TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Build a better, stronger workforce that is ready to achieve your business goals

From workshops to coaching to full-scale transformations, Perigon Business Solutions delivers a range of learning experiences in project management, leadership, quality, and continuous improvement.
Our experts will work with you to determine the right mix of solutions and types of engagement to best meet your people-growth needs and improve your organizational capabilities and performance.

Training and Development You Can Trust

Professional Coaching

We help you figure out one-on-one or as a team what to do and guide you through how to do it.

Content Quality

Our in-person and live virtual skills-based workshops and fully accelerated education options are derived from proven methodologies and best practice research.

Learning Customization

We provide customized learning experiences to suit the interests of individuals and organizations irrespective of size, sector, or industry.

Instructor Expertise

Our training offerings are led by highly experienced subject-matter experts who maintain professional certifications and other credentials preferred by clients.

Courses and Descriptions

Problem Solving, Task Completion and Competition – The Value of Curiosity and Understanding Team Development Strategies

This workshop focuses on the following topics

  • The importance of gathering customer requirements
  • The power and pitfalls of out-of-the-box thinking
  • The impact of “group think”
  • Team development cycles of forming, norming, storming, performing, and adjourning
  • Simulations and hands-on exercises
  • The critical importance of creating a no judgment zone when problem-solving
  • The team approach to rapid problem solving and iterative improvement cycles
  • Managing team dynamics in self-managed teams
  • Behavior under pressure and how to improve self-awareness and self-discipline

Benefits to attendees:

  • Leverage formal and informal influencers and the impact they have on team performance
  • Recognize and manage barriers to team success
  • Set realistic targets yet compete to win
  • Lead and coach for improvement and successful task completion

Who should attend?

  • Leaders, managers, and practitioners
  • People engaged in self-managing teams and problem solving that support new and existing products and services

Duration:

½ Day or 1 Day

Workshops, Courses, and Presentations

Training elements:

  • Organizational leadership
  • Project management and leading teams
  • Change management
  • Voice of the customer
  • DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) methodology
  • Lean principles
  • Comprehensive understanding and application of quality and lean tools
  • Descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Simulations and exercises using Minitab software

Benefits to attendees:

  • Able to lead process and other business improvement projects
  • Skilled in the use of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and tools
  • Garner recognition as an expert in reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and improving cash flow

Who should attend?

  • Individuals seeking to achieve significant business improvement results for their organizations

Duration:

Presentations (1 Day)
*Workshops (2-3 Days)
*Courses (2-4 Weeks)
*Vary by content requested:

A Structured Approach to Continuous Improvement

This workshop focuses on the following topics:

  • Overview of PDSA philosophy
  • The four steps in the PDSA cycle
  • How to apply the steps
  • High performing teams
  • The quality tools and techniques for PDSA
  • Performing root cause analysis
  • Simulations and hands-on exercises
  • Implementing verifiable solutions and standardization

Benefits to attendees:

  • Fosters teamwork through brainstorming and problem-solving techniques
  • Lets you test potential solutions on a small scale and in a controlled environment
  • Proven approach that can reliably produce iterative improvement
  • Standard methodology that can be used across an entire organization
  • Can be used for project management, process improvement, change management, and product development

Who should attend?

  • Anyone involved in the pursuit of incremental, evolutionary change within their organization

Duration:

1 Day

One Problem, One Team, A Rapid Iterative Improvement in Efficiency and Effectiveness

This workshop focuses on the following topics

  • How to plan, do, check, and improve using the PDCA improvement cycle approach
  • Measure time and quality using visual displays
  • After each iteration engage in a brief “Take 5” team meeting – what did we expect? What did we experience? What will we do differently?
  • Simulations and hand-on exercises
  • Collaboration and the value of increasing communications

Benefits to attendees:

  • Collaborate and communicate as a team when completing tasks, resolving issues and working together
  • Engage people more effectively in problem solving
  • Create a SMART problem statement and set a realistic yet aggressive target
  • Increase commitment to – Just Try It – and improve through iteration work

Who should attend?

  • Leaders, managers, and practitioners
  • Individuals engaged in processes and problem solving that supports new and existing products and services

Duration:

½ Day or 1 Day

A Structured Method to Identify the Underlying Reason for a Problem

This workshop focuses on the following topics

  • RCA core principles
  • Problem definition
  • Understand the process
  • Identify potential causes
  • Collect data
  • Analyze the data
  • Simulations and hands-on exercises
  • Corrective action and standardization
  • Keys to RCA project success

Benefits to attendees:

  • Helps in developing a logical approach to solving problems
  • Extends the variety of tools that can be utilized to complete a RCA project
  • Improves collaboration and problem solving skills

Who should attend?

  • Individuals interested in learning about an effective quality improvement methodology

Duration:

1 Day

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