Lean Apprenticeships

Provision of a wide spectrum of Lean deployment programmes to multiple business sectors in the UK.

CLS offers both bespoke and nationally accredited Lean training programmes to a wide variety of business sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, construction, services and logistics.

Each CLS programme involves a mixture of off-the-job workshops developed around activity-based learning and supported project-based work.  Each project is targeted to deliver bottom line savings and improvements to your business.

As each participant is actively involved in the delivery of the project, learning is experiential.  Your employees become more and more confident as they deliver each project, building the capacity for them to learn to solve their own problems in the workplace.

Depending on the size of your business, we can use our programme or tailor it based on your preferred or proprietary Continuous Improvement framework.

Our programmes emerged from strong market demand for practical Lean deployment.  CLS is unique in this approach, which has resulted in the most practical-based business improvement training programmes available.

The programmes are based on a mixture of workshops, activity-based learning and experiential learning through project-based work.  Each candidate is involved in the delivery of a series of projects whilst being supported by one of our Lean Specialists in the workplace.

The projects are focused on areas of opportunity identified by the management team, therefore they deliver significant benefit to your business.

Each of our Lean Specialists has worked with many businesses to identify and measure relevant targets, implement Continuous Improvement projects and deliver considerable savings whilst transferring understanding and knowledge of how to think and behave in a truly Lean culture.

Levy and Non Levy funding for Lean training programmes

CLS is able to deliver funded Lean training programmes under the Improving Operational Performance Apprenticeship Framework and Improvement Technician Standards

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