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A3R Business Savvy
Key Outcomes:
Program Elements:
6 full day learning sessions
5 hours individual coaching per participant
Behavioral Assessment with 30 page detail report
Leadership Assessment 360 Tool
Between session homework with built in accountabilities ( books and articles included)
On-line resource for posting homework and maintaining dialogue with facilitator and peers
Capstone project. Each participant is required to demonstrate how they have created value with the new learning and create a tool or resources that continues to put principles into action.
Course Required Reading:
Building a Bridge as You Walk Over
Breakthrough Companies
The Ultimate Question
The Six Thinking Hats
Getting the Right Things Done
Three HBR Articles supporting themes
Audio Recording: Leadership vs. Stewardship by Block
Assessments:
DiSC
Now Discover Your Strengths
Coaching Skills Inventory
Discussion about perception vs. reality
Course context & key objectives outlined
Leadership Skill Assessment
Adaptive Confidence / Grounded Vision
Video on Focus and Personal Vision
Holistic picture of vitality and mental fitness
Designing a personal long view
Leveraging skills to support the vision
Personal capacity planning – time/focus management
Class focus presented in project plan & key deliverables
Leadership Focus: modeling the way
Getting the right things done- A3
Discussion on how do your daily activities support cell/section A3 and company A3—how to make those connections more explicit
What is the best use of your time?
Fostering compliance vs. commitment
Leadership Focus: enabling others to act
Six Thinking Hats-Curiosity vs. Self Righteousness
Discussion on what makes “buy-in” so difficult?
How to accelerate “passing the ball” and deference
Leadership Focus: inspiring a shared vision
Personal accountability and leading teams that feel a sense of pride in
accomplishment
Holding people accountable
Leadership Focus: challenging the process
Task: Create a product that integrates lean leadership & lean thinking that adds value to the organization
Audience: The first audience will be the classmates in Series 1 Lean Leadership.
Some of you will be asked to present your product to the entire company at a company meeting.
Purpose: The objective is that you will transform this experience into a means to educate and lead the entire company.
You and a partner will develop a product that enhances the performance of your cell.
You will have 1 hour to give a presentation that covers:
Most significant key learnings in this course
Concept of product
Application of product with any key performance indicators
Product may be:
A resource developed to support collaboration & communication among workers
A tool that drives efficiency and productivity
A framework or method that supports lean implementation
A training concept or device that expedites the lean learning curve
Your Product must be SMART: specific, measurable, action-oriented, include results, time-delimited.