Custom Efficiency Training
Why would we sell everyone the same toolkit? We don’t. We give you what you need after our Seaworthiness Check. You should graduate our training with ownership of your quarters, and an understanding of how to fix organizational issues outside of your station.
We ensure your internal capabilities will add the language to communicate change to their lexicon. The Overton Window has shifted and in this new work epoch, our clients demand nothing short of the tools they need to change what is in front of them.
The answer to scaled challenges isn’t complexity, solutions typically have elegance.
What's next?
Let’s get in touch. In as much detail as you are comfortable, share with us where the issues are. With spend, with new management, or with an unmotivated front-line. We can come in to shape or to beef up the organization at the system or site level. Most areas of competence and domain can be aided by an application of operational excellence. We find that the solutions aren’t so much about the applied area as they are about the people that are in them.
Why Blue Belt?
Research shows that people forget up to 75% of what they learn within six days unless they apply it (Cepeda et al., 2006). That’s why Open Seas Blue Belt is built on immediate, internal use. Participants complete a real project during training — one that addresses a pain point you already feel across finance, operations, production, HR, or customer flow.
We don’t teach “how to improve.” We teach your team to improve what matters now.
Example areas we can impact:
Time loss due to rework, approvals, or backlog
Talent loss from friction, misalignment, or unclear workflows
Margin loss from overproduction or system drag
Trust loss between functions, teams, or leadership
We call this Applied Blue Belt because your system becomes the classroom.
Source:
Cepeda, N.J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J.T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354–380.
How do you tailor this to teams with wildly different needs — executives vs. frontline?
This isn’t a PowerPoint parade or a certification mill. Every Open Seas Blue Belt is custom-formulated to fit your organization’s actual structure, actual tension points, and actual people. We start with interviews and internal documents, then sequence the training using our four core elements:
Anchor – Who are we solving for?
Drag – What’s slowing us down?
Hull – Is our infrastructure fit for purpose?
Rudder – Are we steering with intention?
From there, we adapt the delivery style based on your audience:
Executive Emerge is ideal for directors and VPs rebuilding culture or strategy.
Frontline Engaged is tuned for supervisors, coordinators, and process owners driving tactical shifts.
Both flavors lead to the same place: a confident team that solves upstream, not just reacts downstream.
What is the Commitment?
Most teams complete their Blue Belt project in 4–8 weeks, depending on the tempo and layers involved. The minimum is about 12 contact hours — we’ve delivered it in intensives, weeklies, and blended formats.
Participants leave with:
A completed improvement project with quantifiable value
A functional A3 storyboard they can reuse
A shared language of systems thinking and real problem-solving
Skills they can teach to others (we include teach-back and coaching elements)
This is not about absorbing content. It’s about creating transferable capability within your team.
The People
Underperformance
Our people just seem unengaged; they aren’t responding as we expect. What could be causing this?
People Are Leaving
Our people are stretched across roles; they are leaving with increased frequency. Handoffs dropped, decisions delayed.
The Business
Financial Uncertainty
The business is bleeding out. We continue to make decisions that hurt the business in an effort to save it. Transformation is reactive & impulsive
Culture
You read right, Culture. We can trace root causes down to any level and test for system-level disparity with experimental design.
