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MONDAY

13 March

Pre-Summit Workshop Day • Optional Add On Learnings

Thank you for exploring the workshop offerings. Should you choose to register for one, please note, you may change your workshop selection up to 30 days prior to the summit start date. After that, out of courtesy to the planning efforts of the facilitators, changes will be politely declined.

NOON - 4:00 PM

9:00AM - 3:30 PM

9:00AM - 3:30 PM

The Heart and Soul of the KATA!

Tracy Defoe + Deondra Wardelle

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Are you frustrated by initiatives that don’t last or don’t resonate with employees? Are you looking for meaningful ways to engage folx at all levels? Do you aim to develop people while also improving operations? Register today for this half-day workshop and be inspired by real-life examples of how scientific thinking and a pattern of daily practice can build equitable and empowering relationships between managers and team members. Join us to explore the importance of connections, coaching and culture in daily routines. You will leave this session motivated to experiment with and explore practicing the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata within your organization.

The Improvement + Coaching KATAs - A Practical Demonstration Involving You

Oscar Roche

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Participants (introductory to intermediate level knowledge of Improvement + Coaching Kata), will be introduced to a ‘company’ that is challenged by the ‘customer’ to improve a process. After a brief introduction, each participant will be allocated a role within the ‘process’. The process will begin using this new ‘team’, each with their new found roles. This is no different to what happens in the real workplace. The “process” will run for a period of time, observations made, routines applied, and then re-run. This will continue for the day, Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata awareness building as we go.

How Each Participant Will Benefit:

Good habits need to be “started” somewhere. They start via actions that reveal a benefit. For the above to really occur and be sustained, improving needs to become habitual. Good habits are developed through introduction, then routine and practice. In this one day hands on workshop, participants will be introduced to, and practice, routines centered on: • 4 steps of the Improvement Kata, the last being the most “active”. • The Coaching Kata that will navigate you through the 4th step above.

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TWI + KATA workshop

Brandon Brown

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TWI – Job Instruction is a great tool to take random work activities and create a standard set of work instructions when process variability is high. This workshop will explore the use of TWI Job Instruction as a countermeasure to the Kata Domino Challenge and how to use a “trial run/road testing” of the Job Instruction as an exploratory PDSA experiment to develop the standard methods for success with the Kata Domino Challenge. Once we have used the planning steps of the Improvement Kata and have a Challenge, Current Condition, Target Condition, and Obstacles, we will take time to examine the variation from team to team in their work methods. The class will complete PDSA steps toward the Target Condition by using TWI-JI to create the best method for stacking and division of labor.

4:00-5:00PM

KATA Coaching DOJO with Tilo Schwarz

High-performance teams need a high-performance coach.

In the 21st century, for anybody in a leadership role, being and becoming a better coach is key to performance.

If you want your team to achieve exceptional results, you have to coach.

But not just any kind of coaching. Coaching aimed at developing adaptiveness and creativity in your team. That’s what the Coaching Kata helps us to learn.

Unfortunately, effective coaching, even with the Coaching Kata, is still rare, in many organizations. Why? There is a fundamental disconnect between how we train coaching skills and how our brain learns.

In sports, we would never instruct a team about a new move in a classroom and then let them try it out in the upcoming playoffs for the first time. Pilots don’t learn to fly a new plane by simply reading the manual and then giving it a try. They regularly go to the flight simulator to hone their skills.

On the contrary, how do we train managers as coaches? We give them some classroom instructions on coaching and then let them try it out on their teams.

Where do managers go in your organization 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.

In this session you will learn …

  • How the Kata Dojo works.
  • How to deliberately practice coaching in a multi round Kata Dojo exercise.
  • How to improve your coaching ability with universal micro skills.

Who should attend

  • Anyone enabling and coaching others to master challenges.
  • Managers who want to coach their teams for superior results.
  • Change managers and consultants, looking for a method to train coaches more effectively and scale effective coaching throughout their or their clients organization.

Participants must be familiar with Toyota Kata and have personal coaching experience using the Coaching Kata.

This is a hands-on workshop.

5:15-6:30 PM

KATA Geek Meet Up (KGMU)

A fun warm up for the summit!  In the spirit of sharing, networking and growing community – join us for multiple 5-minute mini presentations complimented with group discussion. 

