TY  - CONF
TI  - Bringing Lean Construction to Life: Developing Leaders, Consultants, Coaches, Facilitators, Trainers & Instructors
C1  - Perth, Australia
C3  - 23rd Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 413
EP  - 423
PY  - 2015
AU  - Mossman, Alan
AD  - Managing Director, The Change Business Ltd, UK, +44 7968 485 627 alanmossman@mac.com 
ED  - Seppänen, Olli
ED  - González, Vicente A.
ED  - Arroyo, Paz
AB  - There is a global shortage of competent and experienced individuals able to lead, coach, facilitate, train and provide consultancy support both internally and externally to clients, owners, constructors and designers who want to make a successful lean transformation of their enterprise or their projects. Demand exists within public and private sector clients and owners, as well as among design and construction enterprises and their professional advisers. If the shortage is not addressed there is the potential for the advance of lean thinking in construction to stall and lean construction to get a bad name as constructors and others seek to cut corners and pay lip service to lean as happened in UK (United Kingdom) 15 years ago. The aim of this paper is to begin a discussion of the skills and knowledge required by those who want to succeed in one or more of these roles. This essay reviews past lean construction leadership development actions and suggests a curriculum for those who want to develop the skills and knowledge required to excel in these roles. A delivery framework for a development program is proposed. The paper concludes with calls for further research and for action sooner rather than later to address the issues, preferably on a regional or global level rather than on a national one. The value of the paper for practitioners is that it suggests the range of skills and knowledge required to be effective which can help their own development and help assess and recruit internal and external consultants, etc; the benefit for scholars is the discussion of what might be included in undergraduate and higher degree curricula as well as ideas for post-experience, post-graduate course offerings aimed at this need. 
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - leadership
KW  - consultancy
KW  - coaching
KW  - facilitation
KW  - training
KW  - instructing
PB  - 
T2  - 23rd Annual Conference of the  International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2015/07/29
CY  - Perth, Australia
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1176/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1176
N1  - Export Date: 18 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -