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Operational Excellence Training

Increasing Operational Effectiveness

Operational excellence, operational effectiveness, operational efficiency

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Operational excellence training teaches managers to map, measure and improve real work processes using quality management, waste reduction and efficiency metrics. Participants practise process mapping, root-cause analysis, standard work, visual controls and improving key customer moments. Bodhih runs it as a 2-day workshop or five 3-hour virtual sessions, followed by a 60-day improvement project on one real process.

  • Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
  • Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
  • Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions

Where and how: operational excellence training as an in-person workshop in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Jaipur; as a live online course; or delivered overseas in Dubai, Singapore and across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Last reviewed by Siddharthan VGJ, Founder · Bodhih Training, Bengaluru

Increasing Operational Effectiveness includes productivity practices, focus on quality management, and incorporating efficiency metrics as a strategy tool.

Bodhih’s workshop on Operational excellence is about measuring operational efficiency and continually asking the question “how to increase operational efficiency?”

Operational excellence is a multi-disciplinary approach to build productivity practices, focus on quality management, and incorporating efficiency metrics as a strategy tool.

Total quality management. Benchmarking. Time-based competition. Reengineering. Change management. The quest for productivity, quality, and speed has spawned a remarkable number of management tools and techniques.

The resulting operational improvements have often been dramatic. Yet many companies have failed to translate those gains into sustainable profitability. Simply improving operational effectiveness does not provide a robust competitive advantage because rarely are “best practice” advantages sustainable. Once a company establishes a new best practice, its rivals tend to copy it quickly. Strategy is about doing things differently, not simply doing them better than everyone else. And it’s the key to competitive advantage.

The workshop on increasing operational excellence conducted by Bodhih’s helps participants develop aspects of operational effectiveness like quality or hygiene, business etiquette, interpersonal skills, and time management to name a few.

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How to improve operational effectiveness is another way of asking How to improve operation performance: the answer lies in optimization.

Bodhih’s workshop talks in detail of the aspects of organizational excellence – like focusing on quality management, incorporating global best practices, learning to use efficiency as a strategic tool, delivering value by being more efficient, translating operational improvements into profits, using operational efficiency as a competitive advantage, assimilating, attaining and extending best practices, creating an USP and finally doing things differently to deliver value.

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Operation effectiveness and Strategy go hand in hand.

Operational excellence session helps participants to understand the primary drivers of quality and hygiene in the client workplaces. Bodhih’s Facilitator uses group activity, class presentations, individual reflection activity to surface how participants can understand about a product, market and a customer perceptions basis the focus that is placed on quality and attention to details. Operational excellence and executing its line items are a tenured skill because it brings together productivity techniques, product or service knowledge, market understanding around 4P’s (place, promotion, product and pricing) and also how to convert the unique moments that matter to customers into tangible offerings.

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Operational excellence workshop takes into account building blocks needed to build business etiquette.

Bodhih’s operational efficiency session delayers business etiquette into behaviour and mannerisms, presentability, and grooming. Through class presentations, videos, and group discussions, the Bodhih’s facilitator lays out basics’ skills associated with business etiquette like – communication, interpersonal behaviour, meeting preparations, note-making, social rules, conflict resolution. Learners in role plays work on a few of these nuances to comprehend what it means to make positive and professional impression in client situations.

Bodhih’s facilitator explains the relationship between increasing operational excellence and interpersonal skills. Through videos, and real-world illustrations, participants get a refresher on how to communicate their points in effective ways by demonstrating positive mindset and active listening techniques for discovering key customer moments. Learners make a note of the personal insights and the possibilities they can take back to apply on their client situations.

Bodhih’s increasing operational efficiency program next delves into time management. Scenarios and role plays are used to surface situational variables of time, task, relationships, expectations, quality, costs and finally value. Class learners through presentations, group discussions and individual reflection are made to grasp the circular nature of time and how time management techniques are non-negotiable to deliver on client expectations. Examples are given for participant to cultivate time-sensitivity in their daily actions

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Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles.

This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the sessions at Operational excellence – using efficiency as a strategic tool.

