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KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator™
Summary
In his Toyota Kata books, Mike Rother revealed the powerful pattern of scientific thinking and experiment based ways of working embedded at Toyota. This habitual pattern of thinking empowers every Toyota employee, from the factory floor to the most senior executives, to automatically think about how to improve their work in alignment with specific outcomes.
The good news is that for us to use this same pattern of thinking, it isn’t something extra a manager has to do on top of their very busy schedule. Instead it’s a way of thinking that naturally becomes a daily habit making it easier to manage the existing work.
This pattern of scientific thinking and working, significantly reduces a manager’s time spent firefighting, in unstructured meetings, needing to constantly reclarify due to miscommunication (typically from a barrage of email ping-pong) and unnecessary problem solving.
So what’s the fastest way for time-poor managers to understand and immediately start to use this pattern of scientific thinking? Better still, how do managers get the confidence to train their staff so there’s momentum to quickly become a habit?
Answer: A risk-free, interactive simulation to practice the pattern of scientific thinking is guaranteed to give you the fast track. To learn by doing. Not reading pages and pages of theory, nor sitting through hours of PowerPoint. Learning by doing is by far the fastest way to pick up new skills and thinking patterns plus simultaneously gain the confidence that it will work for you. You can take these skills back to work and begin integrating them straight away!
We use a simple simulation scenario, so you can focus on learning the steps of the scientific pattern of thinking. In this workshop small groups will try to assemble a jigsaw puzzle within the shortest time possible. With each attempt, participants record observations, reflect on what they learned, set another hypothesis and try another experiment.
See One – Do One – Teach One. In this way you will instantly see the scientific thinking pattern being applied, practice it and then have the confidence to share it with others.
This Kanban Accelerated Delivery (KAD) workshop, KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator is to train the trainer. It is for leaders that want to fast-track their learning and also receive a simulation kit they can use in their workplace as a simulation facilitator to coach other managers.
KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator is serious professional development, but it’s also seriously fun!
KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator is serious professional development, but it is also seriously fun!
Price: $1,300 (incl GST) per attendee
Workshop Duration: 1 Day (9:00am – 5:00pm)
About Your Trainer
Becci Watson is one of a handful of people in Australia that is certified as a Toyota Kata Coach. She brings her experience having trained managers from all functional departments and level of seniority, from Lean Coaches, to team leaders, General Managers and C-level executives.
Learning Objectives
Participants of the KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator workshop will:
- Practice a pattern of thinking (kata) as a meta skill for continuous learning and problem solving
- Practice drawing a simple diagram to explain the steps to the pattern of thinking
- Practice the coaching questions to facilitate delivery of the learning pattern during the jigsaw puzzle simulation
- Understand how to structure the hierarchy of work from strategy and outcomes to include experiments
- Understand how to apply the pattern of thinking using a Lean Kanban Board for knowledge work and service delivery.
Topics Covered
The following Lean thinking topics are explored:
- Toyota Improvement Kata (learning pattern)
- Toyota Coaching Kata (coaching questions)
- Integration with A3 Lean Canvas
- Integration with Lean Kanban Board
- Problem Solving
- Continuous Improvement (CI)
- Experimentation
- PDCA – Plan Do Check Act
- Kanban Accelerated Delivery (KAD) ways of working where the “People Who Do the Work, Improve Their Way of Working Daily”.
What Attendees Get
Attendees receive twelve months membership to the Kanban Accelerated Delivery’s (KAD) KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator online resources.
Online resources to facilitate the simulation include:
- Toyota Improvement Kata 60 second explainer video
- Facilitator’s Simulation presentation deck in Microsoft PowerPoint
- PDFs of puzzle simulation handouts to photocopy
- PDF Quick Reference Guides
- PDF of A3 Lean Canvas and experiment template
- Supplier details to order custom jigsaw puzzles
- KAD Certificate of Accreditation
Who Will Benefit?
Managers that want to ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’ from any industry, at any management level including:
- Managers or team leads of any functional department or areas
- Process Improvement Managers
- Continuous Improvement Managers
- Transformation leaders
- Agile Coaches
- Lean Coaches
- Lean Consultants
- Change Managers
Prerequsites
There are no prerequisites to become a KAD Lean Kata Simulation Facilitator.
The workshop is designed to cater for those with no knowledge of Lean thinking who want the fast-track. You will quickly pick it up as we use the simulation and you’ll also have the opportunity to reinforce the coaching questions as the simulation is repeated throughout the day.
It is helpful (but not essential) if you’ve read the Mike Rother’s book prior to attending the workshop: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day (2017).
After registering for this workshop, participants will be emailed a series of short videos to watch before attending the workshop.
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