Lean Practitioner

We use small class sizes to allow lots of interaction with the instructor, as well as allowing us to make the course tailored and relevant to your specific interests.

There will also be quite a few breakout sessions of smaller teams of students and instructors to test and practice the tools.

We like participation! We think as students you learn most by questioning, challenging and testing what you hear.

We use Zoom Workplace for all teaching and breakout sessions. It's free to download and use. A laptop or desktop computer with a camera and a headset with microphone will work best in class.

The course notes and teaching examples will be distributed via a public One Drive folder for you to download your own local copies.

Weekdays, from 9am until 4pm UK time, with plenty of breaks in between!

A typical day usually goes as follows but these standard times can be adjusted to accommodate schedule conflicts (including different time zones!). Let us know at the start of the class and we’ll work it out with agreement of the class at the time.

9:00 – 10:00

Morning session

10:00 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 12:30

Mid-morning session (with a short mid-session break)

12:30 – 14:00

Break for lunch

14:00 – 16:00

Afternoon session (with a short mid-session break)

For Six Sigma modules only:

We will use the statistics package JASP, which is free to download and use. Simply download and install it before the class starts.

Get JASP

This is supported by a number of universities and institutions lead by the University of Amsterdam.

It is a port of SPSS from IBM. It has all the capabilities and functionality that we need right up to the expert analyst level.

It is easy to use and it has excellent reporting formats for your project documentation.

It is important that we all have access to the same tools for classwork and breakouts and JASP is a great choice for all of our stats analysis needs.

You will easily transfer the knowledge gained using JASP to any of the other proprietary stats tools used in your business.

No. We don't record any of our live teaching with students.

Yes, of course. Don't worry!

If at any point the demands of your job or your personal plans change and conflict with the schedule you can always defer to a later cycle and pick up where you left off.

No problem.

Firstly, we don't record any of our live teaching.

We also don't required you to give your full name when you sign into the classroom.

Before joining the class you will also be able to set up a background blur to obscure things that might be in view behind you.

We will send you a copy of all the slides and all the training examples before the start of the class.

We think it is important that you have access and are able to make notes on the material as you learn.