Lean Now Facilitator Course

Abstract

The Lean Now Facilitator Course was developed by the LAI Transformation Director, Terry Bryan, to prepare industry and government lean facilitators to participate in an Enterprise Value Stream Mapping and Analysis (EVSMA) event (later named Enterprise Strategic Analysis and Transformation (ESAT)). The course is a comprehensive 5-day course to prepare facilitators for a lean transformation event at the enterprise level. As such, the LAI Lean Now Facilitator Course was intentionally developed, and is best employed as, a multi-day instructional course. Provided with this course are folders labelled "Day 1" through "Day 5" which are designed to be accessed in chronological order; within each folder, the individual files are designed to be accessed in numerical order. There are two other folders: Action Tracker Files and Reference Files that are not indigenous to any one stage of the LAI Lean Now Facilitator Course, and may be accessed and utilized at any point. While any folder can be opened at any point and considered independently of another, the LAI Lean Now Facilitator Course follows a very specific program, with each component consciously designed to be utilized after another. To maximize the LAI Lean Now Facilitator Course, it is important that this day-by-day and step-by-step progression be maintained. To assist in this, checklists for the major components are included in the file entitled "Day 1-2 Project Checklist.pdf". In this way, a comprehensive approach to lean facilitation training is enabled, with each step building on what has been learned from the previous ones.