Communicate the reasoning behind waste reduction and productivity, not only the conclusion.
Leading Operational Waste Reduction and Productivity Improvement Programmes
A working programme in waste reduction and productivity for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most failures in waste reduction and productivity trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. The hardest part of reduction and productivity is rarely deciding — it is holding the decision when it becomes unpopular. Applied research in organisational leadership consistently shows that early structure around this aspect of organisational leadership reduces downstream rework. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in waste reduction and productivity, not around theory headings. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the practice within organisational leadership. Buying a tool rarely fixes reduction and productivity; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants test their assumptions about waste reduction and productivity against scenarios designed to break weak ones. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to reduction and productivity in an order their organisation can absorb. The final module sets out how progress on this area of organisational leadership will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Handle the trade-offs in reduction and productivity between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Verify that improvements to waste reduction and productivity have held six months after they were introduced.
Delegate responsibility for reduction and productivity without losing sight of the outcome.
Align waste reduction and productivity with the wider objectives of the management team rather than optimising it in isolation.
Review your own performance on reduction and productivity as rigorously as you review others'.
Align the incentives of different functions so waste reduction and productivity is not quietly sabotaged.
Who Should Attend
Founders and owner-managers formalising waste reduction and productivity as the organisation grows.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over reduction and productivity.
Newly promoted managers taking on waste reduction and productivity for the first time.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting reduction and productivity.
Managers of geographically distributed teams handling waste reduction and productivity.
Consultants coaching leadership teams on reduction and productivity.
Course Modules
Waste reduction and productivity: conflict, politics and informal power
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the room before proposing waste reduction and productivity
- Prepare how you will respond when waste reduction and productivity is challenged publicly.
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on reduction and productivity.
- Decide the point at which you would escalate waste reduction and productivity.
- Check that records of reduction and productivity answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Moving reduction and productivity through people who do not report to you
- Identify the data already collected that bears on waste reduction and productivity.
- Rank the weaknesses in reduction and productivity by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for waste reduction and productivity.
- Agree the standard on reduction and productivity and confirm it applies to everyone.
Reduction and productivity: building the bench and letting go
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing reduction and productivity before relying on it
- Estimate the resource waste reduction and productivity requires to run as designed.
- Identify the conversation about reduction and productivity you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Set the review point at which waste reduction and productivity will be reconsidered.
- Build the internal briefing that explains reduction and productivity to those affected.
Session 2Reviewing reduction and productivity when nothing has gone wrong
- Test whether the team can explain waste reduction and productivity in their own words.
- Map the handovers in reduction and productivity between functions and secure them.
- Assess the workload waste reduction and productivity adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Set out how exceptions to reduction and productivity are requested and approved.
Reduction and productivity: setting direction people can act on
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Saying the thing about reduction and productivity that nobody wants to say
- Verify six months later that changes to waste reduction and productivity have held.
- Define acceptance criteria for reduction and productivity in advance.
- Review a past decision on waste reduction and productivity and state honestly what you would change.
- Benchmark the organisation's reduction and productivity against comparable operations.
Session 2Holding the line on waste reduction and productivity when it costs you
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on waste reduction and productivity went unnoticed.
- Identify which function can quietly block reduction and productivity and address it directly.
- State the outcome expected from waste reduction and productivity in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Identify single points of dependency in reduction and productivity and reduce them.
Reduction and productivity: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving reduction and productivity from approval to execution
- Anticipate the objections waste reduction and productivity will raise and prepare the answers.
- Prepare the summary of reduction and productivity that senior management will read.
- Review whether waste reduction and productivity is aligned with the objectives of the management team.
- Confirm that the people affected by reduction and productivity heard it from you first.
Session 2The meeting that finally unblocks reduction and productivity
- Name the person accountable for each part of waste reduction and productivity, not the committee.
- Agree the smallest change to reduction and productivity that would be visibly useful.
- Set the decision rights on waste reduction and productivity: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
- Test the procedure for reduction and productivity against a realistic scenario.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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