The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day

by Mike Rother

Overview

Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!

In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior.

Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide delivers the information, insight, and frameworks you need to:

• Form habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals
• Modify the thought patterns that drive your behavior
• Develop an organizational mindset that drives superior results

The Improvement Kata gives learners the means to experiment their way through obstacles and achieve tough goals; the Coaching Kata gives managers the means to accelerate and cement their people's learning.

In the new age of business, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs is no longer the end game. A manager’s job today is to develop patterns of thinking and acting in their people that lead to success with any challenge. Consistent, mindful practice is the best way to do it—and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide is the best way to get there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264983810
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/19/2022
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	521,784
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mike Rother is an engineer, researcher and teacher who works to develop scientific thinking in individuals, groups and organizations (for achieving challenging goals), shares his findings widely and is in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book vi

Acknowledgments vii

Excerpt from Toyota Kata ix

Introduction: A Way to Learn and Teach Scientific Thinking 1

Part I Overview Bringing Together Scientific Thinking and Practice

Chapter 1 Scientific Thinking for Everyone 11

Chapter 2 Guidelines for Good Practice 29

Chapter 3 Roles and Structure for Daily Practice 45

Chapter 4 Get Ready to Practice 61

Part II The Improvement Kata Practice Routines for the Learner

Chapter 5 Understand the Direction or Challenge (Step 1) 75

Chapter 6 Grasp the Current Condition (Step 2) 89

Chapter 7 Establish the Next Target Condition (Step 3) 123

Chapter 8 Experiment Toward the Target Condition (Step 4) 151

Chapter 9 The Summary Reflection 181

Part III The Coaching Kata Practice Routines for the Coach

Chapter 10 Introduction to the Coaching Kata 189

Chapter 11 Coaching Cycles: Concept Overview 199

Chapter 12 How to do a Coaching Cycle; Practice Routines 223

Conclusion 275

Appendix: Forms and Templates 281

Index 291