I hope you your team are all healthy and continuing process improvement at your site. At GBMP we are all well, but scrambling with the understandable social distancing restrictions. As a countermeasure, we have retooled the most popular GBMP training to be handled virtually - even the go-see portions.

Last week, O.C.Tanner (www.octanner.com) agreed to serve as a virtual host the upcoming Shingo ALIGN workshop, opening up the opportunity for attendees to participate in the face of the COVID-19 social distancing and travel restrictions. Except for folks from O.C. Tanner who are already on site, all attendees with be virtual.

In the last two weeks, GBMP has conducted nine of our own virtual workshops and they have been surprisingly effective, including face-to-face communication, group breakout rooms and actually a level of visual detail (1080P) on the visits to Gemba that is great for team engagement. For the April 14-15 ALIGN Workshop at O.C Tanner there are additional benefits:

No travel expense or travel time. You attend from your workplace or home.

Ability for multi-locations of your organization to gather as a team from anywhere. (We held a workshop earlier this month with virtual attendees from three continents.) Even if your team is far apart geographically, we can put you at the same table for discussion and breakouts.

More coaching from GBMP instructors. We attend virtually as well, enabling us to add more of our team of facilitators and Shing Prize examiners to the mix. We’ll be right over your shoulder to coach and answer your questions.

Our virtual workshop is $1,200 for the two days, a significant savings per seat.

As an enticement for the ALIGN Workshop registration, GBMP is offering a FREE one-year subscription to LEANFLIX streaming content, featuring GBMP’s Shingo Award Winning videos (like Toast Kaizen) as well as dozens of popular webinars and previous keynote speakers from our annual conferences.

Many GBMP clients have been searching for a meaningful use of their time during this period of containment. A Shingo Certificate workshop is terrific way to prepare for the business rebound. And the ALIGN workshop, focusing on systemic thinking, strategic planning and constancy of purpose, will be hosted by O.C. Tanner, a Shingo Prize winning facility and paragon of the Shingo Model.

I encourage you to take advantage today. Seats are limited. You can register at this link: OCTannerALIGN