Lean and Agile: Become the Ultimate Productive Executive

Ever wondered why some individuals, their teams and companies can thrive in tough environment while others perish (eg NOL)? Chances are they embrace leanness and practice agile in everything they do. The principles are the same regardless whether you are managing yourself or leading a team of 10,000 staff. Forget about teambuilding exercise, teaching people about lean and agile is key to a greater team.​
 

Why Lean?
For an individual, being lean means one will have low bodyfat which translates to numerous benefits. A solid, healthy with little fat frame allows for fewer injuries, resistance to sickness, and a longer life span. It also mean it has less burden on the body and therefore costs less to maintain (in terms of food energy requirement and medical costs). Aesthetically speaking, a leaner person looks much better and therefore more confident. The same principle applies for an organisation. Being lean. populise by Toyota, to is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste.

Why Agile?
An agile individual is one who is being adaptable, managing change, always trying to keep pace with technology and consumers' ever-evolving needs and desires. Generally, a person who is physically agile tends to think agile. A person who exercise regularly using specific exercises will have such attributes.

A non agile person thinks and says "We have been doing this all this while". An agile person says "Let's see if we change and do it better". 

Software developers were the ones who published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The whole idea is to discover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do. They have come to value Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools, Working software over Comprehensive documentation, Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation, and Responding to change over Following a plan.

Such agile practice has started to spread to other industries as well where rapid market changes happen with very little warning. From manufacturing, marketing, food business, general management, education to child development, it seems that one cannot afford not to be agile anymore.

In this workshop, our focus is to develop lean and agile individuals physically and mentally. When such individuals fully understand the full benefits and full concept, they can execute tasks many times faster with greater precision and achieve greater end-users' satisfaction. They will be selfless to help others achieve similar goals because of the knock-on effect and teamwork becomes effortless. The best part? Everybody enjoys working together for company's benefit!

Topics covered:

• Why become Lean & Agile

• How to:

  • Nutrition

  • Exercise

  • Rest

• Work process: the lean and agile way of doing things

  • The spirit of an agile mind

  • 4 Ds

  • Pulse of life

  • How to eat an elephant

  • Do Scrum - the most widely used Agile working process.

  • Answers questions like:

    • How to end the never ending 'to do items' list.

    • Minimising meetings and other resource wasting activities

    • 'Non-Managing' co-workers etc.

• Training tools (e.g. Scrum Board, 4Ds table) & practical sessions are included for greater learning experience.

• Contact us for more details or set up this workshop for your organisation.