This is the fourth annual Leading Through Excellence summit from the Center for Operational Excellence. It’s a three-day blend of hands-on workshops, operations-focused tours, and presentations from leading voices in industry and operations research.

See summit schedule here: http://fisher.osu.edu/centers/coe/events/coe-summit/schedule/

Several workshops are being held April 12, 2016, however all plant tours are sold out. Learn more here:
http://fisher.osu.edu/centers/coe/events/coe-summit/plant-tours/

Now until registrations sell out, groups of five or more that register receive an extra 5%.

2016 TWI & Lean HR Summits
2 Summits... in 1 location... at 1 time
• May 9–10: Optional job instruction and job relations training
• May 11: Optional workshops
• May 12–13: TWI & Lean HR Summits

See full agenda: http://twihr.leanfrontiers.com/agenda/

These Training Withing Industry (TWI) and Lean HR events are produced by Lean Frontiers: http://www.leanfrontiers.com/

2016 Toyota Kata Summit

Click here for agenda.

Calling all Improvement Kata / Coaching Kata practitioners, and those who would like to be! The first-ever Kata Summit, or KataCon, is in the books and the community readies itself for KataCon 2! Whether you were part the first Summit or not, here’s your chance to connect or reconnect with the rapidly growing world of Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata users. The Summit emphasizes experiential learning so practitioners, trainers and consultants can integrate practice of the IK/CK routines into their teams and organizations. This conference goes beyond concepts by equipping attendees to train and practice at home.

• The conference will build on the foundation facilitated by Mike Rother and Bill Costantino.
• All participants will practice the IK and CK live.
• Keynotes from leading figures in the IK/CK community.
• Hear reports from experienced IK/CK practitioners.
• Pick up tips for your practice and beyond.
• All attendees will take home the very latest “IK/CK Practice Kit”.
• And more!
• GBMP will provide every KataCon participant with a copy of its Shingo Award-winning video Improvement Kata.

The online course, Personal Kanban—Taking Control of Your Work & Your Life, which launches Feb. 18, 2016, offers self-paced instruction, videos, and forums with lifetime access across all your devices.
You’ll learn how to:
• Better prioritize your tasks
• Increase focus
• Complete your work with quality results
• Create better daily work habits

Personal Kanban enables us to see, control, and complete our work.
Learn more at: http://modusinstitute.com/courses/personal-kanban

Learning Lab: Health Data Analytics: Reporting and Analysis of Quality Data in Post-Acute Settings

This learning lab will discuss how to use internal and external data for building quality dashboards. Timely and pertinent examples of predictive analyses being used in post-acute settings will be shared.
Learning objectives:
1. Discuss how post acute providers in the shift to demonstrate value, can show how they are good partners in the continuum of care by using data to benchmark their performance.
2. Identify about what data from post acute providers can be useful in evaluating the performance of an organization.
3. Describe how post acute providers build the infrastructure to report their performance to acute care settings.

All registrants will receive webinar access information, access to an evaluation, and earn individual CPHQ CE credit. Contact NAHQ for pricing and details.

Lean Safety

Day one of this two-day workshop will be held in a classroom. On day two, the attendees will be formed into safety kaizen teams and will work on the shop floor (gemba). Workshop exercises may include:
• Process mapping of safety processes
• Creating an employee safety engagement survey
• Developing a form to gather safety improvement ideas
• Outlining safety standard work for managers

Host company Siemens’ (Glasgow, DE site) has been progressing its lean journey since 2001 and prioritizes employee safety as a core value, reflected in its ongoing Zero Harm Culture initiative.

This Skills to Coach for Development workshop will help you coach others on their problem-solving thinking. First, you will discover techniques for increasing your awareness of the coachee and yourself as two people engaged in a purposeful discussion. Second, you will learn ways to pick up on where the coachee is in his or her problem-solving thinking and ask questions to help them look more deeply or move ahead as needed. Together these skills will greatly improve your effectiveness in helping others to develop their PDCA problem-solving thinking.

If you have questions about the workshop, call LEI at (617) 871-2900 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm (Eastern) Monday—Friday, or send an email to registrar@lean.org.

ANSI World Standards Week: Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2015

Schedule of events here: http://www.ansi.org/meetings_events/wsw15/wsw.aspx?menuid=8#schedule

Register here: https://eseries.ansi.org/source/Events/Event.cfm?EVENT=WSWeek_15