where we hope to inspire you to learn, to network, to challenge each other, and above all, to make a difference in the world.

I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our support team for supporting me and keeping LSI on track during the length of the renovation.  It hasn't been easy.  Another big thank you goes out to my coaches, without whose help and input, I would not have had time to pursue and realize this dream goal. And to you, our dear clients, I would like to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation. In many ways you have made this dream possible. Thank you.

David Chao

President and Founder

Greenbelt Operations Vancouver Summer 2012

Greenbelt Operations class on the balcony



Our Senior Coach, Bob with the Operations Class

Team Building Game: Protect the Egg!!



Team Building Game: Assemble the Motor Cycle!



Greenbelt Service Vancouver Summer 2012

Greenbelt Service class on the balcony

Our Executive Coach, Andrew in action,  with the Greenbelt Service Class.



Team Building Game: Protect the Egg!!




Simulation Game: New Coffee Shop opens for business.



Lean Leadership and Transformation with Mike Hoseus

Lean Sensei is proud to once again host a truly special one-day Executive session in beautiful Vancouver, BC, with one of the top co-authors of Toyota Way books - Mike Hoseus. This year we have added a stop in Mike’s itinerary, where he will be hosting the same workshop in Calgary on June 1^st 2012.

This LSI Executive Certification program is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the Toyota Way and Transformation Strategy.

Key themes:

    * Leadership

    * Culture
    * Transformation
    * Principles
    * Sustainability

If you are interested, please contact us at 604-264-1000 as there are only a limited number of spots remaining. Mention you saw this on our blog and we’ll give you a $250 discount!

Vancouver

Date:            Wednesday, May 30th, 2012  
Location:       Terminal City Club
Address:       837 West Hastings St
                        Vancouver, BC, V6C 1B6
Time:            8:00 am – 6:30 pm

Calgary

Date:            Friday, June 1st, 2012  
Location:       The Glencoe Club
Address:       636 – 29 Avenue SW
                       Calgary, AB, T2S 0P1
Time:            8:00 am – 6:30 pm

Florida Lean Tour 2012 Kicks Off

With high spirit this morning we are off to our first day of the Florida lean tour!

16 Executive participants from both Operations and Service industries will be visiting three Jacksonville lean benchmarking companies today.

Lean in Jacksonville!

After an extended travel flying in from Vancouver to Jacksonville, we are so excited to kick off an Intro to Lean Strategy workshop this morning! It's great to be back to JAX.

Here are some of the pictures from this morning.

Lean Leadership and Transformation with Mike Hoseus

"I was inspired"

"Stimulating Session!"

"I learned so much already"

These were some of the comments from people who attended our Executive Program with Mike Hoseus last year.  There are still some spots available in this year’s workshop (Vancouver 30^th May and Calgary on the 1^st June).

Register now if you haven’t yet secured your spot – Please request the brochure here.

Huge savings available for those who register groups of 5+ or 10+ - contact our offices for more details!

In-house Greenbelt Service (Winnipeg) - Module 2

During In-house Greenbelt Service Module 2 in Winnipeg, before participants tackled the hands-on kaizen, they took part in an exercise, making paper airplanes with their teammates.
This exercise to make airplanes as efficient as possible without overproduction and any defects. Key points to take away from this exercise - Measure the cycle-time, balance the production line and always keep the customer demands in mind!

Japan Lean Tour - Toyota Motor Corporation Motomachi Plant Visit

Group Photo at Toyota Motor Corporation Motomachi Plant Visit.

Greenbelt Operations Calgary Spring Graduation!

We are excited to announce the formal graduation of our Greenbelt class! 9 people worked extremely hard to achieve this amazing goal of becoming certified as a Greenbelt on last Friday. Congratulations!


We greatly appreciate your hard work! We wish them all the best on their lean journey ahead!

3 medalists (Greg, Peter and Jaret)!  Congratulations!!

We greatly appreciate all the support from the sponsors.

Check out their Graduation Movie!