More
Catalysis | Inspiring Healthcare Leaders, Accelerating Change
Cart

Principle-Based Development for the Improvement Team

Is your Improvement Team supporting the current leadership to become principle-based leaders? Before you can help other leaders transform, you must be willing to transform yourself.

Through our experience at Catalysis we have seen that ideal behaviors for organizational excellence are derived from the principles first codified by the Shingo Institute.  We have developed a flexible model of improvement team coaching to assist these professionals in their practice.  Our goal is to help you develop internal capability to support leader transformation to a principle-based culture.

Our approach consists of a combination of onsite and virtual sessions.  Each session includes group education, discussion, and homework, as well as individual or small group Personal Development A3 coaching and dialogue.

Session 1
  • Introduction to Principle-Based Leadership
  • Personal Development A3
  • Create Value for the Customer

Session 2
  • Create Constancy of Purpose
  • Strategy Deployment and True North
  • Leader Standard Work

Session 3
  • Transparency through Visual Management
  • Respect for Every Individual

Session 4
  • Lead with Humility
  • Leader Gemba
  • Focus on the Process

Session 5
  • Scientific Thinking
  • Seek Perfection

Session 6
  • Assure Quality at the Source
  • Think Systemically

Following completion of this coaching, participants will be able to:   

  • Practice the leadership behaviors necessary to coach and support the creation and development of a principle-based improvement culture.
  • Demonstrate basic coaching skills including active listening and asking open-ended questions.
  • Develop personal standard work which will model the principle-based behaviors required to lead and sustain a successful lean transformation.

Schedule: Elements can be covered in a minimum of 6 sessions but expanded into additional sessions depending on the number of individuals being coached and the timeline for executive coaching. 

Pre-reading: Pre-reading will be assigned prior to each session.

Recommended Reading: Management on the Mend: The Healthcare Executive Guide to System Transformation by John Toussaint, MD and Beyond Heroes: A Lean Management System for Healthcare by Kim Barnas  and Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare by John Toussaint, MD and Kim Barnas.

Copies to be provided to participants.

Recommended Prerequisite Sessions:  Principles and Behaviors of Organizational Excellence, Maximizing Your Improvement Team, and Building Coaching Capabilities

Contact Us to Schedule