Centerline: July 6, 2016
Shift Your Style to Manage a Lean Organization
ACHE Webinar with Kim Barnas
Wednesday, July 20
Center President Kim Barnas will share advice and key elements to help leaders start and maintain a successful lean management system by shifting their focus from objectives to process. She will demonstrate how to sustain improvements, clarify continuous advancement opportunities, and deliver on strategic development.

You'll Learn:
  • Ten interconnected components of a lean management system
  • How to cascade information effectively throughout the organization
  • How employee coaching and mentoring can occur daily

 
Six Steps to Starting Lean 
HVN Member Jack Billi, MD, of the University of Michigan shares lean thinking in action as part of an AMA module.
  1. Identify a high-level champion
  2. Create an interdisciplinary improvement team
  3. Empower front-line workers
  4. Choose a starter project
  5. Celebrate and spread
  6. Sustain
Lee Memorial Executive Level Site Visit
Oct. 4, Fort Myers, Florida
Join us this fall for a new 1-day executive level site visit with Lee Memorial Health System, in Fort Myers, Florida, on Oct. 4. Attendees will learn how the Senior Leadership Team visually manages system priorities, and will experience the gemba on how staff and physicians are engaged in delivering better value to the customer.

The session will be facilitated by leaders from Lee Memorial, and includes time with Center CEO John Toussaint, MD.
Three Items That Transform Lean Leaders
To support a lean system transformation, leaders should work to transform these three aspects in themselves:
  • PDSA Thinking
  • Coaching through "humble inquiry" questions
  • How to connect the work to the organization's True North 
Learn more about these tools and lessons at our fall Lean Leadership Series--Oct. 11-14 in San Francisco, or Oct. 18-21 in Washington, D.C.