3.

Kata Creates

Culture

5.

The TK

Starter Kata

Value Stream Mapping

Supporting Materials

Extras

1.

Improvement Kata

Challenge

2.

Coaching

Kata

4.

Getting

Started

TOYOTA

KATA

The

Improvement

Kata Exercise

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or get pre-printed cards here.

It’s a Starter Kata for the coach.

This 5-minute video  -->

summarizes the interaction

between the coach and the

learner. Improvement,

adaptiveness, creativity, and

innovation are something you

can practice in daily work.

This 5-minute video  -->

shows you the basic

coaching cycle headings,

which are a Starter Kata

for the Coach.

Without coaching a learner may not practice the right

pattern, or practice ineffectively. Without coaching, a

change in our brain’s wiring is less likely to occur. But coaching is a skill like any other, that takes practice. The

Coaching Kata helps you develop skill in supporting

learners as they practice the Improvement Kata.

The Coaching Kata is practiced by managers, supervisors

and team leaders who want to coach their people in a

scientific way of thinking and acting. Instructions for the Coaching Kata are in the Toyota Kata Practice Guide.

How to practice coaching the Improvement Kata pattern

Coach

Learner

Coaching cycles - Just 20 minutes a day

• Reinforces the pattern of the Improvement Kata.

• Helps make the learner’s current thinking apparent, so

1. the coach can give appropriate feedback as necessary.

One coaching cycle involves the coach asking the five

Coaching Kata questions of the learner, who refers to their

IK storyboard. This is done once per day at a scheduled time,

plus as the need arises, taking 20 minutes or less each time.

The five questions are the main headings in the coaching cycle dialog, and going through them has two main purposes:

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The never-ending need for improvement and evolution

in any organization gives you and your team the perfect

setting for practicing new skills: while you do your

normal work. The elegant trick is that as you

practice and coach the Improvement Kata

you are applying it to real goals, always

to the best of you and your team’s

current level of ability.

Each person here is practicing Starter Kata to help them learn new skill patterns: