Many organisations struggle to make the idea of daily, continuous improvement a reality. Improvement projects are in the hands of dedicated specialists, target big-step improvement and take a long time to complete. Front line employees & their supervisors are hard to get on board. Improvement is slow. To get to daily improvement, we need to change people’s routines. Toyota Kata converts managers into true leaders of rapid improvement.

Skill developed: Coaching rapid continuous improvement

Delivery: 5 class-room sessions, 2 hours per day (one week)

Practice: rapid experiments & coaching cycles whilst improving performance in the pilot line

Return on Investment: Toyota Kata provides rapid payback by accelerating the pace of improvement in the pilot line

Daily continuous improvement eludes most businesses. Toyota Kata develops the improvement & leadership skills that enable fast-paced, daily improvement. Kata (a term borrowed from martial arts) are practice routines that develop skills to the point that they become automatic, sub-conscious & easy. 

Empowering the people at the front-line (who know more about the real problems affecting quality and productivity than anyone else) to solve them, promises huge benefits. Proper empowerment requires direction, skill and support. Providing these is one of the critical management skills, developed by Toyota Kata training.

What Toyata Kata graduates will be able to do:

• Run fast-paced experiments to close performance gaps

• Grow the problem-solving skills of supervisors & their teams

• Align team & improvement priorities with operations strategy 

• Accelerate progress towards strategic objectives

• Coach fast-paced improvement

• Engage your people in rapid, daily improvement (Kaizen)

Toyota Kata enables organisations to:

• Quickly engage their workforce in continuous improvement

• Grow improvement capability & capacity (more people, more often, with real skills)

• Accelerate process stabilisation & operations excellence efforts

• Deploy operations strategy faster and achieve targets much earlier

• Energise and empower supervisors and their teams