Lean Leadership
What is Lean Leadership?
Leading a fit, lean organization calls for specific skills and attitudes of its “lean leaders”.
A lean leader is:
- Passionate about being lean
- Disciplined and dedicated to improving processes
- Capable of managing projects
- Thinks lean
- Assumes ownership
- Develops effective relationships with supporting groups
How does Stanwick support you in introducing and reinforcing Lean Leadership?
- Assessing lean leadership within your leadership teams to identify all improvement opportunities:
- How does the lean leader create a “lean vision” and how is this vision deployed?
- How does the lean leader mobilize their organization?
- How does the lean leader promote their process thinking?
- How does the lean leader take on a role of a living example?
- How do they support their co-workers in implementing a lean organization?
- Training in lean leadership behavior, with a focus on standard work for lean leaders.
- Facilitating introduction sessions on 'lean leadership awareness' to create commitment from all leading staff.
- Coaching of internal consultants and change agents.
- Coaching of HR (to integrate Lean Leadership into performance management systems).
- Individual coaching of lean leaders.
