Advanced Daily Management
Help teams deepen their use of daily routines, visual systems, and problem-solving methods to drive consistent, high-reliability performance.
Advanced Daily Management
Across this eight-week program, learners explore key concepts in advanced daily management through content tailored to frontline and operations leaders. Practical examples and weekly application exercises equip participants to make an immediate, meaningful impact on their teams.
Delivery Model
This hybrid, cohort-based course spans eight weeks, enabling learners to Learn, Experience, Apply, and Perform. Training combines modern on-demand modules with live virtual coaching and support. Each participant can expect roughly 40 hours of total learning time.
Target Candidates
Directors, nurses, operations managers, and supervisors.
Cohort Size
Ideal cohort of 10-30.
Strengthen Daily Improvement Skills
Advanced Daily Management improves learners’ skills in identifying waste, running PDSA cycles, using daily management tools, visualizing supply and demand, recognizing abnormalities, leading huddles, coaching teams, and reflecting on personal and professional growth.
Eliminate Waste to Add Greater Value
Learn to spot and eliminate waste in your area of responsibility to improve efficiency, reduce delays, and create more value for patients and teams.
PDSA Cycles to Drive Rapid Learning
Apply PDSA rapid learning cycles with your team using daily management tools to test ideas, measure impact, and accelerate continuous improvement.
Balance Supply and Demand with Visual Tools
Learn to balance supply and demand within your team and create visual boards that clearly track progress, share insights, and support daily management.
Spot Issues and Uncover Root Causes
Develop the ability to spot and communicate process abnormalities, uncover root causes, and identify opportunities to drive lasting improvement.
Engage Teams Through Daily Huddles
Create consistent daily huddles and rounding routines that connect leaders with teams, surface challenges, and turn insights into actionable improvements.
Coach Teams to Solve and Innovate Daily
Strengthen your ability to frame problems clearly and coach effectively, empowering teams to generate ideas and drive continuous daily improvement.
Reflect, Grow, and Share Your Progress
Learn to reflect on your experiences and share personal and professional growth to inspire others and reinforce a culture of continuous learning.
Lead and Improve Every Day
These courses strengthen leaders’ ability to manage daily operations with clarity, consistency, and purpose. Participants learn to visualize performance, analyze problems, and coach teams toward reliable, lasting improvement—building a foundation for sustained excellence.
Foundations of Daily Management
Learn the core principles of daily management that empower teams to solve problems, track performance, and sustain continuous improvement.
Visual Management
Use visual tools to make performance visible, highlight progress, and engage teams in real-time problem-solving and accountability.
Root Cause Analysis
Develop the skills to identify the true causes of issues so solutions address problems at their source and lead to lasting improvement.
Daily Accountability
Build reliable systems for tracking goals, reviewing progress, and holding teams accountable through structured daily conversations.
The Work of Leadership
Discover the daily habits and leadership behaviors that foster engagement, promote alignment, and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Improving Through Reliability
Understand how standardization and consistency improve outcomes, reduce variation, and create more dependable systems of care.
Daily Improvement and Coaching Ideas
Learn to coach and empower teams to identify improvement opportunities, test solutions, and embed learning into daily work.
Daily Management Performance Portfolio
Document and track key metrics, goals, and outcomes to measure progress and demonstrate the impact of daily management practices.
Build Skills That Drive Results
The LEAP model helps healthcare teams turn learning into action. By combining education, real-world application, and measurable performance, organizations build the capability to improve quality, safety, and efficiency sustainably and at scale.
Learn
Build foundational knowledge through engaging, self-paced lessons.
Experience
Practice new concepts through hands-on, team-based activities.
Apply
Use proven tools to solve real challenges in your own workplace.
Perform
Sustain improvements and measure impact over time.
A Foundation for Lasting Improvement
Gain core knowledge through interactive, self-paced lessons that introduce proven tools and methods for healthcare improvement.
Learning Into Hands-on Understanding
Engage in simulations and team-based exercises that bring improvement principles to life and strengthen practical skills.
Improvement Tools in Real Settings
Translate new knowledge into action by applying lean tools and problem-solving methods to real challenges in your workplace.
Measurable, Sustainable Results
Embed continuous improvement practices into daily work to sustain gains and drive ongoing performance improvement.
Learn Proven Methods to Improve Healthcare
Equip your healthcare leaders and teams with practical improvement skills grounding in the Virginia Mason Production System®. Learn by doing, apply concepts to real work, and build the capability to improve safety, quality, flow, and care delivery.
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