The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents (TOSS) and LEAN Frog, a TOSS Institute Sponsor, are 
inviting Tennessee School Superintendents to attend a Lean Six Sigma workshop in mid-July 2014. This free half-day workshop will be held at locations in eastern, middle and western Tennessee in mid-July. Participants will receive:
- Yellow Belt Certification (Executive Leadership Training) in Lean Six Sigma approaches to drive efficiencies in school system’s non-instructional operations
- Their own DISC behavior profile (a useful tool that can provide understanding of communication styles and approaches) and training on how to use DISC to enhance improvement team performance
- One day of CEO credit from TOSS.
Registration will begin at 8:30 AM each morning and the program will conclude by early afternoon. Lunch will be provided. Interested Tennessee School Superintendents may make a reservation here.
LEAN Frog specializes in helping school districts reduce costs (thereby increasing resources for academics), avoid litigation, and decrease fiscal risk through the deployment of Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement and Performance Management Tools. LEAN Frog has worked with a number of school districts in with very impressive results and is now beginning to offer its services in Tennessee.
The title for this workshop is: Strategies for Fiscal Sustainability in Harsh Economic Times: Building School District Efficiency through Lean Six Sigma.
This course is an executive leader overview on using Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement and Performance Management Tools to drive efficiency in school system’s non-instructional departments. By the end of this course attendees will have a detailed understanding of:
1. Understand Operational and Organizational Wastes and how they negatively impacts school system performance;
2. How to use Process Improvement and Performance Management approaches (i.e. Lean Six Sigma) to eliminate and reduce Operational and Organizational Wastes;
3. How to select and set-up key process metrics;
4. How to use those measures through a management system to drive fiscal sustainability and academic performance;
5. What pitfalls should be avoided when implementing process improvement techniques.
For further information about the TOSS Institute, please contact Barry Olhausen at (615) 254-1955 or at [email protected].
TOSS is the leading advocate organization for public education in the state of Tennessee. Since 1975, TOSS has been progressing public education and addressing the needs of its administrators. For more information about TOSS, please go to: www.tosstn.com.
Headquartered in Huntsville, AL, LEAN Frog’s mission is to help public schools succeed through increasing the value they deliver to students, faculty, parents, and communities while fully engaging employees, reducing costs and building a spirit of continuous improvement.