Pre Conference Workshops: 24th March, 2010

9.30 - 12.30 Workshop A: Transferring the principles of Lean into day-to-day policing - adapting the basic principles of eliminating waste to cut out cost and streamline operations

Caught between making short-term cuts and doing the ‘right thing’ for your organisation? You can do both. This workshop will provide practical insights to the current economic climate and how incredibly powerful Lean can be to cut out cost in the office as well as core operational projects.

Specifically you will cover:

  • Focus improvement initiatives where they will have the biggest impacts against pragmatic targets
  • Achieve greater adoption of Lean thinking through effective change and team management structures
  • Embed sustainable process and performance improvements in all operational areas
  • Energise change through continual communication and adoption of Process Improvement

13.30 - 16.30 Workshop B: Change Management - acquiring the most successful methods for generating rapid and sustained change

This workshop is designed to take a step back from IT, tools and techniques to look at the soft skills needed to deliver sustainable change. Perfect for any programme leader, participants will focus on:

  • The politics of change: How to influence people through behavioural analytics and communication styles
  • Applying motivational theory to performance management: How to make people want to change
  • Showing the ‘what’s in it for me’: Gaining buy-in through communicating personal benefits not just the business
  • Developing from manager to leader: How to lead organisational change