Lean Coaches to Gather in Long Beach, CA
The 3rd Annual Lean Coaching Summit provides a rich environment to explore your role as a lean coach. The Summit serves as an incubator to grow your coaching skills. Your skills grow through a series of Summit experiences that provide inspiration to take your further, knowledge to take you wider, and practical exercises to take you deeper. Join your peers as together the lean community seeks to move from a vision of coaching excellence to reality, resulting in everyone in your organization being touched by persistent and patient coaching.
Spotlight on Experimentation
This year’s Summit offers a special emphasis on the lean value of “experimentation.” Call it problem solving, learn by doing, or PDCA. Together we’ll explore the value of experiments – both for yourself as a lean coach and for the people you are developing.
Build Coaching Skills Through Experimentation
Experiments are needed even at the most basic level… How to become an effective coach? The answer to developing good coaching skills is to “learn by doing” (and failing). You must experiment! Fortunately, the Lean Coaching Summit provides the opportunity for you to practice what you learn with guidance from seasoned practitioners and coaches.
Developing a Culture of Experimentation
A workforce that embraces experimentation is one that relentlessly pursues improvement. So as coach, how do you develop skills and an appetite for experimentation in your workforce? The Summit will help you explore subject like:
How to coach others to…
- use organizational objectives to guide experimentation.
- seek frequent and rapid feedback by breaking “big ideas” into small, rapid learning loops.
- stay focused on problem solving and not blame.
- embrace experiments even when the path and outcomes aren’t quite clear
Many More Lean Coaching Topics to Explore
Learn and practice new skills as you and your peers learn from lean’s most experienced coaches. Most lean practitioners have heard the principle “Before we make product, we make people.” This embodies respect for people and describes the two responsibilities of every leader: Get work done and develop people. To accomplish these as separate activities is difficult, if not impossible. So the lean leader’s solution is to develop people through getting the work done. Easy to say, but what does it take? It takes coaching. And it takes a culture of coaching to be enterprise-wide.
- Questioning as a critical and learnable skill
- Coaches developing coaches
- Lean as a learning system
- Patterns of behavior and thinking that lead to a workforce of problem solvers
- How to assess your personal effectiveness as coach
- The role of servant leadership in the lean coaching model
- Tools for developing front-line supervisors
- Management practices that stifle lean thinking
The Lean Enterprise Institute and Lean Frontiers are again pleased to present the Lean Coaching Summit. Join lean champions from across North America and around the world to explore the critical role coaching plays in the successful lean enterprise. See you in Long Beach! See you at the Summit!
Who Should Attend?
- Lean project leaders
- Lean coordinators
- Lean change agents
- Continuous improvement executives
- Six Sigma black belts
- Staff experts
- Leaders, change agents, managers, lean experienced executives, service operations, healthcare, or non-profits
