Identifying Waste Lean Training Student Guide
Learning to identify waste is a basic skill that is essential to nearly all of the Lean tools. Getting a group of ‘wasteologists’ on your team will go a long way towards streamlining your organization.
Our student guide help you improve your training and speed up the pace of improvement. Give your team more than just a simple printout of the slides. Use our handouts to make your class think about the concepts and write down answers as they attend the class. The more your trainees have to engage their brains with active thought, the better they will retain the information you are delivering.
Best of all, our student guides are easy to use. The PowerPoint class is annotated with the page number of the student guide, making it easy to follow along with the important points.

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One improvement possible to this web page is the second sentence of the second paragraph. “You’re your team more than just a simple printout of the slides.”
Additionally, having the students take some kind of checklist to a workplace (possibly not their own, difficult to see the waste they have been working in) and note waste that they find, is immediate application of training. This increases retention and likelihood of future application.
Ben,
Thanks for the help with the typo.
When I teach waste, I do something similar to what you are suggesting. I typically do the training in a classroom, and follow it up with the training exercise.
After that, we put the skill to practical use during the process walk. Some team members are assigned as ‘wasteologists’ and use the waste recording form to record their observations.
It makes use of the crawl-walk-run training philosophy.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Jeff