Skill:  Identify how common cause variation causes defects and how it needs to be addressed.

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader of Quality Management, Commercial Excellence, or Focused Improvement.  

Knowledge needed:  "Why Quality Management Should Focus on the Total Cost of Quality", "Why Understanding the Types of Variation Matters", "How to Determine if You Have a Capable Process".

Skill:  Lead a DMAIC project using statistical tools, typically for a repetitive and complex quality issue.  The issue would be solved with optimized process parameters.  

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader or Member of Quality Management, Commercial Excellence, Capital & Equipment Management, or Focused Improvement.  

Knowledge needed:   "Why Quality Management Should Focus on the Total Cost of Quality", "Why Understanding the Types of Variation Matters", "Why and How to Use Control Charts" , "When and How to Lead a DMAIC Project", "DMAIC Methodology Step by Step", "How to Determine if You Have a Capable Process", "How to Run Calculations for process Capability in Excel or Minitab", "Introduction to Regression". "How to Run Regression Analyses in Minitab or Excel".

In a situation when you have  free capacity and we're coming up with new products and launching/modifying equipment to increase your sales...

Skill:  Lead a team to brainstorm and listen to the voice of the customer to understand new product solutions needed.

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader or Member of Commercial Excellence, Supply Chain Management, or a Champion or Sponsor.

Knowledge needed:  Commercial Excellence Belt-Specific lessons, "Commercial Excellence (CE) Pillar Overview", "How to Implement Commercial Excellence", "Balancing Capacity and Demand through the S&OP Process", "How to Get Started With a S&OP Process", "Integrated Business Planning (IBP) in Your S&OP Process". "How to Drive the Right Conversation With Your Prospects", "How to Structure your Sales Conversation to Offer Value and Avoid Objections", "Tweak your Wording When Discussing With Your Prospects", "How to Find Product Market Fit for a New Customer Solution".

Skill:  Lead a team to use an FMEA to optimize a new process/product/equipment right from the start.  

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader or Member of Quality Management, Capital and Equipment Management, Commercial Excellence, or Supply Chain Management.  

Knowledge needed:  "How to Use an FMEA to Prevent Issues", "Why How FMEA Needs to Be Used Early in Product and Process Design", "Machine and Cell Layout Design for Lean Operations".

Skill:  Use a Capital and Equipment Management Standard Work (an existing SOP, Procedure, and/or Checklist used in your organization, or create one from training lessons) to optimize the design and launch of a new equipment/process.   Would include being able to analyze if the standard work can be improved based on the learnings.

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader or Member of Capital & Equipment Management, Quality Management, Safety, Machine Reliability, or Focused Improvement.  

Knowledge needed:   "Overview of Equipment Management and Equipment Purchase", "The Equipment Management Launch (Post-Purchase) Process", "Why We Need Standardization and Standard Work", "How to Use Reliability Centered Maintenance to Choose Equipment and Maintenance Types",  "What is Predictive Maintenance", "How to Improve Your Spare Parts Management in  Your Maintenance Storeroom".

Skill:  Identify when lower inventories and shorter lead times are an important opportunity to focus on and why. 

Typical coachee:  Pillar Leader, Sub-Pillar Leader, or Member of Supply Chain Management, Commercial Excellence, or Focused Improvement.  Or a Sponsor.  

Knowledge needed:  "Why Cycle Times Matter to Meet Takt Time and Lead Times", "Example of an Advanced Culture and Pursuit of Lead Time Perfection", "Have you Found Tim Woods Yet", "Why Take Another Look at Value Stream Mapping".

Skill:  Explain to a team what the opportunity is with reducing excess inventory and when customers want a shorter lead time.  Would include updating and using the current state Value Stream Map to do so.

Typical coachee:  Leader or Member of Supply Chain Management, Commercial Excellence, Cost Deployment or Focused Improvement.  Or also Champion or Sponsor.  

Knowledge needed:  "Why Cycle Times Matter to Meet Takt Time and Lead Times", "Example of an Advanced Culture and Pursuit of Lead Time Perfection", "Have you Found Tim Woods Yet", "Why Take Another Look at Value Stream Mapping", "What is Flow and the Benefits of Reducing Batch Sizes".

Skill:  Identify opportunities to use Just-in-Time (JIT) to reduce lead time or inventory, and lead a team to create an action plan.  Would include using a future state Value Stream Map to do so. 

Typical coachee:   Pillar Leader of Supply Chain Management, Commercial Excellence, or Focused Improvement. 

Knowledge needed:  Supply Chain Management Belt-Specific Lessons, "Why Cycle Times Matter to Meet Takt Time and Lead Times", "Example of an Advanced Culture and Pursuit of Lead Time Perfection", "Have you Found Tim Woods Yet", "Why Take Another Look at Value Stream Mapping".

Skill:   Handle a situation when a Belt doesn't really want to lead projects anymore, as they've been doing it for 3 years already.  

Typical coachee:  Sponsor, FI Leader, Divisional OpEx Leader, or Champion.

Knowledge needed:  "Example of an Advanced Culture and Pursuit of Lead Time Perfection", "Digital Transformation Need and Timing", "How to Drive Change", "How to Use Pacesetting Leadership to Keep Challenging Skilled Teams" (Champion & Sponsor Course), "Why Leaders Need to Adapt Their Leadership Styles" (Champion & Sponsor Course).