Make problems visible
Develop a shared understanding of the gap between the current and desired situation.
Consulting
Understand the problem.Improve the work.
Practical support to make problems visible, understand their causes and develop improvements with the people doing the work.
Lean is about sustainable improvement built into the culture of an organization. Cordell brings an outside perspective while helping your team develop the knowledge to carry the work forward.
Explore consulting
Consulting shaped around your organization
Make progress on the problems that matter.
Connect improvement to the work your organization needs to do, and the people who do it.
See what is happening
Improvement begins with understanding the current situation. What should be happening? What is happening instead? Where does the work become difficult?
Working with your people helps bring different perspectives together, separate assumptions from observations and define a problem worth solving.
Solve, share and develop capability
A proposed solution is a starting point for learning. Explore the causes, try a considered change and review what the result tells you.
Capture what works, spread the learning and equip people to lead the next improvement. This makes Share and Show explicit: useful knowledge moves through the organization and leaders develop others to use it.
Keep the purpose in view
The right support depends on your situation. Discuss the challenge, the people involved and the outcome you need before deciding how to proceed.
Explore root causes
Look beyond symptoms to understand what is making the problem recur.
Involve your people
Draw on the experience of the people closest to the work.
Sustain improvement
Build understanding and ownership so your team can keep learning.
Feedback from previous trainees
Learning that makes
a difference.
Developing people is at the heart of Cordell’s work. Here’s what previous trainees have said about learning with him.
“Cordell’s understanding and enthusiastic delivery of the subject matter makes our training workshops highly effective, efficient and fun.”
Engineering ManagerGlobal Manufacturing Organization
“Cordell has shown me both a deep and broad knowledge on learning & teaching itself as a skill.”
CI LeaderGlobal Manufacturing Organization
“We have used Cordell to deliver shop floor Professional and Autonomous maintenance programs as well senior management feasibility studies and consider him an integral business partner.”
Engineering ManagerGlobal Manufacturing Organization