You're on the Lean team at your company. What can practicing Toyota Kata do for you? Lean is struggling. TK elevates Lean to a more general, and more generally-applicable level, beyond removing waste from manufacturing processes. It's a way forward!

🎙 This week on the Gemba Academy podcast, Ron welcomes Chad Bareither as his guest. Ron and Chad discuss Chad’s book, “Improve LESS.” They also dive into the topics of Toyota Kata and why continuous improvement is not just “extra work." blog.gembaacademy.com/2023/10/19/ga-…

Had an awesome visit this week at the ⁦Gemba Academy⁩ for a 2-day Toyota Kata and Kata Dojo workshop in Keller, TX. Ron Pereria gave us a behind the scenes look at the Video and online education operations. I had an opportunity to sit down with Ron for GA podcast #501 soon!

FEEDBACK / DEBRIEF - I would always stick AAR (After Action Review) in there - awesome tool / technique...

Toyota Kata practitioners are about 'management' that uses cognitive processes to develop & channel problem-solving skill/habits. With all the challenges we face, the ability to mobilize human ingenuity at the team & organization level could be a key factor in the world of work.

Finally .. a book that presents Lean in a way that is applicable in public policy, taking Lean to a more generally-applicable level. This might be a good book for anyone in the Lean community to read. The different application sector helps you get more the essence of Lean.

Why **practice** scientific thinking, rather than only reading and talking about it? Our underlying assumptions are highly resistant to change, but *practicing* ST has the power to confront and modify them. Embrace reality ... every day a school day. Heck, enjoy reality! ;-)

Don't accept jumping to conclusions! Practicing Toyota Kata in your team is a way of developing some 'social circuitry' in your organization for thinking, working, reacting, and interacting more scientifically ... together.

Work culture often prioritizes answers over questions. That's a dead end. Practice scientific thinking and utilize it to keep moving.

In this 2-minute video edit Dr. William Harvey (@docwjh19) encourages you to coach scientific thinking more frequently; in everyday conversations and meetings, rather than only in front of a Toyota Kata storyboard. youtube.com/watch?v=99tUUw…

Came across this short video on the topic of Scientific Thinking. Definitely worth 8 minutes of your time. :-) youtube.com/watch?v=Q1g8_X…

Why practice scientific thinking with your team? Because the consensus on what's ahead is that there is no consensus.

Beth Carrington, LEI, Articulate have raised the bar on what a free webinar can be. Self-paced, bite-size information, multi-media. I like it a lot! Enjoy this way of getting information about Toyota Kata & scientific thinking and share it with others👇 rise.articulate.com/share/JoillZ_F…

Nice when a consultant's website is more than advertisement and provides useful value in itself. Says something about the consultant & how they work. Gemma Jones & SPARK Improvement nail it. Worth exploring her website as you'll get something out of it. 👉 sparkimprovement.co.uk

Watch this 15-minute video to learn how Toyota Kata was deployed & is practiced at the Bosch Automotive Electronics plant in Hungary. This video is an edit of the video capture of a presentation at the Lean Global Network online event on Nov. 30, 2023. 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=uIKwEV…

For any manager, leader, or change agent this 36-minute video might be one of the most useful ones you watch all year. Mark Rosenthal describes how to infuse practice of scientific thinking into regular work activities. v-veer.com/webinar/infusi…

If you are interested in improvement events / kaizen workshops, I invite you to check out this short article about how some organizations are adding deliberate practice of scientific thinking to their events, and why they do that. 👇 linkedin.com/pulse/add-scie…

Starter Kata are like stabilisers to help us develop scientific thinking but they're not the final objective! We're aiming to develop a culture of continuous improvement where scientific thinking is a habitual mindset for tackling complex challenges #NHSkata #IntelligentFailure