The Simple Routines of Leading Lean
Whilst savings can be achieved by spending lots of money, a small shift in our mindset is enough to realise significant improvements.
Get involved in the basic patterns we as leaders can do to lead and engage our teams in lean thinking.
To build upon last year’s talk “Looking through the Lens of Lean”. The talk will be sharing, exploring and teaching the basic habits and mind-set, leaders from many of the world’s most successful organisations have adopted to engage their teams in establishing a continuous learning and continuous improvement culture. An opportunity to take part in a different way of thinking and leading and make a difference in the lens industry.
Introductions, Mike Denison will share a couple of stories and experiences that may surprise and even shock you about how some of the top organisations think. Plus a reminder of the basics of lean thinking.
The talk will open the doors of the Five Leadership Drivers (Direction, Demonstration, Develop Discover and Deliver) that Lean and Agile organisations are using to engage their teams and advance an open, psychologically safe, continuous learning culture. This framework will share how these leaders think, why the inverted organisation is key, and the role of the leader in creating the conditions and structures for their teams to be successful in their work. Plus three questions leaders should be asking everyone, every day.
The talk will focus on Four Fundamentals of Leading a Lean and Agile Organisation. These four routines are critical in supporting how leaders engage with their teams and help create some of the structures for “Leading with Questions” a core lean leadership habit.
You will have the opportunity to practice and experience how to progress and enhance your questioning skills, turning closed questions into open thought provoking questions. Designing simple questioning patterns and routines you can easily apply to practice this skill back in your work, whether this is in manufacturing, procurement, design or sales.
Questions and Answers Session: Opportunity for the forum to go deeper into areas that are important to them.
How to quickly get started in adopting and practicing what you have learned and found insightful through the session.
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Mike Denison, Leanmentor – Managing Director & Mental Coach
Mike Denison is the founder and owner of Lean Mentor International & Cleareality Limited, he specialises in Executive Coaching, Business Strategy, Business Performance Improvement and New Leadership Thinking. His expertise is in helping companies improve productivity and performance, cut costs, systemise their management structures and turn round failing projects. His 20 year track record includes business transformation projects with blue chip organisations across the world and his motivational approach makes him an inspirational speaker with the ability to empower others through practical applied learning, mentoring and coaching.
Mike’s leadership and influencing expertise was established whilst working for Toyota and managing their UK engine machining department, where he was appointed as one of the first ‘Lean Leaders’ for Toyota’s UK engine manufacturing plant. He spent time in Nagoya, Japan, where he was personally trained and mentored in lean thinking by Toyota, the recognised founder of Lean Management and Lean Manufacturing.
Mike’s recent career has focused on transferring his knowledge and expertise to others, he was the Practice Head for the UK division of RWD Technologies, an international Business Performance Improvement Consultancy, before founding his own coaching and consultancy business.
Mike is a thought leader in lean management and systematic leadership and has not only delivered dramatic change and quantifiable results with his innovative programmes around the world, he has also inspired audiences with his engaging speaker style, by sharing his experience, his knowledge and his insights. Mike can provide valuable lessons that offer delegates practical tools and ideas to immediately take away.
His approach is to educate, inspire and entertain and his talks are always based on audience-specific aterial that is fresh, challenging and based on genuine research and experience that business audiences can relate to.