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Certificate in Understanding Business Improvement Techniques

Course Overview

Do you want to understand how to actually do business improvements? This course is suitable for people who want to learn lean business improvement techniques or improve business performance across a variety of business sectors.

Key Information

Course Length

Awarding Body
NCFE

Learning Method(s)
Online materials
Online assessment

For Individuals

Funded Course
Yes

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Unit 1 – Safe and effective team working

In this unit you will be introduced to specific safety regulations, understand what risks and hazards are and how to minimise these. You will also learn what characterises an effective team, factors that support that and how to identify potential issues and put actions into place to resolve them.

Unit 2 – Workplace organisation

The unit will provide you with the principles, techniques and benefits of workplace organisation. It will include specific practical techniques that are designed to help you to audit your own workplace and provide recommendations to improve it.

Unit 3 – Continuous improvement (Kaizen)

In this unit you will learn about the principles and application of Kaizen, it will include how to identify organisational wastes and how to eliminate them. You will learn how to do a Kaizen activity in your own workplace and to establish measurable improvements.

Unit 4 – Visual Management Systems

The unit will provide you with the purpose and benefits of visual management in an organisation. It will enable you to understand practical systems, review and apply this into your own workplace to enable improvement.

Unit 5 – Problem Solving

In this unit you will learn the principles, techniques and benefits of formal problem-solving processes. It will enable you to use appropriate tools in your own workplace environment.

Unit 6 – Flow Process Analysis

This unit will provide you with the practical knowledge to map out a process, identify value add/ non-value add activities and how to identify opportunities for improvement. You will be able to apply this in your own workplace and produce an action plan to enable realisation of the opportunities.