Continual Improvement Proficiency for Business Leaders

Learn how to lead your organization on the journey of improvement

Created by: Dr. Gregory H. Watson
Executive Consultant

Created by: Jukka-Matti Turtiainen
Producer

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the nature of organizational issues and how to lead organization-wide actions for continual improvement.
• Act as an effective participant and project team member on cross-functional improvement activities.
• Apply structured problem-solving concepts and principles in improvement projects within your own work area.
• Apply the principles of statistical thinking, process analysis, and systems engineering in pursuit of improvement actions.
• Learn how to read and interpret the basic graphical tools of lean and statistical process analysis for work improvement.
• Communicate the organization’s strategy to assure continual improvement of its work activities and results.
• Launch an improvement project that you will supervise.

Requirements

• There are no requirements for this course. Having the possibility to do the activities together with your management team gives the biggest benefits.

Target audience

• People serving in any executive or leadership function
• Small business owners
• Functional managers in cross-functional organization
• Business leaders of administration and operations
• Chief quality officers and directors of the quality function
• Quality professionals who coach business leaders
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts
• Business and operations excellence leaders
• Professionals interested in improving organizations