Tilo is an author, former plant manager, and co-founder of the Campus for Leaders at the University of Applied Science Ansbach. He has written several books on coaching and Toyota Kata and invented the Kata Coaching Dojo.

Between 2006 and 2013, being plant manager at a German power tool manufacturer, Tilo and his team participated in Mike Rother’s research that lead to developing Toyota Kata. Through practicing Toyota Kata they established continuous improvement and a coaching management approach as a daily habit on all levels of the plant.

That lead to winning the A. T. Kearny manufacturing competition “Factory of the Year“ and a second place in the WHU/INSEAD Industrial Excellence Award.

You can find Tilo at www.tiloschwarz.com or email him tilo.schwarz@lernzone.com.

Oscar Roche works closely with clients to realize organizational change, develop people capability and meet business improvement goals. He believes the long-term success of any business lies in the development of it’s people.

This belief, combined with extensive operations management experience, helps him add value to every organization he works with. Oscar holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences. His diverse sector expertise includes training, logistics, FMCG, chemicals, beverages and food. Having run his own business and worked in various manufacturing roles for many years, he keenly appreciates the competing pressures modern firms face.

The 10-Hour Job Instruction (JI) training trains you on the most effective technic, Skill, to consistently and repeatably train others to perform a job.  This enables an organization to create process stability across all workers and shifts to lay a solid foundation for continuous improvement.  Learning the Skill of Job Instruction trains you to successfully breakdown a given job and train others to successfully learn the job in the quickest, safest, most effective manner. 

The 10-Hour Job Relations (JR) training teaches the essential Skills of leadership, preventing and solving people issues, and the underpinning for good teamwork.  The JR Skill enables the development and building of constructive relationships by recognizing and preventing problems from arising that hinder better performance and improvement.  It lays the foundation for a work environment which creates an atmosphere of collaboration and problem solving.

The 10-Hour Toyota Kata (TK) training teaches and practices the techniques of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata.  The Toyota Kata training builds the patterns and behaviors of scientific thinking and practice creating a successful foundation of continuous improvement.  TK builds the habits of problem-solving behaviors, and coaching others to successfully think and work through improvement objectives through systematic experimentation.

The KATA DOJO  (8:00 – NOON)

Advance your coaching skills to a whole new level and immerse yourself in the famous Kata Coaching Dojo – a training setup that offers a deliberate way to develop and scale world-class coaching.

Unfortunately, effective coaching, even with the Coaching Kata, is still rare, in many organizations. Why? Because coaching is a skill and, like any skill, can’t be learned through reading and teaching concepts.

As a manager, the fine line between telling and coaching is a split-seconds decision – and it’s happening a 100 times a day.

So how do we get so good that we can coach, even in high stakes situations and when the pressure is on? Through deliberate practice. That’s why athletes go to the training court, surgeons practice on dummies, and pilots go to the flight simulator.

Where do managers go to practice their coaching game? This is where the Kata Dojo supports with a quicker and more effective approach to develop coaching skill with individuals as well as throughout all management levels of an organization.

The Kata Dojo provides a sports-like approach where coaches can repeatedly practice a series of specially designed training exercises and role play in a safe offline environment. This setup allows coaches to hone their skills through repeating coaching situations at a much higher frequency than would occur in reality.

Find out more at www.kata-dojo.com.

The COACHING CASCADE  (1:00 – 5:00PM)

Develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals.

You may already be practicing and coaching for a more scientific way of working in your team – likely using the  Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata pattern. That’s a wonderful start. You and your team are practicing the core fractal, or “playing the violine” so to speak.

However, you and your team are also part of an organization, which is like an orchestra. The goal is not just to play the violin, but to make music as a group.

Learn how to scale up individual practice of Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata across an entire organization, to create team scientific thinking capabilities and apply them to your break-through goals – by combining policy deployment with a chain of coaching.

Experience how you can turn strategy and execution into everyday activity at all levels.

This workshop is for you if you’d like to:

• Go beyond the Coaching Kata starter questions and take your coaching skill to the next level.
• Effectively develop managers as coaches in your organization.
• Scale practice of Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata throughout your organization.
• Link policy deployment and coaching to increase focus and speed and achieve exceptional impact by establishing a coaching cascade.

A day with Tilo Schwarz, inventor of the Kata Dojo, and Gerd Aulinger co-author of Toyota Kata Culture.