Weekly Lessons by Quarters
This sequential set of lessons plans emphasizes LEAN Concepts which when put into practice, helps managers
and employees work smarter, become efficient and stay energized.
Week 1 Working Smarter Training Challenge Introduction
Week 2 What Is Lean?
Week 3 Soft on the People ... Hard on the Process!
Week 4 Introduction to Process Maps
Week 5 Team Exercise – Drawing a Process Map
Week 6 Process Map Review and Discussion
Week 7 Builders, Destroyers and Working Smarter
Week 8 Introduction to the 7 Types of Waste
Week 9 Team Exercise - Identifying Waste in Your Process Map
Week 10 The Thrival Campaign
Week 11 Team Exercise – Drive Out the Waste
Week 12 Results from the Thrival Campaign
Week 13 First Quarter Review and What Is Ahead
Week 14 Culture-People-Process
Week 15 The Ariens Oval
Week 16 What Did You OBSERVE?
Week 17 Introduction to the 5S Process
Week 18 Sort
Week 19 Set in Order & Shine
Week 20 Team Exercise – Set in Order
Week 21 Standardize (Introduction to Standard Work)
Week 22 Team Exercise - Standard Work
Week 23 Sustain Introduction
Week 24 Team Exercise – Sustain
Week 25 Choice Points
Week 26 First Half Review and Celebration
Week 27 Introduction to Ariens 15 Principles
Week 28 Our Culture Principles
Week 29 Our People Principles
Week 30 Our Process Principles
Week 31 Finalizing the Principles
Week 32 Working Smarter in My Position 1
Week 33 The Five Lean Principles
Week 34 Value and Value Stream
Week 35 Working Smarter in My Position 2
Week 36 Flow - Pull - Perfection
Week 37 Spaghetti Diagram
Week 38 Working Smarter in My Position 3
Week 39 A Celebration of 39 Weeks
Week 40 The Mystical, Magical Kaizen Event
Week 41 Keeping Score and Getting Visual
Week 42 PLAN – DO – CHECK - ACT
Week 43 Working Smarter Kaizen event Step 1
Week 44 Working Smarter Kaizen event Step 2
Week 45 Working Smarter Kaizen event Step 3
Week 46 Working Smarter Kaizen event Step 4
Week 47 Working Smarter Kaizen event Step 5
Week 48 Another look at the Process Maps
Week 49 Preparing for the Working Smarter Kaizen Event
Week 50 The Working Smarter Kaizen Event
Week 51 What is Next
Week 52 52-Week Celebration to Working Smarter