Key Learning:

• Learn how to apply Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata in your organisation
• Help people become comfortable with change and strive for new challenges
• Make daily improvement part of an everyday habit
• Improve the problem solving and continuous improvement abilities of your people by developing your own training and coaching skills based on Kata
• Teach a systematic, scientific way of developing your associates’ own solutions

Learn the Kata Routines: Over two days, you will learn the two types of Kata routines through a mix of simulation and expert-led classroom activity:

Day one: Improvement Kata – Learn to teach a simple, scientific and structured method of continuous improvement. Solve problems, improve process and results by conducting short PDCA cycles.

Day two: Coaching Kata – Learn a set of coaching routines to help develop effective coaching habits. Learn the methodology of how to manage, support, monitor and initiate team-based improvement activities through instruction and simulation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This workshop is ideal for improvement champions, Lean leaders and any professional responsible for developing and coaching people, including:

• Enterprise leaders and managers requiring an underpinning knowledge to lead the adoption and practice of Lean management.
• Existing Lean and continuous improvement leaders who want to lead and manage more effectively.
• Individuals and organisations focused on creating and developing Lean leaders.
• HR professionals charged with leadership development and involving more of their organisation’s people in improvement, adaptation and innovation.

NOTE: This workshop is suitable for leaders from all sectors, including manufacturing, service industries and the public sector.

Workshop Overview:

Kata expert Drew Locher takes you on a practical journey through Toyota’s incredibly successful Kata managerial thinking process. Over two days of hands-on activities and simulations, learn how Kata Coaching and Improvement can turn behaviours into habits and patterns into routines in any organisation. This workshop is a unique opportunity to discover how to unlock the habits of continuous improvement and hear why Kata is so critical to Toyota’s continuing success.

Key benefits:

• Transform your management approach to coaching by encouraging, advising and mentoring colleagues through Coaching Kata.
• Use Improvement Kata to teach others and motivate your team’s way of thinking and acting to drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and utilise the capability of colleagues to consistently work towards new levels of performance.
• Empower workers to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations, and make improvements every day.