5S, Kaizen, and Barriers to Lean Online Courses

If you’re planning to implement Lean in you company but don’t know exactly where to start, look no further: the expert team of üttana has developed a series of courses to help you in all stages of your lean journey, from understanding the principles and concepts to implementing tools and techniques and keeping your employees motivated and engaged.

Here are a few 5S and Kaizen workplace essential courses available at uttana that you might find interesting:

· Lean Fundamentals: an overview of basic principles of lean manufacturing; learn about the 7 Wastes, the Push and Pull Systems, the Added-Value and Non Added-Value techniques and much more.

· Introduction: this course provides an overview of the 5S, what it stands for and why it’s so vital to lean; you’ll learn how to implement it and create a sustainable business.

· Methodology: understand in-depth about each S (Sort, Set in Order/Straighten, Shine/Sweep, Standardize, and Sustain), the methodology behind each concept, its philosophy, how and where to apply them.

· The Lean Committee: a Lean Committee is responsible for supporting ongoing implementations; it’s the team that will set the goals and methodologies for the company and oversee their application throughout the year. You’ll learn how to prepare all this and more with this course.

· Kaizen Event Charter and Tracking: Kaizen events are fundamental to lean; in this course you’ll see how to plan, evaluate, and follow through with improvement activities; learn how to fill a Kaizen event charter with pre-event items and post-event items, and keep your improvement well documented.

Unfortunately, implementing new workplace principles is not the smooth ride we all hope for, as problems and obstacles are to be expected. With that in mind, üttana designed a couple of Barriers to Lean Courses that tackle the situations you’re most likely to encounter:

· Changing Minds: this course provides methods to help you convince your more resistant employees to adhere to the Lean principles; transform this barrier into an improvement exercise as you learn how to overcome objections to Lean and how interpersonal efforts are a great part of a smooth implementation.

· Building Support for Lean Efforts: learn ways to explain and engage workers in Lean by building trust and support with the people with whom you work; understand the psychological and interpersonal sides of Lean and how they are key factors for a successful implementation.

All the courses offered by üttana are online, so you can study whenever and whatever your schedule allows; with each course you’ll receive a video explaining the discussed topic in-depth, a PDF with the transcriptions for your review, a list of terms and definitions, a PowerPoint presentation to enhance your learning, images to be used freely and you’re rewarded a badge upon successful completion of the course. Besides those described here, at uttana you’ll find a variety of courses on all subjects related to Lean and Kaizen, for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. So go to uttana and start your journey into lean expertise now!