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Kata Applications and Case Studies

How NicePak Practices Toyota Kata with Tim Hall

Tim Hall and Mark Thomp­son describe NicePak’s jour­ney with imple­ment­ing and main­tain­ing Toy­ota Kata.

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Serving People Better at the Connecticut DSS through Social Work Kata

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4 Ways Physicians at Kaiser Permanente are Experimenting with Toyota Kata with Michael Lombard

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How NovoNordisk Used Kata to Engage People with Renata Marques

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Using Kata to Develop Frontline Leadership at FastGlobal Solutions with Sam Wagner

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Next Video The NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital Journey to Develop a Robust Management System Using Kata with Brad Parsons 

In order to be tru­ly suc­cess­ful at kata, you have to move past the tools. Brad Par­sons dis­cuss­es how NEA Bap­tist Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal has embraced the under­ly­ing prin­ci­ples of Toy­ota Kata at their organization. 
  • Toyota Kata Essentials

    • 6 Videos
    • 23m
    Toy­ota Kata is a prac­tice that enables orga­ni­za­tions to improve process­es and devel­op prob­lem solvers. Learn about its ori­gins, how kata helps peo­ple learn, the dif­fer­ent roles with­in the prac­tice of kata, and tips on get­ting started.

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  • Improvement Kata Essentials

    • 19 Videos
    • 1h 15m
    The Improve­ment Kata is a pat­tern of activ­i­ties that helps us move from our cur­rent con­di­tion to a tar­get con­di­tion in a delib­er­ate way. The Improve­ment Kata is designed to help peo­ple strive toward chal­lenges or solve com­plex prob­lems with solu­tions that are not obvi­ous. Learn the four steps of this pat­tern and how learn­ers work with a coach to devel­op sci­en­tif­ic think­ing skills while solv­ing problems.

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  • Coaching Kata Essentials

    • 18 Videos
    • 1h 28m
    The coach­ing kata is a set of prac­tice rou­tines for teach­ing sci­en­tif­ic think­ing to the improve­ment kata learn­er. Learn the main objec­tives and activ­i­ties, char­ac­ter­is­tics of the coach-learn­er rela­tion­ship, the delib­er­ate way ques­tions are used, and how this con­tributes to estab­lish­ing a con­tin­u­ous improve­ment culture.

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  • Toyota Kata — Practice Makes Progress

    • 42 Videos
    • 4h 23m
    Do you know where and how to start mak­ing improve­ments to your orga­ni­za­tion? Our Kata course will show you where and how to begin solv­ing prob­lems you may be facing.

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  • Kata in the Classroom

    • 2 Videos
    • 1h 40m
    Kata in the Class­room (KiC) makes sci­en­tif­ic think­ing a teach­able skill any­one can learn. In these mod­ules you’ll see Mike Rother, the author of Toy­ota Kata, run this work­shop with a live audi­ence. You’ll also have the abil­i­ty to run the work­shop on your own. All of the mate­ri­als for this work­shop are avail­able, free of charge, at katatogrow​.com which is a web­site that was cre­at­ed and is main­tained by Mike Rother.

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  • Coaching Kata Insights

    • 5 Videos
    • 53m
    Kata coach­es face a vari­ety of ques­tions and chal­lenges as they prac­tice their rou­tine for devel­op­ing learn­ers. Learn from the sto­ries and expe­ri­ence-based lessons of var­i­ous kata coaches.

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  • Non-Verbal Communication in the Coaching Kata

    • 5 Videos
    • 24m
    Scott Laun­dry and Mike Rother dis­cuss the impor­tance of non-ver­bal cues and how coach­es lever­age them to facil­i­tate learn­ing, engage­ment, and excite­ment dur­ing their prac­tice of the improve­ment kata.

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  • Kata Applications and Case Studies

    • 7 Videos
    • 1h 45m
    The improve­ment kata is a prac­tice pat­tern for prob­lem-solv­ing and for devel­op­ing sci­en­tif­ic think­ing. As orga­ni­za­tions apply kata, they are find­ing broad­er ben­e­fits such as engage­ment, improved com­mu­ni­ca­tion, lead­er­ship devel­op­ment, and bet­ter ways to tack­le com­plex prob­lems. Learn from case stud­ies in health­care, con­struc­tion, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and more.

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  • Top 10 Lessons Learned from Practicing the Toyota Kata Approach in Healthcare

    • 12 Videos
    • 47m
    Michael Lom­bard, a sea­soned leader in health­care per­for­mance improve­ment, shares his top 10 lessons from his first six months of prac­tic­ing the Toy­ota Kata approach. He con­duct­ed more than three hun­dred kata coach­ing cycles with clin­i­cal lead­ers from across his hos­pi­tal. He made every mis­take in the book and learned from each one. Lis­ten to him share his sto­ries and learn from his experiences.

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  • Using Kata to Address Wicked Problems in Safety

    • 5 Videos
    • 34m
    Con­struc­tion remains a dead­ly indus­try — over 700 work­ers are injured on a job­site every day, and 3 are killed. Despite improved safe­ty tech­nol­o­gy, out­comes have been stag­nant. Now, com­pa­nies are begin­ning to apply lean think­ing to improve con­struc­tion safe­ty. Hav­ing seen dra­mat­ic improve­ments as a result of insti­tut­ing a Con­tin­u­ous Safe­ty improve­ment pro­gram, The Boldt Com­pa­ny has begun using the rou­tine of a​“kata” to devel­op a new dis­ci­pline for improv­ing con­struc­tion safety.

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