TUESDAY

14 March • Summit Day 1

Step one of the Improvement Kata provides a sense of direction, making practicing the Improvement Kata meaningful to the learner/improver. The challenge is what connects strategy to execution and helps align improvement efforts across your organization.

Leaders can make the first step of the Improvement Kata simple or complicated for the learner, depending on how well the overarching challenge at the organizational level is defined and scoped.

During this mini-keynote, Deondra will share with leaders how to gain clarity about your organization’s long-range direction and why it’s vital to prioritize strategy before goals.

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Kata Practice in Finance at GE

Michael Gallagher

Discuss practice of kata in finance in two business segments at GE. Discussion of methodology, learning, accomplishments, challenges, and impact of practicing kata in knowledge work environment with geographically disbursed teams.

Following KataCon last year I was approached by a handful of passionate Kata practioners who were energized by the idea of infusing the Kata Community with more perspectives.  Like Priscilla in the Pink Planet they were excited about finding all the color in the Kata world.  They were energized around creating a space where those people felt like they were welcome and they belonged. 

Over the last 11 months we have met regularly to use the Improvement Kata around this challenge to create a technicolor community.  We are excited to share about the experience: the obstacles we faced, the experiments we have run and what we have learned through the process. Most importantly we are hopeful for the future and the world we are creating for all in the months and years to come.

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"Free Range" Coaching

Julie Savage-Fournier

The end goal of Kata is to develop the learner’s autonomy in scientific thinking. It is critical for organizations as the number of qualified coaches is often the bottleneck limiting the expansion of the Kata practice.

How can we behave, as a coach, to facilitate the learning and develop this autonomy faster? The answer lies in understanding how our human brains work, how habits are formed and how to create these situations where the learner can get the most out of their Kata experience.

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The Importance of a Challenge “Condition”

Brandon Brown

In the original Toyota Kata book, the term we have come to describe as the Challenge or Challenge Statement is not explicitly used.  I cannot find it in any of the figures or diagrams.  The term “Psychology of Challenge” is found on p. 105, and there is discussion on how far out to set the Target Condition.  Mike even makes reference to the Vision and Distant often “vague” True North, but does not go further than giving his opinion on the Target Condition length of 1-4 weeks to 3 months.  And a Target Condition that is 1 year out is too far.  And page 111 does have a segment that explains that the Target Condition = Challenge.  By this, he means challenging enough that we don’t already know how to get there, less we succumb to falling back into implementation mode and action lists. 

 This keynote will take us from the origins of the term “Challenge” on to a “Challenge Statement” referred to in the TKPG, and finally expressing the Challenge as a “Challenge Condition”

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Coach or Tell - Engaging your team for amazing results

Tilo Schwarz

Having a team that knows how to adapt and innovate quickly can make all the difference in these challenging and competitive times – for your organization and you personally as a leader.

Leaders as coaches are crucial for a true learning organization, and high-performance teams need and want their leader to coach – not tell.

But not just any kind of coaching! Coaching that is enabling and inspiring because it increases adaptiveness and creativity – with each individual and the whole team – so we achieve great things together.

That’s what the Coaching Kata helps leaders to learn. Take a fresh look at this five-phase, dual-purpose coaching model. Become the leader you always wanted to be, and your team needs you to be.

Our goal at an intensive pig (hog) farming operation in central NSW Australia is ‘Build the capability of Windridge Farms Section Leaders such that they deliver operational results through the daily activities of their people (by end June ’23).’

The Actual Condition (Feb ’22) was …

Our first Target Condition was … and the obstacles were … Our first experiment was …

In true Mamma Mia (movie) fashion, Oscar will discuss the dot, dot, dots and beyond in his 20 minutes with you.

Dr Lou Flaspohler says the way to improve the efficiency of the health system is reduce those needing to use it. When a patient comes and sees him, it’s too late …

Lou has an unbridled passion for learning how to improve people’s wellbeing and what it means to have meaningful purpose. His one liners such as ‘humans velcro the bad and teflon the good’ are astoundingly illustrative.

Without ‘positive relationships’ Oscar’s client-based goals are, frankly, an uphill battle. Workplace relationships often seem like waterfalls, they tend to spill downward. The question becomes, what can we leaders practice in line with the goal of building positive relationships?

