Toyota Kata - Practice Makes Progress

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The Marshmallow Challenge Icebreaker

What could marshmallows possibly have to do with kata? Lean Coach Mark Rosenthal explains the rules of this fun icebreaker challenge.

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  1. Toyota Kata Overview 05:23
  2. The Marshmallow Challenge Icebreaker 04:04
  3. Lean and Organizational Culture 12:45
  4. Leaders Are Teachers 07:01
  5. What Learning Looks Like 12:24
  6. What Does a Continuous Improvement Culture Look Like? 04:28
  7. The Improvement Kata: A Model for Scientific Thinking 07:54
  8. How People Learn & Develop New Skills 01:42
  9. The Backwards Bike: Learning to Unlearn 07:56
  10. The Coaching Kata: A Routine for Learning to Coach the Improvement Kata 07:09
  11. The "Five Questions" Card 07:14
  12. The Toyota Kata Hypothesis 08:30
  13. Practicing the Improvement Kata with Dominoes 05:56
  14. Dominos, LLC - Rounds 1 & 2 06:47
  15. Dominos, LLC - Round 3 11:37
  16. Improvement Kata Step 1: Understand the Direction and Challenge 08:51
  17. Improvement Kata Step 2: Grasp the Current Condition 13:05
  18. The 5 Steps to Grasping the Current Condition 14:41
  19. How to Create a Block Diagram 03:42
  20. How to Create a Run Chart 06:52
  21. How to Measure Process Times & Cycles 05:27
  22. Additional Tips for Creating Run Charts 05:33
  23. How to Determine Equipment Capacity & Number of People Required 09:34
  24. Improvement Kata Step 3: Establish the Next Target Condition 07:57
  25. Creating Your First Dominos Target Condition 05:22
  26. Identifying Obstacles 05:40
  27. Improvement Kata Step 4: Experiment Against Obstacles 05:41
  28. How to Use the Experiment Record 05:02
  29. Introducing the Coaching Cycle 07:34
  30. Storyboards and the Coaching Cycle Part 1 01:42
  31. What Did We Learn? 03:56
  32. Lean in 10 Words 05:28
  33. Running Experiments 07:32
  34. Reviewing the Kata Mechanism 05:02
  35. Practicing the Coaching Cycle Part 2 13:09
  36. Going to Gemba Part 1 03:37
  37. Going to Gemba Part 2 06:07
  38. Going to Gemba Part 3 07:13
  39. Going to Gemba Part 4 01:24
  40. Going to Gemba Part 5 06:46
  41. Going to Gemba Part 6 04:50
  42. Toyota Kata Resources 02:28

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