Scientific Thinking – Get or keep going now
In times of uncertainty you can’t pause. You still need to work on
obstacles stopping you reaching your Target Condition, right NOW.
We know Toyota Kata patterns are the way to develop scientific thinking skills necessary for effective and efficient adaptation. And we need that now … we must continue to strive toward our goals; the alternative is not good. We also know face to face hands on learning is best. But that’s not always practical and right now it isn’t. Through this ‘enlighten’ program for Toyota Kata you will develop your skills; face to face with us, you will participate. You will also be wherever you must be, and we will too.
Toyota Kata ’10-Hour’
Your people striving to where the organisation needs to be.
Outcome: Participants (maximum 10 per group) will be able to facilitate the application of the Improvement Kata and confidently practice the Coaching Kata as a means of moving learners through step 4 (of the Improvement Kata). As with the TWI J programs, the emphasis throughout is on “start learning by doing”.
Conducting Workplace Experiments
Outcome: A person who can plan a workplace experiment, do it, check what happened against what they predicted, then use what they learned.
Our assumption that people are naturally competent in conducting workplace experiments seems flawed. This is not criticism of individuals; it’s a reflection based on the last few years of experience and is classic. How often do we assume competence in foundational basics and that assumption is misplaced?
Job Relations for Toyota Kata Coaches
Combining the thought patterns of Job Relations and the Improvement and Coaching Katas makes sense.
Reality is that people have limited time for improvement activities and results need to be generated and sustained. Improvement is more effective and efficient when the coaches are constantly thinking of the learners and other stakeholders as individuals and recognising that improvement in results happens only through people.
Skillpoint Workshops
A unique, innovative and accelerated approach to learning.
Skillpoint workshops focus on intensive learning and practise of TWI Job Instruction or Toyota Kata through a 3½ or 3 day immersion into a simulated world of lean and continuous improvement. The ‘work environment’ is as near to real as you will get.
Scott Curtis (TWI Institute) and Jim Huntzinger (Lean Frontiers) discuss the Skillpoint experience.
A birds eye view of Skillpoint in action