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• Amway VMS Learning Event

  • When
    Thursday, October 05, 2017
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Amway, 7575 Fulton Street East Ada, MI 49355
  • Spaces left
    49
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Background:

  To share our experience and learn from others Amway will host a Michigan Lean Consortium Lean education event on Thursday, October 5th. The topic is “How to develop and sustain the use of visual management systems in knowledge based work.” This session would include a short presentation on why Amway decided to pursue Visual Management, high-level approach, multiple ‘go sees’ of active VMS boards in the office area (ITM and others) and end with a discussion on skill building and sustainability.

  Learning Objectives: (At the end of the session participants will be able to…)

  • List 3 benefits teams achieve when using VMS and the behaviors that support them
    
  • Describe the two underlying concepts that support VMS – The Visual Management Triangle and Make Work Visible, Problems Visible and Solve Problems
  • Explain Amway’s program for developing skilled coaches and sustaining VMS
    

  
  

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• Lean Application

  • When
    Friday, October 06, 2017
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Sparrow Health Science Pavilion 2900 Hannah Boulevard East Lansing, MI 48823
  • Spaces left
    20
  • Registered
    9 registrants

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  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  Time for sessions 1-4 is 8:30am – 4:30pm, Testing Day Time TBD. 

  NOTE: Membership fee is $90 and if you become a member today or by the event you only pay the member registration fee of $60 for this event.
  

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• Healthcare Kata

  • When
    Friday, October 27, 2017
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:15 PM
  • Location
    Mercy Health Muskegon Hackley Campus 1700 Clinton St, Muskegon, MI 49442
  • Spaces left
    45
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  Michigan Lean Consortium, Mercy Health Muskegon, Mercy Health St. Mary’ have partnered to provide a Healthcare Kata Practitioner training event on October 27, 2017 at Mercy Health Muskegon. Thank you to Mercy Muskegon for hosting this event! 
  

  Healthcare Kata Practitioners will share their experience building proficiency among kata learners and coaches and present their challenges and successes experienced in specific storyboards regarding the development of challenges, actual and target conditions, obstacle parking lots and PDCA Cycles. 

  Participants will understand the specific coaching behaviors and tactics that were used to overcome obstacles such as lack of learner interest, poor quality or infrequent experiments, challenges that don't include a business objective, lack of coaches, lack of clarifying questions from coaches, target conditions without a process map, etc.

  There will a breakout session where participants can choose:

  1. Kata Simulation: Hands-On Challenge: We will be working in small groups to learn the steps of the Improvement Kata and the Coaching Kata through the execution of a hands-on task.

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  2. Virtual Gemba: Watch a Kata coaching cycle in action. Two groups of coaches and learners from Mercy Health Muskegon will perform a real-time coaching cycle at their story board.

  The day will end with a Panel Q & A session. The Panel will consist of experienced KATA Practitioners from both Mercy Health and MLC.

  Click here for the tentative agenda to read more! Click to read session descriptions and more! 

  Agenda subject to change. 

  Note: Only those members who have paid their renewal membership invoice will be allowed to register as a member. Haven't received your invoice or not sure if your organization has renewed? Contact Lauren at coordinator@michiganlean.org
  

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• Bronze Prep Exam

  • When
    Friday, November 03, 2017
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Sparrow Health Science Pavilion 2900 Hannah Boulevard East Lansing, MI 48823
  • Spaces left
    25
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  You are responsible for paying for your own test fee. Refer to the SME Bronze webpage for current pricing. Click here. 
  

  Test Time TBD!

  
  

  
  

  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  

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