Foster a collaborative environment by removing D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E. (ABEF Cat4)

Excellence Evolution: A Journey Through the ABEF Framework

Category 4: People

We all usually look forward to a bit of downtime, but in this workshop, it's a dirty word! Join Blue Crane's team and learn new ways to support employees by identifying and improveing the things that steal their attention and energy.

This workshop will help you to eliminate stoppers from your teams' daily work, with a focus on decreasing waste and understanding value-add activities.

This workshop series has been developed to:

• Be tool-oriented
• Provide an interactive experience
• Emphasise practical application of the Australian Business Excellence Framework

Explore New Disciplines

Are you familiar with the Disciplines of Operational Excellence? In this workshop, we will apply several Lean Management and Lean Six Sigma tools, explaining how to use them to realise immediate improvements in your daily work.

Learn - and Use! - New Tools

Blue Crane's workshops are designed to be interactive and leave you prepared to use new tools in your daily work - whether we are teaching in the classroom or online!

In this workshop, we will walk you through tools including DOWNTIME and Value-Add Activity Analysis to understand where value is being lost in your organisation and resources.

About the Business Excellence Australia Workshop Series

Each workshop in this series is designed to allow organisations to focus on one Australian Business Excellence Framework (ABEF) Category in their organisation, regardless of industry, size or business type. In 90 minutes, we will explain the importance of this topic, introduce a tool (or tools) in an approachable, repeatable way, and tie it back to the ABEF framework for sustainability and continued maturity growth.

Join all seven workshops and see the full uplift across your organisation over the course of the year!

To learn more about the ABEF, Business Excellence Australia (BEA), and the Global Excellence Council (which includes BEA, Baldridge Performance Excellence Program and EFQM, among others), please visit the BEA website.

About Your Facilitators

Stephanie Naidoo - CEO Blue Crane Consulting Group and Adjunct Faculty AGSM

Stephanie has a passion for helping organisations to improve customer outcomes, employee experience, and profitability via process excellence, collaborative culture, and superior operational planning and transformation delivery. She delights in shaping ethical programs to achieve higher profitability for her clients, assessing organisational capability, and developing and delivering bespoke programs spanning operational excellence and professional development.

Stephanie is a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, and holds advanced degrees from Australian Graduated School of Management (AGSM at UNSW) and Boston University. She is an Adjunct Faculty at AGSM and owner of their ‘Operational Excellence for Leaders’ open executive course, as well as numerous private courses.

Rob Walley - Ambassador for Business Excellence Australia

Rob passionately believes that the principles of business excellence are critical to the success of any organisation, large or small. These principles derive from well-documented experience over the last 80 or more years.

He is an expert in business excellence, problem-solving and Lean Six Sigma. As one of BEA's longest-standing Business Excellence Award evaluators, his ability to articulate the value of the Framework and pinpoint issues for improvement in organisations is unsurpassed.

Blue Crane Consulting Group

Would you like a more hands-on, guided approach? Blue Crane provides half- and full-day bespoke onsite workshops targeted at ABEF Category uplift, or full leadership programs to support integration of the Principles across your management and operations.

Visit us at bluecrane.com.au or email contact@bluecrane.com.au to learn more.

Blue Crane Consulting Group is a recognised provider of BEA-supported programs.