Using Kata for Alignment

This video is part of a 7-part series with Brandon Brown discussing the Toyota Kata. The series will consist of these videos: What is Toyota Kata Using Kata for Alignment Establishing Target Conditions Picking the Obstacle to Overcome Overcoming the Unmovable Obstacle The Coaching Kata Putting the Kata to Action Brandon Brown delivers tangible and Read More …

Introducing a Little Sales Kata

This is just a quick outline on part of a webinar I did for Lean Frontiers today. They will be uploading the webinar on their website. I made a quick introduction to what we may call Sales Kata that was derived from this previous post, Using the Coaching Kata in Sales.  This is based on Read More …

How To Train Many With A Few: TWI

The System Director of Performance Improvement at Baptist Memorial Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, Skip Steward, is my guest this week for the second of a two-part podcast. The first podcast was Is TWI A Good Training Method for the Healthcare Field? Skip has a variety of accomplishments, qualifications and certifications in the quality improvement field Read More …

Are You Successful at Implementing Lean?

Last week I started a 7-part video series with Brandon Brown a Toyota Kata Coach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator as an Associate for the W3 Group. The first part of the videos series started with What is Toyota Kata?. After the podcast, Brandon told me what he was told when he mentioned Toyota Kata at the Read More …

What is Toyota Kata?

Brandon Brown delivers tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota Kata Coach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator as an Associate for the W3 Group. Since 2006, Brandon has been a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville teaching courses in the Industrial Engineering department such as Lean Production and Leadership Principles Read More …

Using the Job Relations Program of TWI

The practical nature of the TWI program makes it the ideal vehicle to commence leader capability development. So much so, that Oscar practices the skills in his everyday working life. Oscar Roche is is the Director of Training Within Industry Institute in Australia.  Related Podcast and Transcription: The People Side of TWI An excerpt from Read More …