Kent State's Lean Practitioner Certifications

Become a Change Agent Creating Measurable Results.

Do you want to lead change initiatives within your organization in order to achieve increased efficiency, productivity and profitability? Lean tools can be applied to every process and industry. In this intensive one-week program you will learn actual applications, not just concepts, of Lean tools and techniques from a combination of classroom instruction and participation, group activities and multiple hands-on simulations. You will also learn how to assemble effective Lean teams to identify and eliminate waste in your key processes. You will have the opportunity to implement an action plan for your organization’s Lean initiative. Experienced Kent State subject matter experts will guide you through the transformation process to ensure measurable impact. Upon completion of the program, you will be certified as a Kent State Lean Practitioner. Who should attend? Key candidates for Kent State’s Lean Practitioner training and certification are quality technicians, supervisors, managers, continual improvement staff, team leaders, process and industrial engineers, personnel responsible for process improvement or any employee who wants to improve the effectiveness of a process within an organization.

Lean Practitioner Certification for Manufacturing
Facilitators: John Novak and John Potkalitsky

Lean is a systematic approach to continually identify and eliminate wasteful activities. The result is improved profitability and increased competitiveness. This training and certification provides you with a practical understanding of the tools in the Lean toolbox and how each can be applied in your workplace to eliminate waste. You will learn how Lean supports continual improvement resulting in a lower cost to produce products and deliver services. You will learn step-by-step methodologies for implementing Lean within your organization and explore the challenges and obstacles that you, as a change agent, may have to overcome. As part of the program you will prepare an action plan for implementing the Lean concepts to a project. Upon completion of the program you will be certified as a Kent State Lean Practitioner.

• Pre-course online review – an online review of the Lean tools
• Introduction to continual improvement and Lean
• Lean Tools and their application in the workplace
• Implementing Lean in your organization
• Action planning your project (create an action plan for your initiatives)

Monday through Friday, Nov. 16 - 20, 2009; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – $1,995.
Register Online or call Corianne at 330-672-8698 for personal registration service.

Lean Office Practitioner Certification for Service, Health Care and Transactional Processes
Facilitators: John Novak and John Potkalitsky

Lean is not just for manufacturing anymore! This certification is designed for those who will drive the implementation of Lean throughout the organization. Enormous amounts of waste exist in office and service environments. Delays, bottlenecks, errors, redundancy and work-arounds are very common. Non-value-added work can be as high as 70 percent. In this one-week program, you will learn how to use Lean concepts to identify and eliminate waste within your office’s transactional and administrative processes. Apply Lean tools such as 5S, Standardized Work and Value Stream Mapping to help create a culture of continual improvement in your organization. Develop an action plan to determine how you will implement Lean Office in your organization. Upon completion of the program you will be certified as a Kent State Lean Practitioner.

• Pre-course online review – an online review of the Lean tools
• Introduction to continual improvement and Lean
• Lean office tools and their application in the workplace
• Implementing Lean in your organization
• Action planning your project (create an action plan for your initiatives)

Monday through Friday, April 26 – 30, 2010; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – $1,995
Register Online or call Corianne at 330-672-8698 for personal registration service.

For more information, contact Corianne Kocarek, program coordinator, Corporate and Community Services, at 330-672-8698 or ckocarek@kent.edu.