Kaizen Workshop Playbook (PowerPoint PPTX)

This is a PowerPoint document. It has been designed as a comprehensive guide as to how to create and execute a 3–5-day Kaizen workshop. It can be used as reference material for project leads, or alternatively as training material. It also contains templates that can we used to facilitate the kaizen workshop.

It contains theory around Kaizen to set the scene as to why an organization should use Kaizen. What is a Kaizen culture and how there should be a strategy within the organization around different types of Kaizens. It explains what a Kaizen workshop is and who should lead this type of workshop.

It then gives examples of the different type of documents needed to deliver a Kaizen workshop. It also includes an excel document which is the Kaizen workshop preparation checklist (before and after). This document details the practical steps in getting ready for a Kaizen workshop over the period of pre-work (before) and after the workshop has ended.

The document then continues to explain what the Kaizen workshop week could looks like. This is always the hardest part for a project leader of this type of workshop. How do they lead the team to solve the problem and create as successful solution? It is a big task managing a team for this period of time.

Each step shown is then broken down to explain what it looks like and what type of action the project lead should take. This is in essence a very detailed agenda for the workshop which if followed should lead to a successful outcome. Many tools are shown and discussed, so it assumes that the project lead is a trained lean leader.

Final there is a brief explanation around what to do after the workshop has ended.