Dr. Liker's audiobook Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of byte-sized, topic-specific learning modules. Follow along as we hear Dr. Liker at those actual presentations, delivered firsthand to the students of Lean Practitioners.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. Learn about the behaviors required to sustain it over the long term. Understand how leadership must walk the talk of true north. Find out how to actively engage in developing Lean Leader skills.

The teaching objectives for this section are to:

• Explain why the team leader is the right person to do troubleshooting for the area.
• Explain how a fixed-position, line-stopping system works.
• Identify the main role of the group leader as working on improvement goals for the year.