Webinar - Part 1 Mapping: The Essentials of a Powerful Process Improvement Tool

  • Thursday, May 05, 2016
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Two locations to choose from

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As a benefit to ALA South Florida Chapter members, we invite you to attend this webinar at Daniels Kashtan in Coral Gables and Greenberg Traurig in downtown Miami. There is NO fee for South Florida Chapter members.   Please register on the website for any webinar you wish to attend.

Are you under growing pressure to do more, faster for your firm? Do you want to lead initiatives that will improve the productivity and efficiency of your business and administrative teams, and increase your firm's profitability and competitiveness? If yes, you're not alone. This two-part webinar, you will be introduced to process improvement in the legal industry. Gain tools you can use immediately to improve the business and administrative processes that support a thriving, profitable and competitive law practice.

 Objectives

  • Identify the essential Lean concepts of value and waste 
  • Define the DMAIC approach to process improvement
  • Examine the most powerful tool in your process improvement toolkit: mapping - process grids (SIPOC), high level value stream maps and detailed process maps  

CLM  Application Credit: 1 hour in Self-Management Skills

CLM Recertification Credit: 1 hour in the subject area of Operations Management (OM)

 CLM App Credit for Functional Specialists: 1 hour in the subject area of Operations Management (OM) towards the additional hours required of some Functional Specialists to fulfill the CLM application.

This program has been approved for 1 Business recertification credit hour toward PHR, SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI).

 

The Association of Legal Administrators is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program has been approved for 1 PDC.

How to request an HRCI and/or SHRM certificate:

  1. If viewing webinar with your own personal subscription, please send a copy of the certificate of attendance from Peach New Media toProfDev@alanet.org and the program ID certificate will be emailed to you. Please specify if you need HRCI, SHRM or both. OR
  2. If viewing webinar as part of a group, please request credit in writing and have group leader email a copy attendance sign in/out sheet toProfDev@alanet.org and the program ID certificate will be emailed to each individual in the group who requests it. Please specify if you need HRCI, SHRM or both.

Karen Dunn Skinner is Senior Attorney and Lean Practice Management Advisor. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with more than 18 years of international experience in corporate-commercial, regulatory, and education law. She is co-founder and principal at Gimbal Canada Inc., specialists in Lean practice management and continuous improvement in law firms, in-house legal departments and public sector institutions. She teaches, speaks, and writes regularly on the application of Lean in the legal profession, and facilitates projects that improve the practice and the business of law.

David Skinner is a senior attorney, Lean practice management advisor, and senior management executive with more than 20 years of experience in the legal, venture capital, and biotechnology industries. He is co-founder and principal at Gimbal Canada Inc. A certified Lean Six Sigma expert, he is also a speaker, university and CLE lecturer, and process improvement facilitator who applies Lean to the practice and the business of law.

This webinar is being hosted by:

Daniels Kashtan
4000 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Suite 800
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Telephone: (305) 448-7988

and

Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
333 SE 2nd Avenue, Suite 4400
Miami, Florida 33131
Telephone: (305) 579-0765
 



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