Lean management for HR

How to increase efficiency and added value!

This training is held in German.
A shortage of skilled workers, a complex recruitment market and cost pressure are forcing HR to make many core areas of HR management more efficient. Applying lean management principles to HR processes can lead to success here, as lean management is about optimizing HR work in order to create more added value for customers , avoid "waste" and make potential visible. Learn how you can transfer lean management principles to your HR management and how this can optimize customer benefits and costs and improve the quality of your HR work.

Contents

Lean management

  • What is lean management?
  • History of lean in the context of quality management.
  • Lean principles and lean organization
  • Lean in the service areas incl. Lean HR
  • The most important lean tools

Role and mission of HR 

  • Expectations of personnel management and status quo.
  • Self-assessment of your HR department according to the EFQM model.
  • HR management's contribution to the company's success.
  • Current trends and best practices for the HR sector.

Value creation and waste in HR management

  • Strategic lean orientation for HR and operational consequences. Effectiveness (efficacy) and efficiency (lean): Evaluate and improve HR processes and HR services.

Lean methods for HR

  • Basic principles & customer orientation.
  • Selected lean methods that are particularly relevant for HR.
  • Why lean approaches outside of production often fail and how you can avoid this.
  • Concrete challenges and solutions for the introduction.

Lean culture

HR competencies for Lean

  • Customer orientation.
  • Process orientation.
  • Leadership skills.

Performance measurement

  • Success and maturity measurement.
  • Suitable key figures.

Lean and agile - connections and differences

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You can transfer the lean management concept to your HR management, thereby optimizing value creation and costs and generating greater job satisfaction for yourself.
  • You design HR core processes such as recruiting, personnel development and remuneration in an effective, lean and measurable way.
  • You know the connections between the concepts of Lean and Agile and can use them for your work.
  • You will take away concrete recommendations for action that will support you in your daily practice and show you potential for improvement.

Methods

In-person events

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, self-assessment of your HR department

Live online events

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, self-assessment of your HR department

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Recommended for

HR managers, HR managers in leading and creative functions as well as management representatives

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Seminar evaluation for "Lean Management for HR"

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3.5
Content comprehensibility:
3.6
Practical relevance:
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Trainer expertise:
4.3
Participant orientation:
4.4
Method variety:
3.8
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02.06.2025
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21.07.2025
Munich
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25.02.2026
Berlin
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Lean Management Definition

Lean management is based on a management philosophy that pursues the principles and methods of organizing processes more efficiently. Lean management is a continuous process optimization that aims to reduce waste and costs, shorten processes in the value chain and avoid errors. At the same time, lean management aims to achieve the highest possible quality.

Lean management methods

There are a variety of methods for implementing lean management that can be used to transparently map complex relationships or processes and identify potential and waste.

Importance of lean management in HR

Applying lean management to HR processes can make them more efficient and thus reduce costs. Lean management in HR aims to optimize personnel work. Opportunities for this can be found, for example, in the recruiting process, in applicant management, in training and in personnel development. 

What does this Lean Management training offer?

In this lean management training, you will learn how you can apply lean management principles and lean management methods to your HR management and how this optimizes customer benefits (employees, stakeholders) and costs and improves the quality of your HR work .
You can attend this Lean Management training both face-to-face and live online.

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