A Short Guide to Quickly Setting Up an Online Course

The Challenge In the current crisis, traditional classroom-based learning has virtually stopped overnight, so the challenge for those who need to keep continuous improvement training going is to find an alternative online delivery method so they can maintain activity. If you do not have access to a learning management system,... Read More

Playing with Operational Excellence

Introduction For many people reading this, their experience of board-gaming will be limited to playing Monopoly or Cluedo; perhaps some might be chess players. However, over the last few years, particularly since the success of the game Settlers of Catan, there has been an explosion of ever more innovative board... Read More

Understanding & Adapting to Different Learning Styles

What are the Different Types of Learners? Visual, aural, verbal (reading/writing) and kinesthetic are the most common categories that people use to define learning styles. One theory called “VARK” (an acronym for the four types), claims that most individuals can fall into one of those four categories of learning. VARK was... Read More

Peer to Peer Learning

Introduction Learning is undergoing some big changes and several educational commentators are predicting that the future of learning will be dramatically different with factors like global connectivity, smart machines and new media reshaping how we think about work, what constitutes work and how we learn and develop the skills to work... Read More

Eleven Ways to Link Training with Application

Share this Image On Your Site <p><strong>Please include attribution to https://www.leancompetency.org/ with this graphic.</strong><br /><br /><a href=’https://www.leancompetency.org/lcs-articles/11-ways-link-training-application/’><img src=’https://www.leancompetency.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/754px_11_Ways_Banner.jpg’ alt=’Eleven Ways to Link Training with Application’ width=’100%’ border=’0′ /></a></p> Learning by Doing “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle,... Read More

A Question of Qualifications

The rush to apply lean thinking in almost every business sector over the past two decades has led to a significant growth of training programmes that aim to teach workers and managers the skills needed to actually apply the tools and techniques that will realise the promised benefits of lean... Read More