At NWHPEC, we believe continuous learning extends beyond our own offerings. On this page, you’ll find a curated selection of webinars and conferences from trusted external sources that align with our mission to support your efforts to foster a culture of continuous improvement. These recommendations are chosen for their quality and relevance and to compliment our offerings.
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Webinar: How Coaching Unlocks Your Team's Potential - Nov 12th @9am
GREAT LEADERS BUILD GREAT LEARNERS: Great leaders don’t measure success by how much they do; they measure it by how much their teams grow. Yet too many of us are stuck in a cycle of scorekeeping instead of skill-building. In this webinar, we’ll explore simple coaching habits that create a culture of learning—so your team thrives, and you don’t have to do it all yourself.
People can outperform the expected, with better coaching. Give wings to your team.
Presenter: Tilo Schwarz
AME/GBMP Webinar: The future of work and work improvement - Nov 13th @1pm
In 2023, a group of seven not-for-profit organizations* from manufacturing, healthcare and academia created a groundbreaking collaboration, Future of People at Work (FPWork.org) to investigate the opportunities for a more eclectic and resilient approach to business process improvement. Bruce Hamilton, Senior Advisor from GBMP, one of the FPW partner organizations, will share initial efforts from the last two years to reach out to senior leaders and educators to harmonize diverse improvement service communities and place process improvement in proper context of generational and technological sea changes.*Toyota Production System Support Center, Lean Enterprise Institute, GBMP Consulting Group, Shingo Institute, Central Coast Lean, OSU COE, Catalysis.
Lean Global Connection: Virtual Conference - Nov 13-14th
A FREE, 24-hour virtual event bringing the lean community together worldwide with industry leaders and lean professionals from around the world.
Highlights:
🎤 Hear from lean leaders including Jim Womack and John Shook
🌍 Over 100 speakers sharing stories and insights
👥 Connect with 10,000+ attendees across industries and continents
Fresh ideas to accelerate your transformation journey in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare to hospitality
Don’t miss this unique chance to learn and connect with the global lean community.
Free registration here
AME Webinar: LPPD: Understand customers — The unique way lean enterprises study customers during product development - Nov 17th @1pm
Are you a practitioner that is pursuing lean principles in new product development or want to know more about this topic? This session is for YOU!
Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) is the New Product Development system originally utilized by Toyota Motor Corporation. Since the primary research by faculty at the University of Michigan in the 1990’s, the method has spread to leading innovators in many industries. LPPD has several unique methods used to understand the customer before committing resources to develop new products. The ‘Study Period’ is an intense evaluation of the new product idea with deep learning about the customer. The end of the study period is the documentation of this learning in a requirements document, known in LPPD as the Concept Paper, which has unique characteristics for implementing a project in a Lean environment. The objective of this webinar is to inform new product development practitioners, and their organizational collaborators, of the principles and methods to understand customers in the LPPD system. Contrasts to other development processes will be highlighted. Countermeasures to the challenges of the development discipline will be introduced. The intent is to inform and inspire innovation excellence in organizations pursuing operational excellence.
Speaker: Larry Navarre is a full-time Lecturer at Kettering University teaching courses in innovation development, supply chain management, project management, and business analytics since 2008.
Recordings of past webinars
Lean Frontiers Webinar: Kata Got Us Started, What’s Happened Since? - Dec 18th (recording link below)
Join Dirk van Rossum from Helena Industries as Oscar Roche asks him to delve into why they chose to get started with ‘Kata’ and what that looked like and is looking like now (2 plus years in). They’ll then go further into key things that have been learned thus far and their interconnection. As both Dirk and Oscar will literally be between two ‘Getting Started With Work Standards’ mentoring sessions, Dirk will be able to discuss key learnings from participants practice of that routine.
Webinar key discussion items will include:
- How ‘Work Standards’ came to the surface as being a critical piece of the CI equation.
- Where Dirk can see/is seeing other TWI skills being pulled in.
JIT Cafe Webinar: Lean into AI: Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Your Work - Dec 19th (recording link below)
Do you or your organization struggle with how to leverage Artificial Intelligence? Has fear of the unknown become an obstacle to integration? With something this powerful, education is your best friend. Guest Host, and Lean enthusiast, Jessica Blake will showcase the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence with real-world examples of the successful impact of AI implementations.
Jessica’s got first-hand experience with how AI can streamline your operations, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation in your business. She’s ready to share practical tips and strategies with us on how to integrate AI into our daily work. Join us at the cafe December 19th for an opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and discover ways to supercharge your continuous improvement work using this breakthrough technology.
Agenda:
- What is AI and how do natural language models work?
- Tool availability and pricing: Copilot, Chat GPT
- Prompt engineering
- Case studies and real life examples
- Best practice