WEDNESDAY

15 March • Summit Day 2

Breakout Sessions • You Choose 1

KATA

Timothy McQueen

Abstract Pending

Connecting Purpose + Toyota Kata

Wayne Meyer

Putting strategy on a page in a workshop is one thing. Staying focused and connecting everyone in your organization to execute your strategy is another. Coaching Kata is a way forward.

Breakout Sessions • You Choose 1

Kata-ing My Coaching: A First Time Coach’s Experience

Chandra Boersma

Do you remember your first time Kata coaching someone?

How did you feel?

How did you know if you were doing a good job or not?

Did you grow as a coach? Again, how do you know if you did?

 

These were questions I asked myself when I was first tasked with Kata coaching a new colleague. I was terrified. I had gone through Kata as a learner, but never as a coach before. So, I asked my coach, to coach me on being a coach…. got that? Now, over a year and a half later, I can reflect on that journey and share some key takeaways and what it was like to Kata my coaching. Maybe you can try this too!

TWI + Kata, The Brunswick Way

Warren Peters + Steven Craig

This breakout will discuss the transition of how Brunswick Steel transitioned from the traditional Kaizen and training approach to utilizing Kata (Scientific Problem Solving) and TWI for training and how this has changed our approach from a traditional batch system to a one piece flow system in an industry that is typically batch.

We will also discuss how we have integrated Kata and TWI together, what has gone well, and the trials and tribulations we have endured along the way.

Breakout Sessions • You Choose 1

Kata as the driver to develop the “Story Way”

Pat Geary + Mike Casten

Nine years ago Story Construction started their lean journey with the adoption of our lean production system called Construction Production 2.0 (CP2.0).  The Improvement Routine was used in a covert way to deploy CP2.0 as we established requirements of the system, trained and then coached participants to comply with those requirements.  Elements of CP2.0 now exist in every part of the Story business.  Five years ago, the Construction Kata Storyboard was developed to provide a standard tool that incorporates both the Coaching and Improvement routines.  The tool was originally used with our project teams to improve their execution of CP2.0.  About that same time, we developed a Crew Kata Board for our daily crew routine to aid our work crews in their pre-work meeting discussion, observations of work through-out the day, and post work discussion to reflect on the work of the day.  Again, this tool aided teams of employees in the execution of the Improvement Routine.  We are currently deploying version 10 of the Crew Kata Board.  Three years ago, the Construction Kata Storyboard was piloted for individualized career pathing for our employees.  The pilot studies provided the necessary refinements to the process to deploy individualized career pathing for all Story employees this year using that tool. 

 

Story’s lean journey continues as we explore Shingo, TWI, Work Standards, Humble Inquiry and Reliable Promises as we look to create the “Story Way”.  We are weaving these topics together through a process of Adopt, Adapt, Improve and Transform.  The Coaching and Improvement routines are at the heart of that journey.  Within the last year we have combined the Improvement Kata routine with Job Relations.  We are currently working to create a work standard for the Coaching Routine that is specific to Story that starts from the foundational elements/steps as described by Mike Rother.  We can envision many more combinations of concepts that all have the foundation of first understanding where we are going, then understanding where we are at, followed by identifying the obstacles preventing us from reaching our goals so we try the necessary experiments to close the gap,  the essence of the Improvement Kata.  Nine years ago we had no idea what today would look like as our current reality was beyond our threshold of knowledge.  We very much look forward to the new learning the future will bring.  We look forward to sharing the story of our journey at KataCon 9.

Navigating Life to the Fullest Problem Solving Fueling Life’s Journey

Dr. Lou Flaspohler

Guiding Hypotheses

  1. TWI and Kata skills are fully applicable throughout all aspects of life…not just in the manufacturing world.
  2. The skills are patterns of learning that, with a level of mastery, occur with unconscious competence as the proper skill is used at the right time and right place.

Working from the hypothesis that problem solving skills are foundational in life, with Jim Huntzinger acting as our guide, Lou Flaspohler will walk us through his Kata, JR, JM and JI journey over the last year sharing how mentors including, Mark Rosenthal, Dave Hyem and Lis McNichol guided him, how unforeseeable new circumstances led to detours and how as different needs arouse different skills were used. 

Breakout Sessions • You Choose 1

Our Journey To & Through Kata: Building Kata Champions within your organization OR Growing Scientific Thinking within your Organization

Brittani Chambers

“Kata for all” she shouted from the mountain tops! But was that really the best way to introduce leadership to Toyota Kata within a Fortune 100 Company?  Join Brittani Chambers as she shares her journey of discovering Toyota Kata, sharing it with others, and growing Kata Champions within her organization. 

