Continuous Improvement Masterclasses
A series of short courses to deepen your continuous improvement skills
Fun and practical short courses
Practical Tools to use in your day job
Drive out inefficiency and complexity
Build your CI skills and capability
Short courses to refresh and top-up your Continuous Improvement skills.
- Practical 5S – learn how to make 5S really work
- Value Stream Mapping – unlock the potential for lean flow in your processes
- Process Data Skills with Excel – use process data correctly and effectively
- Facilitating Improvement Workshops – increase your confidence and impact
- Lean Presentations – make your presentations flow and add-value
- Root Cause Analysis – equip your colleagues with the approach, tools and mindset
All of these short Continuous Improvement courses are currently being delivered remotely. Please give us a call if you would like to arrange for your team to attend a remote class.
We are using the latest online technologies, and will ensure an interactive, lively learning experience delivered by one of our team – a Catalyst MBB… who will share their expertise and insights to enable your proficiency and confidence in using these essential CI skills. Contact us for more information.
Root Cause Analysis
This is an intensive one-day training workshop programme to deepen your understanding around problem solving, specifically focussing on Root Cause Analysis. This workshop based session includes practical team based tools to facilitate effective execution in the organisation.
Detailed delegate materials will be provided and reinforced by a number of interactive team based exercises to bring the concepts to life.
Who should attend: This training is suitable for managers, process owners and anyone who has responsibility for process performance. It would be a useful refresher for Yellow and Green Belts.
Days: 1
CPD Points: 8
Date: Contact us for more information.
Testimonials:
“Really excellent session, tailored to our need. Looking forward to embedding this in our business.” – Matt (Bolton Council)
“I really enjoyed the course and have a number of ideas, where before I had no idea how to proceed.” – Michelle Sullivan (Covidien)
About the trainer
Helen Smith is a highly experienced Lean Six Sigma consultant and trainer. Process root cause analysis is one of her core skills which she is called upon to carry out for our clients on a frequent basis. She delivers this course regularly and provides follow-up coaching support for the delegates.
Accelerating Transformational Change
This intensive 1-day workshop introduces the latest thinking for all types of change, but with a particular focus on accelerated transformation in terms of culture change, leadership behaviours, and structures and systems which enable that change to be effective, rapid and sustainable.
Who should attend: This training workshop is suitable for executive and change/transformation leaders and sponsors.
Days: 1
CPD Points: 8
Date: Contact us for more information.
About the trainer
Chris Merriman has many years’ experience in both applying and teaching Value Stream Mapping and Lean Thinking in the workplace. Chris will not only teach you to how to use these tools but also the factors behind making them successful.
Practical 5S
Whether you’ve never tried it before or you have tried it and learned that it’s not quite as easy as it looks, this workshop will give you the practical knowledge to make 5S successful.
Who should attend: Managers, supervisors/team leaders, continuous improvement practitioners
Days: 1
CPD Points: 8
Date: Contact us for more information.
About the trainer
Mark Jones is a highly experienced Lean Expert who has real experience of implementing and training the 5S technique across a wide variety of organisations.
Value Stream Mapping
This is a comprehensive course covering VSM from the construction of the Current State Map through to the achievement of the Future State. A broad suite of associated Lean techniques are taught along with the practicalities of facilitating VSM workshops in your organisation.
Who should attend: Green and Black Belts, Lean Practitioners, Process Owners
Days: 2
CPD Points: 16
Date: Contact us for more information.
About the trainer
Chris Merriman has many years’ experience in both applying and teaching Value Stream Mapping and Lean Thinking in the workplace. Chris will not only teach you to how to use these tools but also the factors behind making them successful.
Facilitating Improvement Workshops
This is a hands-on course to help you approach improvement workshops with confidence and to make them enjoyable and effective. It covers all the facilitator needs to know and do from defining objectives through to post-workshop actions and there will be lots of opportunity to practise and get feedback in a safe environment.
Who should attend: Black, Green and Yellow Belts, Lean Practitioners, any Continuous Improvement practitioner
Days: 1
CPD Points: 8
Date: Contact us for more information.
Testimonials:
“The training content was great. It was flexible and all targeted and useful. Mark was a brilliant trainer and was very engaging” – Ellie Moir (MHCLG)
“Good energy – kept focus and directed attention as and where it was needed. There was a very good mix of materials and asked what we wanted to prioritise” – Arron Briddick (PPG)
About the trainer
Mark Jones: As a professional Lean Six Sigma consultant, facilitating improvement workshops across Catalyst’s diverse customer network is a day-to-day activity for Mark. He also trains and coaches others to improve their ability and effectiveness.
Process Data Skills using Excel
This course teaches the principles and practice of using process data properly but without the need for serious statistics or special statistics software. The course teaches how to use Excel to generate simple graphs (with a little help from the SPC Plus software which is included in the price) to turn data into useful information which enables data-driven decision making in the workplace. It will build your capability and confidence in this area.
Who should attend: Green and Yellow Belts, Lean Practitioners, Operational Managers, Business Analysis’s. You probably work in a transactional environment or in a transactional role. If you have a technical or engineering role, it is more likely that you will required Advanced Green Belt or Black Belt training using statistics software such as Minitab.
Days: 2
CPD Points: 16
Date: Contact us for more information.
Testimonials:
“Perfect level, would consider further training on this subject with Moore.” – Jaime Osborne (CooperVision)
About the trainer
Moore Allison is an expert trainer and practitioner in the areas of measuring process performance and process data analysis. He is an advocate of using data more widely in operations and improvement projects but also of the KISS philosophy – Keep it Simple Statistically!
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