Learn how to make "nice" your superpower at work. Get practical guidance on balancing empathy with decisiveness in your professional life.

Set your team up for success. Join Michael Schrage—who has served as an advisor to Google and IBM—as he explains how to create KPIs that drive your company forward.

Learn how to lead with purpose. Use purpose to connect employees to your company, inspire innovation, increase revenue, and emerge as a highly regarded leader.

Learn how to craft more effective leadership stories. Discover the essential elements of great storytelling, as well as how to structure and deliver stories that inspire.

An effective leader—at any level or organization—is driven by values. Learn how to identify and confidently express your values with these practical, engaging exercises.

Become a leader who motivates and inspires. Learn how to lead with vision.

Join inclusion strategist, Harvard-trained-lawyer, author and instructor, Vernā Myers, to learn how to grow a more inclusive workplace and become an ally in and out of the office. Vernā explains what an ally is and who can be an ally. She shows you the link between inclusion, equity, and allyship and describes the importance of allyship as a business practice that starts from the top down. Vernā lists ways allies behave in the workplace, shows you how to identify opportunities to be an ally, explains how allyship can shape your community then walks you through some misconceptions about allyship. Your course concludes with some final takeaways to lead your org on a journey of allyship.

Successfully lead change at the team level. Get practical frameworks and strategies for guiding a team as they acclimate to brand-new ideas and initiatives.

Learn how to take control of your own career trajectory and manage your mindset, behaviors, and workplace relationships to help you stand out in the market as a leader.

Learn how to take control of your own career trajectory and manage your mindset, behaviors, and workplace relationships to help you stand out in the market as a leader.

Learn the basics of lean accounting. Find out how to help your organization maximize capacity and improve the bottom line by tracking and reporting key metrics.

Job instruction (JI) is a fundamental element of lean. It is a streamlined method of instruction that will help you transfer knowledge from instructor to learner more quickly and easily than conventional training methods. This is done through one-on-one training following a four-step method and using a document called a job breakdown. This course—for JI facilitators—can be used to prepare for your next job instruction course. Ron Pereira and Roger Bilas explain how to develop the job breakdown sheet, create a training timetable, practice effective instruction, and roll JI out in your organization. Using these tips, you can use JI to develop proficiency, prevent defects, eliminate waste, and reduce stress among all your employees.

This course was created by Gemba Academy, a leading provider of lean and Six Sigma training. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

Learn how to apply lean tools, tactics, and strategies to manage inventory more effectively.

Learn what Lean Six Sigma is, why it is used, and how it can be applied to manufacturing, services, and supply chain management.

Learn essential skills to be an effective team member on a Lean Six Sigma project team. Explore key tools and techniques in the analyze, improve, and control phases of the DMAIC.

Learn what you need to know to be an effective team member on a Lean Six Sigma project team. Explore key tools and techniques in the Define and Measure phases of the DMAIC.

Deliver value quickly and sustainably. Learn to use learn software development to optimize systems and create value.

Great teams develop better products. Get tips to build a high-performing lean team.

Explore two frameworks—decision trees and cost of delay—that can be used to drive decisions at the portfolio, program, and product level.