Lean Foundations Workshop
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Struggling with bottlenecks, rework, or wasted time in your processes? You’re not alone; process inefficiencies cost companies up to 30% of their revenue each year.
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$1,195.00
Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM America/Chicago- VILT
The Lean Foundations Workshop gives you the tools to change that. In just two days, you’ll go beyond theory and dive into real-world Lean techniques through an immersive Kaizen simulation. You’ll learn how to identify the root causes of inefficiency, eliminate waste, and boost the flow of value across any process, whether in operations, manufacturing, healthcare, or office workflows.
Led by expert instructors, this hands-on workshop introduces powerful tools like 5S, value stream mapping, and root cause analysis. You’ll leave with a practical Lean toolkit and a customized action plan to start improving processes immediately. Plus, you’ll earn 19.5 PDUs to help maintain your professional credentials.
After completing this course, participants will be able to define value from the customer’s perspective, map value streams, quantify flow, and remove waste using proven Lean tools and behaviors. Graduates return ready to facilitate improvements, sustain gains, and build momentum for a Lean culture. Explain Lean principles and distinguish value-add vs. non–value-add work Create current- and future-state value stream maps to visualize flow Measure and interpret takt time, cycle time, lead time, WIP, and throughput Identify and reduce the eight wastes (muda), using 5 Whys and cause-and-effect Apply 5S, visual management, standard work, and basic Kanban/WIP limits Plan and facilitate a focused Kaizen/PDCA improvement effort and sustain resultsWho should attend Lean Foundations Workshop Course
Operations managers, team leads, supervisors, process/continuous improvement specialists, manufacturing and production personnel, service delivery leaders, business analysts, and project managers who need a practical foundation in Lean methods to drive measurable performance gains.
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Operations managers, team leads, supervisors, process/continuous improvement specialists, manufacturing and production personnel, service delivery leaders, business analysts, and project managers seeking a practical foundation in Lean methods to drive measurable performance improvements.
There are no formal prerequisites. However, familiarity with your organization’s processes and metrics is helpful for applying the concepts effectively.
Participants will learn to distinguish value-add from non-value-add work, create current- and future-state value stream maps, measure metrics like takt time and cycle time, reduce the eight wastes using tools like 5 Whys, and apply 5S, standard work, and Kanban/WIP limits.
The course covers Lean principles and mindset, value stream mapping and core metrics, waste identification and elimination, flow/pull and work design, and quality at the source with visual management, culminating in facilitating Kaizen/PDCA improvement efforts.
Participants will learn to define customer value, map value streams, quantify flow, and remove waste using Lean tools, enabling them to facilitate improvements, sustain gains, and build a Lean culture within their organization.