Welcome

Capable people delivering extraordinary results.

Extraordinary business results are delivered by engaged and enthusiastic employees who apply Continuous Improvement to everything they do. There are five key success factors that form the structure of a truly extraordinary business – sustainable profitability year on year, intensely loyal customers, exceptional leaders and passionately loyal employees who go the extra mile. Combine these factors with a proactive continuous improvement programme and you have a recipe for changing good businesses into extraordinary ones.

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Our DNA

Real, simple results

We connect knowledge, people and performance to deliver Real, Simple Results.

• We believe any business can be ‘Extraordinary’
• We have an unwavering curiosity and tenacity for finding ‘better ways’ of working.
• We are ‘Ruthless’ with standards yet ‘Gracious’ with people.

We make improvement fun! When it’s fun, people engage! When people are engaged, they become motivated to achieve! When people are motivated to achieve they deliver Real, Simple Results.

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How We Work

We roll up our sleeves, guide learning, challenge thinking and get teams focused on practical outcomes.

SBF works in partnership alongside you to transfer knowledge that will create sustainable improvements for your business. To do so, we operate a model of Specialists Consultants, Regional Improvement Champions (RIC’s) and a Specialist Support team to deliver improvement programs, projects and support.

Our Specialist Consulting team members collectively have over forty-five years domestic and international business management experience. Over twenty-five years’ experience in facilitating and implementing Lean systems.

They include former customers of SBF and have acquired an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the SBF Proven Process, leading teams and adopting change. Their ability to see both sides of the partnership has proven to be a positive combination. They understand the complexities of having to deliver daily operational demands whilst implementing Lean at the same time.

This increased awareness translates into consulting programs and projects that are more empathetic to the needs of team members, delivery that is less theoretical and a more realistic focus on delivering ‘real’ business results that matter.

Our Regional Improvement Champion’s provide a critical service and are instrumental in the delivery of successful projects. They provide ongoing project support and follow-up on progress and actions between each specialist visit. They ensure project remains focused and ensure forward momentum is maintained.

Each Regional Improvement Champion has between five to fifteen years previous business experience. They are selected for their non-Lean specialty, their attitude and their ability to engage and converse positively with clients at all levels of a business.

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Proven Process

The SBF Proven Process is a six-step blueprint that we use when delivering continuous improvement projects.

Whilst the process is standardised, each consultant brings their own personal flair, specialist skill and experience to ensure project success.

During each project, we regularly engage with management and shop floor team members to discuss progress, review results, construct case studies, generate ideas and collect anecdotes to ensure the identified needs of that client are being met and that deliverables are well on track to be met by the end of the project.

Through our Proven Process we know you will achieve results and create a sustainable continuous improvement program within your business.

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Funded Programs

SBF is a recognised provider for many of the national and local government agencies who provide funding support for business growth programs. These include:

NZTE Capability Development Voucher Scheme – Regional Business Partners Network

NZTE Capability Development Vouchers are available to businesses to use as partial payment towards the cost of capability development and training in the following areas: Business Planning, Business Systems, Business Sustainability, Capital Raising, Export, Finance, Governance, Lean Manufacturing / Business Operations, Managing Resources, and Marketing.

NZTE Capability Development Voucher Scheme

Callaghan Better by Lean

Better by Lean is a workshop and coaching programme that applies a Lean Thinking lens to your entire operational system – development processes, workflows, supply chains, production lines, distribution channels and customer touchpoints – to boost your competitiveness and performance.

Callaghan Better by Lean

Contact us today to learn how these can be applied to helping your business achieve the results you are striving for.

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Ideal Projects

The only constant in life is change. Rapid changes in technology and increasing global competition requires organisations to continually transform the way they operate.

To help with this need for change SBF developed the IDEAL process:

• Identify – the challenge
• Define – the parameters
• Explore – the solutions
• Action – the change
• Look back – to assess the results

By engaging SBF to assist with this simple technique any company make simple and effective improvements within their organisation.

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Project Coaching

Creating achievable goals through collaboration.

We all face challenges within our business where we need to bounce ideas of people, or put a structure around a specific project. SBF takes a collaborative approach as a coach to build milestones and deliverables that are achievable and will ensure success of your project. With this structure comes accountabilities, and SBF will help you manage these to ensure the project remains on time and on budget to ensure successful delivery.

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Public Training

Lean Thinking.

An introduction to the exciting world of Lean Thinking. By the end of this workshop you will have a better understanding Lean Thinking.
You will become inspired by the endless opportunities that a Lean focused improvement programme can deliver.

Duration: 9o minutes
Cost: $90/person

Lean Thinking. Get Serious!

Activate Lean Thinking in your business. By the end of this workshop you will be able to use core Lean tools and techniques to activate a planned solution to a difficult problem.

Duration: 1 day
Cost: $650/person

Lean Thinking. Get Global!

Are you interested in setting your course for a Lean Thinking future? By the end of this workshop you will have:

• Been introduced to Lean Thinking.
• Prepared a Lean Thinking three year strategy canvas.
• Developed your own Lean Thinking strategy
• Developed a twelve month implementation and ninety-day plan for your team.
• Developed an introductory presentation for your team.

Duration: 2 days
Cost: $1,500

Lean Instructor Programme.

Are you interested in planning, facilitating and leading a Lean Thinking change?

By the end of this programme you will…

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a Lean Instructor.
• Be ready to launch, lead and manage workplace change.
• Learn how to engage team members in conversations about improvement.
• Learn how to plan, prepare and measure focused improvement.
• Be able to facilitate and coach Lean Thinking tools and techniques.
• Be able to manage a 12 Step FIT (Focused Improvement Team) process improvement project that delivers a safer work environment, a timely delivery to customer, an improved quality performance and/or productivity gains.

Duration: 3 days
Cost: $2.250

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In-house Training

We offer all of our public courses to companies as in-house training.

If you have a group of people that you want trained in the complex delivery of continuous improvement, then get in touch, we’d be happy to help.

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Leader Development

Growing People, Awareness, Belief and Commitment.

Our goal is to build committed and energised high performing teams by training, coaching and supporting managers and supervisors to become confidence, capable and create time grow themselves (personally, professionally) and their teams.

We surveyed our customers and from their feedback we now understand what managers and supervisors really need to learn, understand and apply in their daily work to be successful.

We have therefore compiled an A to Z of the skills managers and supervisors have asked for. We have framed our programmes in a way that delivers either a one-off, short practical training and coaching session on a topic or a selected block of topics combined and delivered as a tailored package of learning.

Learning is supported by practical coaching, follow up and feedback.

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NZ Certificate

NZ Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices Level 4
NZ Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices Level 3

The New Zealand Certificate in Business (First Line Management) Level 4
The New Zealand Certificate in Business (Intro to Team Leadership) Level 3

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