PRESENTS

TOYOTA
KATA:
COACHING AND
IMPROVEMENT
ROUTINES
FOR ENHANCED
ORGANISATIONAL
PERFORMANCE
JUNE 7-8, 2016
VENUE (TBA) • HONG KONG

WORKSHOP BENEFITS OF
OUTLINE ATTENDING

Toyota Kata (TK) is an emerging management and • Learn to rigorously apply the Improvement Kata and
continuous improvement practice that enables Coaching Kata
organisations to rapidly target performance efforts
through an enhanced lean approach and Daily • Integrate Kata routines into the Lean Daily
Management System (DMS). Its methodology, which Management System
can help you change your culture to one of continuous
improvement, is based on two routines: the Improvement • Learn how to deploy Kata in your organisation and
Kata (IK) and the Coaching Kata (CK). address change management issues
• Learn how to begin applying Kata the next day!
The IK is a simple, effective routine that uses short
problem-solving cycles to systematically remove
obstacles (using the scientific Plan-Do-Check-Act
approach) and enable you to reach your next target
condition. While other improvement methodologies WHO SHOULD
often lead to a long and often unachievable to-do lists,
the IK lets you rapidly attain goals through short-cycle ATTEND
improvements, upon which the team builds from one
process experiment to the next.

The CK methodology is based on five systematic • Leaders and managers seeking to implement
coaching questions, which are used at the end of each sustainable and continuous yet rapid improvements
experiment or problem-solving cycle. These questions in their organisation
prompt the person being coached (the learner) to reflect
on the problem-solving process as well as the learning • Human resources managers responsible for training
process, which in turn is beneficial to both coach and and organisational development
learner. In this way, TK helps organisations become • Lean and Six Sigma facilitators, green belts, black
learning organisations.
belts, master black belts
Based on Mike Rother’s bestseller “Toyota Kata” (over
100,000 copies sold in the USA and now available in 16
languages), the seminar will teach you how to become a
good IK/CK coach, develop your own “Kata Storyboard”
and deploy TK in your organisation.

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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
AGENDA FACILITATORS

DAY 1

• Welcome and presentations

• Introduction to Toyota Kata and Toyota Kata research
• Problem-solving live simulation and reflection on how
teams resolve problems
• Overview of the Improvement Kata
• Vision, challenges and Hoshin Kanri strategy
deployment
• How to identify a current condition and set a target
condition?
- How is a target condition from a target or an
objective?
- Reacting to abnormalities (problems) vs. striving
for a target pattern
• Introduction to the Kata Storyboard
• The Improvement Kata practice revisited through a
live-simulation
SYLVAIN LANDRY
Ph. D., HEC Montréal Business School,
Montreal, Canada
CFPIM (APICS)
Professor, HEC Montréal
Dr. Landry is a Full Professor and Associate Director of the
Healthcare Management Centre at HEC Montréal (Canada).
A founding member of HEC Montréal’s CHAÎNE (logistics)
Research Group, he is also a member of the scientific
review committees for Logistique & Management, and
Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal.

His work covers supply chain management and lean

DAY 2 practices in various industry sectors and as such offers a
global vision of its various components. He is co-author
• Overview of the Coaching Kata and the 5 Kata of the book Lean, Kata and Daily Management System:
questions Texts and case studies, published in French in 2016 (JFD
Editor). He has also authored numerous papers and has
• Coaching Kata role-playing spoken on these subjects at many conferences around
- Behavior modeling the world (Belgium, Canada, France, Japan, Netherlands,
• Roles of learner, coach, and second coach in the Singapore, Thailand, USA, etc.).
Coaching Kata
• Reflection on how to develop coaches and second
coaches
• Kata and the Lean Daily Management System
- Kata and A3 thinking
- Kata and daily huddles
- Kata and the Gemba Walk
• Why habits are hard to change and how humans learn
- System 1 and System 2 thinking process
- Neuroplasticity
• Kata deployment through the development of the
Storyboard
• Wrap-up
JEAN-MARC LEGENTIL
MBA, Ivey School of Business, University of
Western Ontario, London, Canada
President of Bell Nordic Consulting (Canada).
Mr. Legentil began his career with Johnson & Johnson
and Abbott Laboratories, where he was plant manager
for sterile products. After 14 years in the industry, he
launched a consulting firm in 1990 dedicated to training
and consulting in the areas of operations management,
COMPANIES IN ASIA CURRENTLY innovation and continuous improvement for service and
USING THE TOYOTA KATA PRACTICE manufacturing organisations, healthcare institutions and
METHODOLOGY: social services. His key areas of focus are continuous
improvement and process review. He is a Master
Black Belt (Sensei) for the Kaizen, Lean and Six Sigma
• Mitsubishi Electric • Forum Energy methodologies and is the author of the book Process
• Gifu Shatai Technologies Improvement: Kaizen, Lean and Six-Sigma (JFD Editor). His
• Marco methodology publications address the implementation of
• Asahi Techno Vision quality management systems, continuous improvement,
• NSG Group • Axus Pencils Factory process review and the Daily Management System.
• NileDutch • Noblesse magazine For more than 30 years, Mr. Legentil has been widely
• Micron Technology • Ingersoll Rand recognised for facilitating seminars at HEC Montréal
Business School and ÉTS, an engineering school. Most
recently, he has spoken at Lean Management conferences
in Brazil, Japan, Turkey and Canada.

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 TOYOTA KATA:
COACHING AND IMPROVEMENT ROUTINES
FOR ENHANCED ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE
JUNE 7-8, 2016 • VENUE (TBA) • HONG KONG

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