1. Denver Peak Academy
Black Belt Training
Day 2 – Tools to ID Waste

2. Agenda – Black Belt Day 2 – Tools to ID Waste
Topic
Time
Morning
Gemba Walk – Teams of classmates go to various locations around City to watch work being done
8:00am – 11:00am
WORKING LUNCH
Teams prepare readouts/results from Gemba Walk
11:00am - 1:00pm
BREAK
1:00pm – 1:15pm
Afternoon
Teams present readouts from Gemba Walk
1:15pm – 2:15pm
2:15pm – 2:30pm
Discussion – We Don’t Make Widgets
Review Tools to ID Waste
Close Day 2 (Q’s and Discussion)
2:30pm – 4:15pm
End of Day
Ignite Prep
4:15pm – 5:00pm

3. Peak Academy
Gemba Walk Readouts

4. Gemba Walk – Readouts
Each team will have 10 minutes to present your findings from the Gemba Walk, with 5 minutes for Q&A
Class Discussion for each Gemba Walk
Next steps:
Presenting your findings to the agencies/departments that hosted your Gemba Walk

5. BREAK Let’s take a break and when we come back:
Discussion of “We Don’t Make Widgets”
Wrap-up Day 2 and Prep for Day 3

6. Peak Academy
We Don’t Make Widgets

7. Discussion from Reading Assignment
Book
We Don’t Make Widgets
By: Ken Miller
Discussion Q’s / Topics
Who is Ken Miller?
What is his background?
Myth #1
We don’t make widgets in Gov’t
Myth #2
We don’t have customers in Gov’t
Myth #3
We’re not here to make a profit in Gov’t
Handout

8. Denver Peak Academy
“Ignite”

9. Final “Ignite” Presentation
Format of the final presentations
5 minutes long
Can use PowerPoint, Prezi, flip charts, or some other method of presenting
If using PowerPoint/Prezi:
15-to-20 Slides, must auto-advance (e.g. every 15 seconds)
Set the auto-advance feature in PowerPoint
Animations: Set Advance Slide feature to go “Automatically after 00:15”
Slideshow \ Set Up Slideshow: Set “Advance Slides” to “use timings, if present”
Samples of the format available at:

10. Guidelines: Final “Ignite” Presentation
~30 seconds:
Info about you and 2 of your favorite inspirational quotes
Be creative and have fun w/ these slides!
Information about your agency. Could include: size of your agency, budget, key value streams, performance metrics for your work-group, key leaders in your organization, etc.
Be creative here!
~3 minutes: Presenting 3 innovations, 1st 3 boxes for each innovation
You will have an opportunity during training to ID possible innovations
Title/Intro to the Innovation, about/title of the process it addresses, and work-group(s) that might be involved in the innovation
A3 Box #1 – Why Change is Needed
A3 Box #2 – Current State
A3 Box #3 – Future State
Tell us why you want to be a Black Belt, how you anticipate keeping in touch w/ one another after training, and how do you anticipate leveraging the Peak Academy after training?
Add other items here about yourself, about innovation, and/or about Peak Academy
Have fun & be creative!

11. Day 2 Wrap-Up Let’s do a +/- exercise:
What things did you like about today?
What things do you think would make the rest of the days in training work better?

12. Ignite Prep– METRICS within your A3s
Think of one innovation that you might want to address after the training
Start an A3 on a blank sheet of paper
Fill out the first 3 boxes:
Why Change is Needed
Current State – Add METRICS!
Future State – Add METRICS!
4. Ask questions and get input from the instructors

13. Day 2 Agenda (in review) Topic Time 8:00am – 11:00am 11:00am - 1:00pm
Morning
Gemba Walk – Teams of classmates go to various locations around City to watch work being done
8:00am – 11:00am
WORKING LUNCH
Teams prepare readouts/results from Gemba Walk
11:00am - 1:00pm
BREAK
1:00pm – 1:15pm
Afternoon
Teams present readouts from Gemba Walk
1:15pm – 2:15pm
2:15pm – 2:30pm
Discussion – We Don’t Make Widgets
Review Tools to ID Waste
Close Day 2 (Q’s and Discussion)
2:30pm – 4:15pm
End of Day
Ignite Prep
4:15pm – 5:00pm