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ABOUT the KATA COACHING DOJO

Developing the scientific-thinking ability of the people and teams in an organization may be one of the core management tasks of our time. Since there is no roadmap for many of today's challenges, having managers, supervisors and team leaders develop their people's navigation skills is an increasingly crucial factor in reaching challenging goals, adapting, innovating and achieving continuous improvement at scale. As a result, coaching ability is becoming an essential skill for any manager.

However, developing excellent coaching skills is a challenge and needs practice and therefore, time. Hence, it often develops too slowly, haphazardly, or not at all.

That is where the Kata Dojo provides hands-on support with a quicker and more effective approach to develop coaching skill with individuals as well as throughout all management levels of an organization.

THE IDEA

The Coaching Kata with its five coaching question categories, provides the starting point for anybody aspiring to coach others in the Improvement Kata pattern.

However, developing excellent coaching skills and beeing able to coach naturally in a highly supportive and motivating way even when stakes are high is a challenge and needs extensive practice fare beyond knowing and applying the Coaching Kata once in a while.

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The Kata Dojo provides a sports-like approach where coaches can repeatedly practice a series of specially designed training exercises and role play in a safe offline environment. This setup allows coaches to hone their skills through repeating coaching situations at a much higher frequency than would occur in reality.

Imagine your organization having a permanent training center for managers, supervisors, and team leaders where they can hone their coaching and communication skills.

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Build a High-Performance Team by Developing World Class Coaching Skills. Advance your Toyota Kata coaching skills to a whole new level and establish a Kata Coaching Dojo in your organization - a training setup that offers a deliberate way to develop and scale world-class coaching.

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A l’aide de ce Template, Julie Savage-Fournier nous guide dans le choix de notre défi pour le Kata de départ.

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Merci à Julie Savage-Fournier de nous avoir fait partager le lien vers ce site, vous y trouverez des ressources intéressantes à tester.

N’hésitez pas à partager vos commentaires sur les ressources que vous testez 😊

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Are you frustrated at the pace of improvement in your business?

Has your business started improvement initiatives only for them to lose momentum or fail to ever get off the ground?

Did it all start with enthusiasm, but then lost focus and energy?

Maybe you know you really NEED to start on a Continuous Improvement journey but you just don't know where to start?

There is a lot of information out there. Should we follow a Lean Manufacturing approach? Do we want to focus on Operational Excellence? Should we think about Change Management first? Do we want a Six Sigma programme? Maybe TPM? OEE?

It can be overwhelming.

We are here to say that robust, sustainable improvement in your business is all about your PEOPLE. It is about engaging at all levels, providing simple and easy to use tools, enabling people to solve the problems that they see every day.

It is NOT about a complicated improvement strategy or an extensive training programme.

The most important skill is Problem Solving, plus the knowledge and dexterity to use some simple but powerful Lean Thinking tools. This is where the magic happens.

Turn your people into Problem Solvers who can think Lean, and your business will transform.

What is the Improvement Kata?

I'm working on a series of articles to document my Kata learning journey. This article, number three in the series, aims to explain the Improvement Kata, and how it can used to achieve big goals.

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So what is Kata?

I'm working on a series of articles to document my Kata learning journey. This article, number two in the series, aims to explain what Kata is, and where it came from.

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My Journey to Kata

I've been immersed in the world of Continuous Improvement and Lean for most of the last 23 years. But only recently I discovered the missing linked in my practice - Toyota Kata. This article gives some context to this, and is the first in a series documenting my journey.

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SPARKImprovement - Helping manufacturers be the very BEST they can be

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Are you frustrated at the pace of improvement in your business? Has your business started improvement initiatives only for them to lose momentum or fail to ever get off the ground? Did it all start with enthusiasm, but then lost focus and energy?

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Bon, c'est en anglais, mais en unissant nos forces et nos cerveaux, nous allons pouvoir traduire l'essentiel !

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Toyota Kata is a way for managers and educators to initiate and

coach practice of practical scientific-thinking skills in their teams,

to develop and mobilize creative capability. Competitive conditions

favor teams and organizations that know how to adapt. It's not as

difficult as you might think, because you can begin by practicing a

set of simple "Starter Kata."

Toyota Kata is about starter practice routines for developing scientific

thinking. From there each individual & team can develop their own way.

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your source for information about toyota kata

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Toyota Kata is a way for managers and educators to initiate and coach practice of practical scientific-thinking skills in their teams, to develop and mobilize creative capability. Competitive conditions favor teams and organizations that know how to adapt. It's not as difficult as you might think, because you can begin by practicing a set of simple "Starter Kata."

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Voilà le manifeste auquel nous adhérons, tout comme l'ensemble des Kata Schools ! (traduction libre à partir de la version anglaise & allemand)

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Un peu de patience, nous y serons bientôt !

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Toyota Kata is a way for managers and educators to initiate and coach practice of practical scientific-thinking skills in their teams, to develop and mobilize creative capability. Competitive conditions favor teams and organizations that know how to adapt. It's not as difficult as you might think, because you can begin by practicing a set of simple "Starter Kata."

Each team or organization can build on the practice patterns and ultimately develop its own style.

A skill-building process that shifts mindset & habits from a natural tendency to jump to conclusions, to a tendency to think and work more scientifically.
Toyota Kata = The 4-step "Improvement Kata" platform + Starter Kata for practicing it

You only need to practice for 20 minutes once or twice a day, under the guidance of your coach.

Toyota Kata gives you a way to develop and mobilize your team's creative capabilities, confidence and ability to handle tough goals.

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KATA schools worldwide - Directory of all KATA schools in the world

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Toyota Kata is a way for managers and educators to initiate and coach practice of practical scientific-thinking skills in their teams, to develop and mobilize creative capability. Competitive conditions favor teams and organizations that know how to adapt. It's not as difficult as you might think, because you can begin by practicing a set of simple "Starter Kata."

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Merci à Gemma Jones pour cette superbe infographie résumant les recherches de Mike Rother, et à Christophe Mazenot pour la traduction !

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Traduction du livre de Mike Rother "The Toyota Kata Practice Guide"

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Traduction du livre de Mike Rother "The Toyota Kata Practice Guide"

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Merci Christophe et toute l'équipe à l'œuvre pour cette traduction libre, donnant accès aux francophones à un ouvrage majeur sur la pratique du kata d'amélioration et de coaching !

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Guide pratique du kata damlioration et du kata de coaching - Matriser les comptences fondamentales de la pense scientifique pour atteindre des objectifs ambitieux