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Toyota Kata Training and Coaching

When Solutions and Improvement Are Top-Tier Priorities

What is Toyota Kata?

A kata is a pattern for learning, practicing and implementing new skills, methods and processes. The patterns in Toyota Kata are designed to develop scientific thinking, which is at the core of Toyota Corporation’s renowned — and widely emulated — continuous improvement philosophy.

Toyota employees at all levels are trained and encouraged to make daily improvements to work processes. When changes are made, they are deployed in incremental steps. This serves to enhance the overall performance of the organization, rather than disrupt it.

Rather than mimic Toyota’s specific processes, organizations that practice Toyota Kata are tasked with finding their own solutions to their unique challenges.

Toyota Kata includes:

Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) – The scientific approach to assessing the need for change and taking action
Improvement Kata – A routine workers practice until they develop the skill of scientific thinking
Coaching Kata – A routine in which the coach leads the learner as they develop the skill of scientific thinking

In Toyota Kata, every employee is inspired with an entrepreneurial spirit, conducting experiments to improve operations in the long term.

Why Kata Is Effective

Aligned with Goals

Before any training begins, we work with you to understand what you need to accomplish and set target metrics accordingly. In itself, target and goal setting are elements of Kata.

People Focused

Your people become involved and feel appreciated; their performance and emotional commitment takes problems solving and improvement to new heights.

Develops Scientific Thinking

PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Act – is a proven model for improvement. Enables testing potential solutions on a smaller and more controlled scale.

Becomes Second Nature

Practicing kata establishes a culture of continuous improvement and active employee engagement; it becomes the natural reflex when facing everyday problems. Instills an instinct to seek and pursue process improvements on a daily basis.

Available Program

The Toyota Kata Skills Building program enables and empowers your frontline leaders and workers with the skills to create lasting improvement while developing leadership skills. We can advise you on staging and sequencing delivery, deployment, and scale depending on what your team is trying to accomplish.

Toyota Kata Skills Building

This five-day, hands-on training program teaches your team how to create sustainable improvement habits in a structure, scientific manner.

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What Our Clients Say

I got so much from it (Kata Workshop) and I am excited to begin applying the pattern. I am completely impressed by how you serve others through your teaching and sharing, it is truly admirable.

Marissa Brinkman From Fishback Financial Corporation