Lean Leader's Organizer 2021 (LLO) assists you to plan, track, and self-improve new lean leadership habits and routines. A lean leader is someone who enables a continuous learning culture across the organization by creating customer value at the lowest possible cost. Lean leadership is developed through constant lean management habits and routines of practice. The leader's behavior is a key success factor in a lean transformation initiative.

1. Lean Leader’s Organizer 2021
Lean Leader's Organizer 2021 (LLO) assists you to plan, track, and self-improve new
lean leadership habits and routines. A lean leader is someone who enables a
continuous learning culture across the organization by creating customer value at the
lowest possible cost. Lean leadership is developed through constant lean management
habits and routines of practice. The leader's behavior is a key success factor in a lean
transformation initiative.
A Lean Leader embraces a true north vision.
That vision provides the direction for the
leader like the north star for sailors. A lean
leader steers his organization towards the
true north vision just like a sailor navigates
his ship by guided by the north star.
Lean Leader’s Organizer 2021 comprises of Vision painting space, Gap identification
space, 4 Strategy A3 planners, Annual planning board, Monthly activity prioritization
space, Lean Leadership models and instructions, Daily habit planner & tracker with
one week per two pages, Lean Leadership habit score indicator, Weekly habit score
graph, Monthly self-reflection (Hansei) guidelines, Quarterly self-assessment, 24 Five
Why and Gemba Kaizen formats and Blank notes pages. These are systematically
structured with guidelines for any leader to intuitively assist them in planning,
tracking, and improving essential lean leadership habits.

2. 👉 Vision Board (4 Pages with examples)
Leader can plan the future of his organization and draw, sketch or paint the vision in
the blank space provided.
👉 Five “A3 Thinking” Formats (10 Pages with example)
A3 thinking is an effective planning and organizing technique that is used by the lean
leaders. It follows PDCA thinking that lays perfect foundation to summarize,
articulate and execute the projects
👉 Annual & Monthly Planners (8 Pages)
Leaders can list down their annual and monthly planned work. It helps to
amalgamate different actions planned in different places and see the full list of work
available for the month
Inside LeanLeader’sOrganizer2021

3. 👉 Leader’s Standard Work for 365 Days
Leaders can plan their lean routines daily and take reflection at the end of the day.
The space is provided for 7 days of the week and time slots expanding from 8.00 to
18.00. There is space to measure the plane to performance success rate for each
week. Leader can see the percentage of achievement every week and plan the next
week to become better.
👉 Lean Habit Progress Tracker
Tracking space with gridlines are provided to indicate weekly performance in one
graph. This helps the leader to track the progress of his/her achievement of the plan.
👉 Monthly Reflection & Evaluation
Each month the leaders can reflect what went right, what went wrong and plan next
month’s activities based on that reflection

4. 👉 24 “5 Why” & Gemba Kaizen Formats
Two 5 why problem-solving activities can be recorded per month and altogether 24 five
why formats are available for recording purposes.
👉 62 Blank Pages
Leaders can write notes on the black pages.
• A5 Journal with Black PVC print with matte lamination and 280 inner pages
with 80 gsm art paper + 150 gsm artboard with color print
• Machine section sewn binding
• Box - A5 size box with matte black hard board
Material Description

5. “Toyota doesn’t believe that
leadership can be taught; it
can only be learned by those
who are willing to self-
develop. It is therefore
critical to allow self-
development and reliably
identify it among potential
and existing leaders.”
-Jeffry Liker
WHO ISA LEAN LEADER
A lean leader is someone who enables a continuous
learning culture across the organization by creating
customer value at the lowest possible cost. Lean
leadership is developed through constant lean
management habits and routines of practice. This
organizer assists you to plan, track and self-improve
new lean leadership habits and routines.

6. LEAN LEADERSHIP
“There are three kinds of leaders: Those that tell you
what to do. Those that allow you to do what you
want. And Lean leaders that come down to the work
and help you figure it out.” – John Shook
WHATIS
DIAMOND MODEL
LEAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
of
Source: The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
True North Values
Challenge
Kaizen Mind
Go & See
Teamwork
Respect for Humanity
Commit to Self Development
Learn to live True North values
through repeated learning cycles
Coach & Develop
Others
Learn See &
challenge the
potential in others
through self-
development
learning cycles
Support Daily Kaizen
Build local capability throughout
for daily management and kaizen
Create Vision and
Align Goals
Create True North
vision and align
goals vertically and
horizontally

7. 7
OF A LEAN LEADER
Accept challenges with a creative spirit and courage to realize
dreams without losing the drive and energy
2 KaizenMindset
The mindset that any process is not perfect and everything can
be improved
3 Genchi Genbutsu
Go and see the real place, process and people to deeply
understand to make decisions
4 TeamWork
The individual success can happen only with the team and the
teams benefit from individual’s growth
5 Mutual Respect
Respect every level with empathy. Create sense of belongingness
in the workplace to ignite creativity
CORE VALUES
1 SpiritofChallenge
Reference : The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership

8. TRADITIONAL LEADER
LEAN LEADER
VS
Leadership
Element
Traditional
Leader
Lean
Leader
Ability &
Potential
Charisma makes people
follow
See possibilities for
improvement in self & others
Learning &
Growing
Learn from a mentor or
copy successful style
Go to gemba, understand
and take on challenges
with mentor’s guide
Develop next
level leaders
Result oriented; driving
subordinates with rewards
and punishments
Process oriented; Develop
people in right way and the
results will follow
Coach and
develop others
Develop ‘favorites’ or hire
‘heroes’ from outside
Help self-development
learning cycle
Achievement of
goals
Drive performance and hold
key individuals accountable
Promote learning with
standards, targets & visual
management
Enable process
improvement
Accountable others for
metrics via system of
rewards and punishments
Coach others to assume
responsibility for closing
gaps
Develop vision
and plan
Create and sell a dramatic
and measurable plan
Collaborative process to get
agreements and align goals
(hoshin kanri)
Set and align
goals for
achievement
Identify high and low
performers for achievement
Initiate and sustain
contineous improvement.
Focus on problem solving
Reference: The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership

9. DEVELOP LEAN LEADERSHIP WITH
Kata is the way of doing something, pattern, method, drill or routine.
This method is used in Japanese martial arts and a similar mechanism
is observed in Toyota with lean leader development. The execution of
the diamond model for lean leadership could be aligned with Toyota
improvement kata methodology
KATA – LEAN ROUTINES
A broad description of a condition
that you would like to achieve in
the future.
A description of how your
company or responsible area
should operate in order to achieve
the target
Evaluate the current condition
by observation (Gemba) and Key
Performance Indicators
Develop right actions and
experiments with A3
Thinking, Scientific Problem
Solving. Coaching &
Development and Daily
Gemba Kaizen
2021 Dec
Target
Condition
2020 Dec
Current
Condition
Vision
Gap
Unclear
Territory