Toyota Kata
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Toyota Kata is about creatinga growth mindset.a learning mindset.an inquiring mindset.a creative mindset.Scientific Thinking
What is Toyota Kata About?
Toyota Kata is about using scientific thinking methods to get to your ultimate going in small, achievable steps (scientists call them experiments!) after each test it’s time to review, then figure out the next steps, but the key is that you should do it quickly and in a structured manner.
Publication of Mike Rother's book “Toyota Kata” in 2009 was the beginning of a different way of thinking about and deploying Lean. Today many organizations have made the practice of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata a part of daily work. This helps organisations develop the capability of their people while simultaneously achieving challenging goals.
- How do we keep the improvement going?
- How do we align our organization so that daily improvements move us toward strategic goals?
- How can we work to develop solutions scientifically, instead of trying to implement preconceived solutions?
Changing Habits
When you want to change something, it can be a little tricky, you keep slipping into old habits. Solving problems can also be tricky especially if your habit is to jump right into doing the fix of the big problem and assuming it’ll work 1st time. Maintaining the habit of continuous improvement, learning as you go, they can be really tricky, especially if your big fix assumption proved to be incorrect! – guess what… that’s OK!
How People Think Improvement Happens...
We need to double our output... no problem we'll just do X Y & Z and that's it, BOOM! we double our output, it'll absolutely work 1st time. But is that reality???
How Improvements Actually Happen...
Well, that didn't work... OK, 45th times the charm!
The reality is Improvements happen in many steps as you figure out what works and what doesn't, these steps have a name, they are called EXPERIMENTS!
The reality is Improvements happen in many steps as you figure out what works and what doesn't, these steps have a name, they are called EXPERIMENTS!
The Framework
Toyota Kata is made up of 2 sections, the Improvement Kata and the Coaching Kata. The Improvement Kata is designed to guide you through a scientific approach to solving problems through working together in a teat-learn-adapt loop, you may know it as PDCA!
Improvement Kata
This Improvement Kata helps you slow down and think about the next steps, suddenly we aren't asking you to climb a mountain, just take the next few steps and check if you are still on the track you thought you should be on.
Think about this as a series of experiments that you are taking to move you closer to your ultimate goal.
Coaching Kata
The Coaching Kata is designed to give the coach the ability to ask just the right questions at the right time in a structured conversation that is designed to be effective in guiding the conversation in a systematic way.
Benefits of the Toyota Kata Approach
01
Improved Teamwork
By giving people a method to follow that encourages teamwork it becomes the default way of working in your organisation
02
Improved Coaching Ability
Coaching is a key element in the Toyota Kata Methodology because you practice this with the routines it again becomes an accepted standard way of operating with people beign mor eopen to coaching and beign coached.
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Faster Improvement Cycles
Since the improvement Kata is about lots of small incremental improvements to take you towards your ultimate goal each of those small steps creates an improvement so you start seeing the benefits of improvement far quicker than you otherwise would.
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Develop Scientific Thinking in your teams
Effective teams work on facts so the scientific thinking mindset developed by practising the Improvement & Coaching kata's help teams develop better ways to innovate
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Improved Resilience
In science experiments, there is no such thing as failure, only results. It is so easy for people to get despondent when the results of an improvement or change they are making don't work out. Toyota Kata gives them a framework to use to understand that this result is only a stepping stone in their continuous improvement loop.
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Unlocking Growth and Developing Your People
Working side by side with your leadership team and the shop floor alike our focus is to help you unlock the local knowledge already at your fingertips to help you transform how you do business. We will intentionally challenge your way of working and your status who to help you push your boundaries and grow your people, positioning you for stronger, sustained growth with a new lean mindset.
Our coaching approach is aimed at teaching you to do and to think for yourselves. We look to help build your leaders lean skills and look for them to train their team to embed that training.
Learn to Find
Here we help your team find the real, immediate problems to solve. We help your teams really learn to see the issues that need solved.
Learn to Face
Here we are interested in understanding what our challenge is, what is easy to fix, what is not and what the deeper challenges are.
Learn to Frame
Here we put the challenges you have discovered in a way that everyone will easily understand both in terms of the problem and also the generic solution.
Learn to Form
Working together at the GEMBA (place of value) to form the specific solutions you need through repeated try and see efforts and set a new standard that is repeatable.
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- What's Covered:
- The Improvement Kata
- The Coaching Kata
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- What's Covered:
- The Improvement Kata
- The Coaching Kata
- The Kata Storyboard
- The Kata Experiment Record
- Obstacle Parking Lots
- Applying Kata to a real Problem
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- What's Covered:
- The Improvement Kata
- The Coaching Kata
- The Kata Storyboard
- The Kata Experiment Record
- Obstacle Parking Lots
- Copy of Kata Slides
- A3 Problem Solving
- What is an A3
- Integrating Kata & A3
- Applying Kata to a real Problem
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- What's Covered:
- The Improvement Kata
- The Coaching Kata
- Copy of Slides & Handouts
- Teacher Training
- You can sponsor a Kata in the Classroom Session for a local school for up to 100 kids to have a Kata in the Classroom Session and help them learn about Scientific Thinking.
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