Lean Certification
Overview
Enhance your career and skills to you and your company's benefit with Lean Certification!
Obtaining a Lean Certification will set you apart. It demonstrates your dedication to professional improvement to add value to your organization. The unique experience, knowledge, and expertise will make you a leader capable of making a difference. Lean is a highly recognizable industry standard from which both you and your organization will greatly benefit.
Lean Certification offers the opportunity to apply the theories learned in the Mini Master of the Lean Enterprise or equivalent training from a different source (i.e., company provided training. You will select a suitable lean project from your own workplace (or one provided by the instructors if not currently employed).
Students pursuing Lean Certification must score 80% or higher on a multiple choice exam and complete a Lean project. Your project is completed through independent study and required check-ins with the instructors. Completion of the Mini Master of the Lean Enterprise or an equivalent, pre-approved training by the instructors is a required pre-requisite for this program. In addition to the 16 hours of class time, you should expect to put in approximately 40 hours towards completing a project.
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of Lean Concepts and ability to apply them for tangible benefit in an organization.
- Demonstrate Knowledge of Lean via:
- Acceptable test results
- Completion of Lean Projects / Kaizen event
- Presentation of Project Results using an A3 format.
- Demonstrate skills in addressing change management issues, influencing, basic project management, and communication in leading a Lean project.
- Generate conversations with course leaders and participants to share ideas and practices and create network of practitioners for participants.
Participants must complete a project in their organization (or another organization or nonprofit if they are in transition), applying Lean tools and concepts, between Day 1 and Day 2. The Lean project and objectives should be identified prior to attending Day 1 of the certification program. If students are in transition, we will assist them in finding a project.
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