Safety in the Workplace

Workplace accidents and injuries cost corporations millions of dollars and thousands of hours lost every year. They also have a profound, often lifelong impact on workers. Introducing a safety culture into your organization, where safety is valued as an integral part of the business’ operation, not only saves the business time and money, it also builds a committed, loyal, healthy workforce. This one-day workshop will give you the foundation...

Lean Process Improvement

This two-day course will give you the foundation to begin implementing Lean process improvement tools in your workplace. The first day will explore the foundations of Lean through the Toyota precepts and the five critical improvement concepts (value, waste, variation, complexity, and continuous improvement). The second day will give participants tools to perform continuous improvement in their organization, including 5S, 5W-2H, PDSA, DMAIC,...

Knowledge Management

Understanding how to manage the knowledge within your organization is the key to business success. Mismanagement of organizational knowledge comes with a price: frustrated employees, angry customers, and decreased productivity. All of these things can affect a business bottom line. The purpose behind Knowledge Management is to help us bridge organizational gaps and to use our greatest asset, our knowledge, to take our business performance to...

Developing a High Reliability Organization

Today’s world is full of the unexpected. System failures, terrorism events, disease outbreaks, and superstorms disrupt businesses every day, sometimes to an unrecoverable point. Despite these challenges, some services (such as power plants, hospitals, and airports) have no choice but to continue operating. This one-day course will explore how these organizations maintain high reliability even in times of serious crisis and stability. We will...

Encouraging Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Business

Today's consumers have access to a wider range of information than ever, and they use that information to check up on the companies and organizations that they support. This means that there is more pressure on businesses than ever to be socially responsible. This one-day course covers all the elements of corporate social responsibility, including environmental awareness, human rights, labor standards, ethics, organization governance, and...