Why Attend
How do organizations improve productivity? What is productivity to start with? This course presents best practices on how to boost productivity by focusing on quality and cost saving initiatives. In this course we will share best practices and tools from organizations that implemented quality methodologies to improve their processes and achieve faster cycle times, lesser defects and simplified operations. Participants will also learn how to apply these practices in their organizations and understand how to manage change. They will master the skills to leverage the existing culture to their advantage by creating a solid platform and moving the organization into a new mindset. This course is critical for every organization aiming to save cost and become more efficient and productive.
Course Methodology
This course relies on the use of exercises and workshops to engage participants and help them learn new concepts and practices. Group and plenary discussions will be used and participants will be required to debate and present their findings. In addition, videos with different case studies will be presented.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define productivity and various types of organizational waste
- Identify areas of poor productivity due to poor quality and suggest ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency
- Justify and apply quality improvement tools and techniques in order to improve productivity
- Apply several cost reduction strategies in order to meet changing global, statutory and market conditions
- Recognize and apply measuring initiatives and set targets in order to improve productivity
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors and all those who are responsible for, or indirectly involved in, a cost or profit center or a quality improvement function.
Target Competencies
- Problem solving
- Change management
- Applying quality
- Understanding cost reduction
- Applying Lean
- Understanding Six Sigma
Course Outline
- Productivity defined
- Definitions
- Productivity limitations
- Process based view
- The ‘Muda’ factor
- Eight types of waste
- Cost of poor quality
- Principles of cost reduction: the quality approach
- Quality defined
- Cornerstones of quality
- Barriers to cost reduction programs
- Setting up a cost reduction program
- Resistance psychology in humans
- Techniques to involve employees in your quality improvement tasks
- The role of suggestion schemes
- Productivity improvement tools
- Productivity improvement project road map
- Tool selection
- Brainstorming
- Pareto
- How-how method
- Why-why method
- Ishikawa fish-bone diagram
- Six Sigma
- Lean principles
- Non value added analysis
- Re-engineering
- The ‘Focus’ method
- Cost reduction opportunities
- Streamlining the organization and the ESSA method
- SMART practices for increasing productivity
- Cost savings opportunities
- Barriers to a cost cutting program
- Getting commitment to a cost cutting program
- One hundred and forty ideas to cut costs
- Measuring your productivity initiatives
- Key performance indicators
- Types of measures
- Setting targets for cost reduction
- Benchmarking
- Types of benchmarking
- The balanced scorecard
- The dashboard
11-ISO 14001:2015 Transition Training: Environmental Management System
Why Attend
This course is specifically designed for managers with environmental and/or sustainability responsibilities. The course provides a clear path towards successfully achieving ISO 14001 Transition – with any accredited certification body. All new requirements from the 2015 revision of the standard will be considered and participants will be empowered to return to their organizations and effectively implement the methodologies shared on the course.
Participants will learn how the new ISO 14001:2015 standard supports the strategic direction of the organization and how new ISO Clause requirements enhance the relevance of this management system. Participants will consider risks and opportunities that may impact environmental performance and will develop a more focused planning approach, to achieve environmental objectives.
The ‘leadership’ clause will be considered in a way that enables managers to engage with top executives within the organization and secure their ‘buy-in’ with key environmental initiatives. Performance evaluation will also be reviewed in depth, enabling managers to evaluate the effectiveness of the environmental management system while simultaneously delivering improvements on a continuous basis. Arrangements for reviewing organizational environmental compliance (regulatory) will be investigated and participants will learn how to establish an effective compliance framework for the benefit of the organization.
Course Methodology
The course is interactive and is comprised of presentations, case studies, technical process learning and supplemental discussions related to various industries and the challenges of implementation.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Advise their organization’s top management on how the new 14001 standard affect the organization
- Demonstrate how to create a framework for managing organizational risks and opportunities
- Implement a suitable framework for evaluating compliance and communicating compliance status outcomes
- Demonstrate why document control in support of ISO14001 is important and implement an effective approach
- Support the strategic direction of the organization with effective environmental objectives and targets and ongoing evaluation and improvement of environmental performance
Target Audience
This course is designed for managers and supervisors with ISO Management System responsibilities. Attendees typically include HSEQ managers, environment managers, quality managers and other individuals entrusted with an environmental performance remit. The course is also beneficial for internal auditors within an organization who are tasked with auditing various functions, including those linked to environmental compliance and performance.
Target Competencies
- ISO 14001 EMS (Environmental Management System)
- Communication Skills
- Presentation Skills (Verbal and Written)
- Information and document analysis/interpretation
Course Outline
- Introduction to ISO14001:2015
- ISO 14001:2105 Structure (Annex SL)
- ISO 14001:2105 Transition and the Role of Implementers and Auditors
- Organizational Context, Leadership & Resources, Risks and Opportunities
- Environmental Aspects – Activities/Products & Services – Developing a Life Cycle Perspective
- Environmental Aspects – Evaluating Significance
- Environmental Objectives and Planning (SL)
- ISO 140001:2015 Policies and Documentation
- 14001 Policy Requirements (Commitments), Strategies & Implementation
- Operational Controls and Performance Evaluation
- Issues Impacting 14001 Effectiveness
- Compliance Obligations and Evaluations
- Documenting and Communicating Compliance Status – Interested Parties
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Testing Emergency Arrangements
- Auditing ISO 14001:2015
- Internal Audits – Planning, Preparation, and Execution
- Managing Nonconformance (Corrective Action)
- Effective Management Review (Inputs/Outputs)
- Managing Improvement
- Control of Outsourced Processes
- Communication
- ABC Geotechnical Ltd