Surging Ahead by Embracing Commonality

Raaghavan Venkatram

This is a case study of how Norton McMurray Manufacturing Company uses Toyota Kata for strategy deployment, pulls J programs as necessary to create conditions for ‘scientific thinking’, applies coach-learner structure to Job Relations and continues to explore ways to get ‘results through people’ by combining the best of both worlds – TWI and Toyota Kata.

DEEP DIVE Sessions • You Choose 1

KATA

Beth Carrington

Abstract Pending

TWI + KATA

Mark Rosenthal

Abstract Pending

Closing Keynote

The skills and thinking taught through TWI and Toyota Kata can have a powerful influence on how the organization performs.

As we work to perfect our practice of these techniques it is important see above the process mechanics and be aware of the kind of culture we are actually building.

OPTIONAL​

10-Hour “J” and “K” Training

WED | THURS | FRI

Job Instruction

TUESDAY

5:00-7:00PM

JI Session 1

WEDNESDAY

10:00-12:00PM

JI Session 2

1:30-3:30PM

JI Session 3

THURSDAY

8:00-10:00AM

JI Session 4

11:00-1:00PM

JI Session 5

WED | THURS | FRI

Job Relations

TUESDAY

5:00-7:00PM

JR Session 1

WEDNESDAY

10:00-12:00PM

JR Session 2

1:30-3:30PM

JR Session 3

THURSDAY

8:00-10:00AM

JR Session 4

11:00-1:00PM

JR Session 5

WED | THURS | FRI

KATA Training

MONDAY

5:00-7:00PM

Session 1

TUESDAY

10:00-12:00PM

Session 2

2:00-4:00PM

Session 3

WEDNESDAY

9:00-11:00AM

Session 4

1:00-3:00PM

Session 5

Deondra Wardelle

O2TN1 Consulting

About the Facilitator

A visionary leader, entrepreneur, coach and speaker, Deondra R. Wardelle specializes in empowering individuals and corporate groups through strategic visioning to achieve goals and sustain transformative change. Deondra launched On To the Next One Consulting, LLC, to serve as a strategic partner, cultural change agent and operational expert for clients. She works alongside business partners to assess, prioritize and address operational challenges.

Her services range from facilitating strategy and alignment workshops to coaching leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion principles; educating teams on the tenets of Lean and the Toyota Way; and creating affinity and employee resource groups – all designed to help partners meet short and long-term business goals. Deondra’s vision is to help organizations, groups and individuals overcome obstacles and achieve their grandest visions and dreams – one step at a time. This includes her current passion project the #RootCauseRacism movement, a global initiative to end systemic racism and advance social justice through the practice and application of continuous improvement methodologies.

Website:  www.deondrawardelle.com

Sam Morgan

Founder, Illuminate Coaching & Consulting

About the Facilitator

Sam is a self-titled “confident learner” and last year after 5 years of work in the continuous improvement space he landed at KataCon.  There he had powerful moment where he realized where his true passion lies, transforming people through coaching. 

Ever since then he has been on a mission to help his clients illuminate who they really, what they were created to do and give them confidence to live it out…through the powerful practice of daily coaching.  Sam helps change the lives of his clients through the process of uncovering their PURPOSE, helping them understand the PATTERN of the Improvement Kata, tied together through the PRACTICE of daily coaching cycles.

Sam takes joy in seeing his clients move from fearful to fearless.  And resonates deeply with the quote from Henry David Thoreau “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”

Julie Savage-Fournier

CEO + Founder, JSF Optimisation Inc.

About the Facilitator

Julie is an industrial engineer with a master ’s degree in health systems engineering from Polytechnique Montréal. She has developed a comprehensive vision of healthcare organization through her roles as process improvement practitioner, strategic advisor, and manager. Having participated in several changes — both technological and structural — in the organization of care and services, she has acquired a deep knowledge of the challenges of this complex ecosystem.

To manage complex and volatile situations, she experimented the benefits of Toyota Kata, non-violent communication, and positive psychology. The more we know about systems, the more we realize the human factors are at the core of their design and their successes.

Oscar Roche

TWI Institute Australia and NZ

About the Facilitator

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.