FIRST QUARTER Week 1 - Working Smarter Training Challenge Introduction Why we are involved in the Working Smarter Training Challenge How the Working Smarter Training Challenge will be conducted each week What will be expected out of you as an individual participating in the program Week 2 - What Is Lean? Where the concept of LEAN originated. Several definitions of LEAN How those definitions will apply to what we want to accomplish in WORKING SMARTER Week 3 - Soft on the People . . . Hard on the Process What it means to give people in the company the opportunity, the respect and the recognition to improve and WORK SMARTER. We understand what is needed to clearly define and communicate systems, allowing us to look for ways to improve them. We have established the foundation to next week's session on PROCESS MAPPING. Week 4 - Introduction to Process Maps The importance of examining the details of a process and putting it into a visual format, A PROCESS MAP, in order to analyze it and improve upon it. The difference between CURRENT STATE and FUTURE STATE of a process or system. Teams are established to conduct our first TEAM EXERCISE next week when we create several process maps based off of your lists. Week 5 - Team Exercise - Drawing a Process Map Week 6 - Process Map Review and Discussion Why and how process maps are an effective tool to understanding how a process works and where it can be improved Several of our company processes in their current state as presented by the groups or individuals The next step toward improving the process from a current state today to where we would see more value and less waste from this process in the future Week 7 - Builders, Destroyers and Working Smarter Realize we have a choice of attitudes each day. Understand a destroyer attitude and how to minimize its impact. Understand a builder attitude and how to build on it to move forward. Week 8 - Introduction to the 7 Types of Waste Learn the 7 types of waste as identified and used by Ariens Company in their Lean Management Process. Explore the examples you selected from the homework and identify which types of waste they are. Identify which types of waste occur most in our departments or company. Week 9 - Team Exercise - Identifying Waste in Your Process Map The teams are able to take a focused and serious approach to reviewing their past process maps. We have labeled and identified as many areas of waste as possible on the map. We have put some time estimates together to get an estimated time waste that your list of wastes in the process map is causing. Week 10 - The Thrival Campaign Why the Thrival Campaign is an effective tool and the steps in completing one We do a Thrival Campaign on a test subject. How the Thrival Campaign will be applied to what we have accomplished to date with the Process Map and the identified waste Week 11 - Team Exercise - Drive Out the Waste The teams create a plan that will address and begin to make a difference over the next week in one of the areas identified in their lists of waste in the Process Map. Emphasize that the Thrival Campaign is to be completed over the next week so they must pick a project that can be accomplished in the short term. Each team has written a Thrival Campaign with whos and whens to be followed this next week. The session is closing with each of the teams understanding the next step in the Thrival Campaign and prepared to work the plan this week. Week 12 - Results from the Thrival Campaign Appreciate the efforts and results that everyone put in the past week. Why possibly no results were accomplished by a team or a process and to use it as a learning experience to reduce the likelihood that it will happen again How we can sustain the results we have achieved the past week Week 13 - First Quarter Review and What Is Ahead The concepts we have learned in our first 13 weeks Have an update on how everyone is proceeding on their Thrival Campaign What is coming up in quarters 2, 3 and 4 SECOND QUARTER Week 14 - Culture - People - Process A definition of the concepts . . . CULTURE-PEOPLE-PROCESS How strong we are as a company in these areas What the WORKING SMARTER TRAINING CHALLENGE will do to STRENGTHEN us in these areas Week 15 - The Ariens Oval The concepts of the Ariens Oval Establish the criteria on what to observe. Set some guidelines on how to observe. Week 16 - What Did You Observe? As a group, you can determine some of the commonalities in your observations over the past week. Determine if these commonalities are adding value or creating waste. Discuss how the concept, the ARIENS OVAL, will be able to help each of us work smarter on a daily basis. Week 17 - Intro to 5S A definition and the potential of 5S as a tool for us to work smarter Get practical insight into how using 5S really does work. Each of the 5S's and how we will be using them over the next several weeks in the training sessions Week 18 - Sort The importance of taking this first step. . . As a team we create a "STANDARD WORK" for the SORT PROCESS. Some potential areas for us to get started on as a company Week 19 - Set in Order and Shine What we are able to gain in the Shine step What we are able to gain in the Set in Order step What we will accomplish in next week's Group Exercise Week 20 - Team Exercise - Set in Order The current situation of the area you are focusing on based on your homework sketches/maps A new map is created by the team on how the area can be SET IN ORDER to work more efficiently. How your new map can be implemented Week 21 - Standardize - Introduction to Standard Work What STANDARD WORK is and why it is so important to WORKING SMARTER How each person becomes responsible for understanding and following the Standard Work for their position and tasks How Standard Work will help to implement the Set in Order plan created last week. Week 22 - Team Exercise - Standard Work Continued emphasis of the importance of Standard Work A Standard Work is created to implement the plan this week The team is prepared to go to work on implementing their Set in Order plan. Week 23 - Sustain The key elements of SUSTAIN and the importance of this 5th S How Ariens uses the audit to sustain the progress they have made with the 5S's Discuss how the key elements of SUSTAIN will assist in your SET IN ORDER plan continuing. Week 24 - Sustain Visuals are created to help SUSTAIN the program implemented in your area. A training session is created to train the employees on how to sustain the plan you implemented. Everyone has the responsibility and ability to create the plan to SUSTAIN any program implemented. Week 25 - Choice Points How even the smallest of choices could have a positive or negative impact on the WORKING SMARTER PROGRAM How even the smallest of choices could have a positive or negative impact on our careers and future How to make the best choice in every situation we are in so that the result is a positive one Week 26 - First-Half Review and Celebration The key concepts of WORKING SMARTER that have helped the most over the first half Where we are going in the SECOND HALF and opportunities to continue to improve the process . . . How you feel you have contributed and made improvements personally in the first half?