Leadership Development Programs
Executive Leadership
Systems Thinking Approach to Executive Leadership | In this certificate program, leaders will explore cultural development to sustain organizational values based on critical problem solving. Using a comprehensive and integrated educational approach that includes technical, functional, and soft skills, the Systems Thinking Approach to Executive Leadership certificate will create a level of employee engagement, which will be a driver in the recruitment, and retention of the workforce.
Strategic Alignment | Participants will create a strategy deployment plan that gets results by using the the Hoshin Kanri strategy planning method. Hoshin Kanri provides a way for creating a comprehensive communication system between all levels of employees, keeping everyone focused on meeting the organization’s goals.
Mid-level and Supervisor Leadership
Leadership and Supervision Program | This program offers a highly individualized, practical approach to leadership. Course participants will focus on interpersonal skills, quality, and change implementation. This program provides an individualized, practical, "real-world," approach to supervisory leadership.
Vital Learning Essential Skills Of Leadership | This training course is the preliminary step in developing successful supervisors, team leaders and managers. Essential Skills Of Leadership™ training teaches managers and team leaders contemporary techniques for effective leadership, which improves their performance and increases the productivity of both the team and the organization.
Lean Leader Series | Lean is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and creating flow within an organization to improve overall customer value. This series of classes teaches not only the tools of lean, but also offers proven leadership techniques for implementing lean in your organization, managing culture change, and developing continuous improvement engagement throughout your workforce.
Training Within Industry (TWI) | TWI is a Leadership Development Program designed specifically to provide supervisors and team leaders the ability to lead and instruct employees and improve processes. Its proven methods generate cooperation and positive employee relations, teach supervisors how to quickly and correctly train employees, establish and maintain standardized work, sustain continuous improvement, and create a safe work environment.
Toyota Kata | This daily management practice results in a culture that is focused on daily improvement. There are two key elements of Toyota Kata; the Improvement Kata, and the Coaching Kata. The Improvement Kata is the daily routine of practicing rapid PDCA cycles to continuously improve a process from its current state toward a target condition. The Coaching Kata is the daily routine for teaching the Improvement Kata thinking pattern to sustain continuous improvement.
Fundamentals of Leadership - Customize Your Plan | Taught by industry leaders, experienced coaches and management professionals, the Fundamentals of Leadership program provides a platform for participants to explore leadership and management topics in an interactive format using an individualized, practical, real-world, approach to training.
Value Stream Mapping | Value stream mapping focuses improvement efforts and pinpoints solutions that will give the most value for money, time and energy. Value stream mapping creates a material and information flow map of a product family. A typical value stream includes customer orders entering the production control schedule, raw materials entering the facility, manufacturing processes and finished goods leaving the shipping dock.
Line level Leadership
Vital Learning Essential Skills Of Leadership | This training course is the preliminary step in developing successful supervisors, team leaders and managers. Essential Skills Of Leadership™ training teaches managers and team leaders contemporary techniques for effective leadership, which improves their performance and increases the productivity of both the team and the organization.
Lean Leader Series | Lean is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and creating flow within an organization to improve overall customer value. This series of classes teaches not only the tools of lean, but also offers proven leadership techniques for implementing lean in your organization, managing culture change, and developing continuous improvement engagement throughout your workforce.
Toyota Kata | This daily management practice results in a culture that is focused on daily improvement. There are two key elements of Toyota Kata; the Improvement Kata, and the Coaching Kata. The Improvement Kata is the daily routine of practicing rapid PDCA cycles to continuously improve a process from its current state toward a target condition. The Coaching Kata is the daily routine for teaching the Improvement Kata thinking pattern to sustain continuous improvement.
Training Within Industry (TWI) | TWI is a Leadership Development Program designed specifically to provide supervisors and team leaders the ability to lead and instruct employees and improve processes. Its proven methods generate cooperation and positive employee relations, teach supervisors how to quickly and correctly train employees, establish and maintain standardized work, sustain continuous improvement, and create a safe work environment.
Fundamentals of Leadership - Customize Your Plan | Taught by industry leaders, experienced coaches and management professionals, the Fundamentals of Leadership program provides a platform for participants to explore leadership and management topics in an interactive format using an individualized, practical, real-world, approach to training.
Frontline Staff Leadership
Frontline Staff Enhancement Training | Frontline Staff Enhancement Training is focused on helping you condition your team to ensure that everyone can become a contributor. By honing in on skills that improve communication and cooperation, you can increase productivity, reduce errors and create an environment that fosters creativity.
Human Resources Leadership
Smart Talent Systems | Smart Talent Systems is a systems approach to improving your company’s ability to attract, quickly onboard and engage new employees, and upskill your entire workforce with highly effective Structured on the Job Training, dramatically reducing training time. We help you add structure, strategy and proven tactics to every step of your talent development process, from recruiting and hiring to onboarding and on the job training and extending all the way to the creation of career ladders and succession plans.
Environmental, Health, and Safety Leadership
EHS Leadership Program | If you are a new EHS supervisor or recently been reassigned to supervise your company’s EHS programs, we offer a multi-day training program to help you develop important technical and people skills. This training program will also help if you want to establish a competency baseline for multiple employees.