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How effective is your organization’s approach to enterprise excellence?
• Is it as good as people think?
• How well does your senior leadership perceive it; are they engaged?
• What does world-class operational excellence really look like?
• What next steps will accelerate your pathway to excellence?
Understanding the depth and breadth of highly effective improvement practices requires experience and practice. Learning to see what is happening beneath the surface is crucial.
This 2-day in-person workshop will enhance transformational change leaders’ abilities to assess enterprise excellence more effectively.
Key benefits:
• Gain a deeper understanding of highly effective improvement practices
• Enhance skills to assess & communicate your organization’s true improvement maturity
Using the AME Lean Sensei® assessment tool as a framework, participants will be challenged to “see” improvement capabilities through the AME Pathway to Excellence lens. Participants will strengthen their assessment skills by evaluating a case study of a company with effective improvement practices and through two real-world ‘go and see’ activities where assessment teams practice assessing at the host facility.
Receive coaching from seasoned AME Pathway to Excellence examiners on how to see and gauge an organization’s improvement practices. The skills taught in this workshop can be applied to any assessment framework currently used by the participants’ company, as well as enable more effective assessment using the AME Lean Sensei® tool.
The workshop will empower participants’ to engage their senior leadership and drive their organization forward on a Pathway to Excellence, improving their effectiveness as change leaders. The AME Lean Sensei offers a unique perspective compared to most internal assessment instruments; it’s focused on the organization’s improvement practices.
"Assessor training was an incredible value for our team. It is so difficult to aim for excellence without being able to assess our current state. We had four of our senior leaders attend and wish we had our whole team with us. Being able to be present with and learn from the industry leading assessors and to start to see with their eyes how to look past the surface for the system was a huge benefit."
-Marc Braun, Past President, Cambridge Air Solutions
"The Learning to assess excellence not only teaches the mechanics of how to perform a thorough assessment, but more importantly, helps you attain the right mindset to constructively assess an organization."
-Paul Waterman, VP Manufacturing, FLEXcon
Entegris, As a global company working with leading manufacturers to enable ongoing advancement in technology, we have a global infrastructure that includes strategically placed manufacturing sites, R&D facilities, and customer support centers. We make infrastructure investments that put us closer to our customers in all global regions. Our highly skilled team members, facilities and resources are right where you need them in order to help you solve your most advanced technology challenges. entegris.com
Michael Bremer serves on the AME Management Team as the vice president of awards. He is the retired president of the Cumberland Group, a consulting organization established in 1991 to coach companies on effective improvement practices. He is also a past national board member of AME and the author of several books on performance improvement, including “How to Do a Gemba Walk,” a Shingo Research & Professional Publication Award recipient. Bremer leads AME’s Excellence Award Council and was a 2019 Mac McCulloch Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
Day 1 - Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- Welcome and introductions
- Roles, responsibilities, and standard work for assessors
- ?AME definition of excellence: What language are we using
- Case study: Hands-on practice assessing using applicant documents
- Host site tour in preparation for day 2 Gemba activities
Day 2 - Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- Conducting an effective site assessment
- Asking the right questions
- Quick look at AME Lean Sensei®
- Hands-on practice: Gemba Walk #1
- Report out
- Hands-on practice: Gemba Walk #2
- Report out
- Developing a valuable feedback report
- Verbal feedback to the host site
- Q&A/Wrap-up
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
AME
Photo ID, leather-like closed-toe shoes; no high heels; long or short-sleeved shirt/blouse and long pants
Entegris
Safety glasses and gloves- provided by Entegris
Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- More deeply articulate what excellent improvement practices, management practices, and operational systems look like
- Have more confidence in their assessment skills and capabilities
- Provide more actionable feedback and recommendations to their leadership
- Utilize the AME Lean Sensei® self-assessment instrument and apply lessons learned to improve or augment their organization’s current assessment tools
- Leverage the AME Excellence Award criteria and the pathway to excellence framework to elevate improvement practices in any organization
- C-level executives and operational leaders
- Change leaders responsible for lean and operational excellence transformation
- Individuals interested in improving their ability to assess their organization’s current state and determine the next steps on the pathway to excellenc
Your organization will benefit most if 2 or 3 people attend.
We strive to host events that are inclusive and accessible to everyone to fully participate and engage. Please email events@ame.org if you have any questions.
If you are not already a member of AME, we invite you to join at this time. Membership benefits include complimentary and discounted event registrations throughout the entire year. To learn more about membership benefits, please visit here.
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Cancelation Policy: This event may be canceled by AME for any reason. AME is not responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants. For paid events, registration fee less a $20 administration fee will be refunded up to one week before the event. Substitutions may be made up to three days prior to the start of the workshop.
