Employers in all economic sectors regardless of their size or years in operation can benefit from Toyota Kata. In particular, it can improve the workplace environment every employee experiences on a daily basis. This practice routine for scientific thinking is highly distinct from others in several ways. For one, Kata focuses primarily on attaining continuous […]
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3 Reasons Why Toyota Kata Really Does Work! | Continuous Coaching Commitment
Continuous Coaching Commitment helps with the development of Toyota Kata in delivering tangible results. There are different leadership styles that can be tailor-made for your business. Our coaching company helps with employee engagement and customized Lean transformation. We can also assist you with the implementation of strategies that help you deal with plateauing in business in […]
Learn How to Deal with Resistance Through a Visual Workplace and TWI-Job Relations
Every employee reacts a bit differently to the work environment around them. They may put up walls and resist change or even orders given out by you and other managers. There are ways to deal with these kinds of situations without immediately letting someone go. You’d hate to lose a good worker, especially after you […]
3 Examples of How Kata is Transforming the Healthcare Industry
When you hear Kata, the first impression you are likely to get is martial arts. While these are a set of skills used in the art of self-defense, this same discipline can be applied in a broader sense. Coaching and Improvement Kata are used to train leaders and managers and help them be more efficient […]
5 Ways Continuous Coaching Commitment Can Transform Your Organization
Top managers globally are slowly discovering the role played by coaching in organizational success. All the big companies including Nestle, Verizon, Coca-Cola, and IBM now use coaching to usher in new corporate cultures, deal with complex job shifts, and fine-tune leadership performance. At major financial companies, managers are now expected to spend a whole two-thirds […]
Top 5 Coaching Kata Questions | Continuous Coaching Commitment
In the beginning stages of implementing the Toyota Kata, an organization outlines its goals, communicates its vision and chooses its departmental challenges through value stream mapping and perhaps the Hoshin Kanri. As these steps are completed, the process moves forward by setting target conditions. Your manager or other coach will work to ensure that everyone stays on course […]
The Power of Lean Thinking | Toyota Kata
Lean thinking is a philosophy based on Toyota’s employee-management routines. People also call it Toyota Kata after a 2009 book by Mike Rother called Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results. Toyota calls its organizational routines kata, a Japanese word that usually refers to practice routines in martial arts. Kata can also mean any […]
Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata | Lean Management
When faced with a complex situation, we usually react by repeatedly attempting to solve that problem until we find a way around it. As long as you know your target, all you have to do is try again and again until you get there. This is the foundational basis of both the improvement kata and […]
What is Continuous Coaching Commitment? | Toyota Kata
When you really think about what it takes to be successful in business or successful in life for that matter, it all comes down to a few basic tenants. Hard work, honoring an ethos or way of doing business, and filling a niche which need be filled are all key concepts in the business success […]
What is a Kata Skill Week? | Continuous Coaching Commitment
Organizational development is a laudable but frequently elusive goal; the best companies do not leave this success factor up to chance. Continuous Coaching Commitment’s Kata skill week is a tailor-made experience that is delivered on-site at our client companies. It can be held over the course of anywhere from three to five days and offers employees the […]