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At Bodhih, increasing operational excellence course is a much sought-after session that is part of a larger corporate skills training suite.

The session brings latest research done on operational excellence, and its successful practices sourced from product and services companies across the globe and also, the management consulting companies through their case studies.

The heart of Bodhih’s Operational excellence lies in the powerful session adherence to operational standardization and consistency practices. Bodhih’s facilitator highlights through real world situations for the learners to understand the strategic lens of building predictability into their routine transactions. The final part of the session is Operational Excellence through knowledge management. The session progresses through individual reflection and instructor led presentation that finally wraps the workshop with details on how to summarize and consolidate the personal insights, class observations, action plan and a note to myself that visualises future success.

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How would you gain from operational efficiency courses at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its operational excellence workshop along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the operational effectiveness program takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s operational excellence program comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to embed specific quality and hygiene appreciation processes, incorporating business etiquette, time management techniques and applying standardization protocols to daily work outcomes.

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What is Bodhih’s promise on increasing operational excellence workshops?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on increasing operational effectiveness talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, demonstrating higher appreciation of quality mindset, larger appetite to employ organizational best practices of knowledge management and sharing and finally, creating a unique vocabulary by using organization efficiency metrics for strategic gains.

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Sample training plan: 2-day hands-on design

This two-day design treats operational effectiveness as something managers do to a real process, not a slide on best practice. Each participant brings one process they own. They map it end to end, time it, find the waste, set a small set of efficiency and quality metrics, and redesign it with standard work. Day 2 adds the customer's moments that matter, professional conduct in client situations and personal time discipline, then asks how the improvement becomes a difference rivals cannot easily copy. The capstone is a live improvement pitch.

78% hands-on practice13.5 contact hoursCohort: 12–24 participantsIn person · Live virtual
Day 1See the process, fix the process

Participants have mapped, measured and redesigned one real process with metrics and standard work.

  1. 09:30–10:10The paper factoryBusiness game
  2. 10:10–11:00Map my processHands-on lab
  3. 11:15–11:45Seven kinds of wasteConcept burst
  4. 11:45–13:00Finding the real causeCase clinic
  5. 13:45–14:45Metrics that drive the right behaviourBuild sprint
  6. 14:45–15:30Standard work and visual controlsDemo & practice
  7. 15:45–16:45Future-state redesignGroup challenge
  8. 16:45–17:30What I saw todayReflection
Day 2Customers, conduct and competitive difference

Participants can improve the customer's key moments, manage their own time and pitch an improvement that lifts profit.

  1. 09:30–10:00The worst customer experience I hadEnergiser
  2. 10:00–11:00Moments that matterDiagnostic
  3. 11:15–12:15Professional in front of the clientRole-play
  4. 12:15–13:00Where my time goesSkill drill
  5. 13:45–14:45Better or different?Debate
  6. 14:45–15:30From savings to profitHands-on lab
  7. 15:45–16:45Improvement pitchPresentation
  8. 16:45–17:30My 60-day improvement projectAction planning
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Recommended: 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), ideally with a site walk, or 5 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 60-day improvement project on one real process. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.

How long is operational excellence training?

The recommended design is two days in person, 09:30 to 17:30, ideally with a site walk, followed by a 60-day improvement project on one real process. It also runs as five live virtual sessions of three hours. A one-day version covers mapping, root cause and metrics.

What activities are included in operational excellence training?

Teams run a paper-aeroplane production line, map and time their own process, count waste, find root causes on a dispatch error case, set metrics that cannot be gamed, write standard work and pitch a costed improvement pilot to an operations and finance panel.

FAQs

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What is operational excellence training?
Who is the Operational Excellence program for?

Managers, team leads and senior leaders at every level. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.

How long is the Operational Excellence program?

Bodhih recommends 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), ideally with a site walk, or 5 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 60-day improvement project on one real process. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.

Can Operational Excellence be delivered online?

Yes. Operational Excellence can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.

How is the impact of Operational Excellence measured?

Success measures for Operational Excellence are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.

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