Companies spend real budgets sending managers to lean manufacturing training courses — and the factory goes on unchanged. It is one of the most common frustrations we hear. The problem is usually not the quality of the course; it is the learning method itself.
Training courses transfer concepts efficiently: the seven wastes, 5S, kanban, takt time. Participants can ace the exam. But back at their own line — facing a specific bottleneck station, a specific changeover, a specific pile of WIP — a wide gap opens between knowing and doing. Improvement is a skill, not knowledge, and skills are only built through repetition in real situations.
We are not against training — RCG runs its own structured training programs and lean kickoff workshops. Their role is ignition: a shared language, aligned management, the will to change. What keeps the fire burning day after day is something else.
RCG's on-site coaches work with your shop-floor leaders every day: today's real problem is today's teaching material; countermeasures are tried on the spot, results observed, methods adjusted. Over hundreds of such cycles, managers build muscle memory. Director-level consultants review monthly to keep direction true. When the engagement ends, the capability stays with your own team — something no training course can deliver.
You do not have to choose between training and coaching — but consider reallocating: move part of the training budget into coaching, so the concepts learned in class actually produce results on the floor. That is the core of RCG's lean manufacturing consulting delivery.
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