Need Transformation Within Your Organization?
George Trachilis
Certifying Harada Coaches Globally—Empowering Leaders to Achieve Excellence and Inspire Growth!
Ever since the Toyota Production System (TPS) became known to the rest of the world we have been in constant pursuit of achieving excellence. Focus on processes and lean tools have been the focal point in most of what we do. Perhaps one of the biggest misunderstandings in our deployment was the oversight in the development of its people, in this case its leadership. The questions (1) have we invested enough into our leaders and (2) how are we developing our people really resonates when you assess past deployments.
The Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels (DLLAL) program aims to address both of these questions. It offers a unique and highly effective approach to leadership development through application of Lean philosophy and values-based behavioral change. It also teaches and readies its leadership to become coaches which facilitates employee development and knowledge transfer.
DLLAL is developed around the Shingo prize winning book Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide, written by Jeffrey K. Liker with George Trachilis and published by Lean Leadership Institute. The coach-led program contains a 2-phase learning system which entails an in-depth discussion of Lean values and mindset, building to problem solving, its intrinsic connection to performance measurement and standardization, and then layering each of them to form a platform for the Leadership Development Model at the core of the program.