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.

If you intend to develop a successful learning organization that thrives and grows in its respective market, you might want to expand the practice of Kata to all corners of your organization, making targeted improvement and innovation activities an integral part of everybody’s daily business. Kata is probably the best method we know to create the necessary scientific thinking and acting habits required for long term competitive success. So if you want to develop a “Toyota Kata Culture” you will probably need to have your teams practicing collectively every day. <br/>

After over a decade of experimenting and practicing with dozens of companies how to introduce Kata as a holistic management system, we found out that the best way to ensure that Kata will be successful long term may be based on a “simple” trick: daily, CASCADED COACHING as Mike Rother and I described in the orange book “Toyota Kata Culture”.  Why? Because CASCADED COACHING satisfies these six requisites for long lasting success:

1. Have top managers practicing Kata
2. Make coaching a daily routine
3. Make use of our herd instincts by having everyone work on some aspect of one shared target condition
4. Ensure fast communication, feedback and sharing what is being learned
5. Have fun, celebrate learnings and results
6. Everyone is a coach, everyone has a coach

On this full day Kata Cascades Training we will share, experience, coach, learn and discuss a lot of methods, tricks, and routines that you can use to start your own coaching cascades with your own teams immediately. We will set up a coaching cascade with all participants and strive to achieve a challenging target condition together as a team. We will learn how to deploy and coordinate targets across many hierarchical levels, speed up vertical communication, horizontal communication and increase our collective improvement speed by orders of magnitude compared to individual coaching. You will get to know routines, tools, forms, boards and methods you can apply to get your own coaching cascades going right away.