Coaching your Marketing Team

A talk on a powerful approach to problem-solving supporting schools in moving toward a more hands-and minds-on, challenge-based curriculum. Learn from Co ways that design thinking methodology can unleash student creativity and improve students’ ability to solve complex, real-world problems. Presented by Co Barry, Founder and CEO CreatEdu. I found the video an excellent demonstration Read More …

Coaching Agile Software Teams

Troy Tuttle, KCP, is the owner and a principal consultant at KanFlow. He is a practicing Agile software developer and Lean-Agile-Kanban coach to software teams, project managers and executives. He helps software professionals and teams improve through approaches that support better clarity, understanding, and continuous learning. Troy is the founder of the Kansas City Limited Read More …

Understanding the Coaching Kata

At the 9th Annual TWI Summit in Jacksonville, FL, Brandon Brown will be conducting a Toyota Kata workshop on May the 13th. Brandon delivers tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota Kata Coach and Lean Instructor/Facilitator as an Associate for the W3 Group. Toyota Kata is documented in Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata: Read More …

Coaching An Agile Team Virtually

I have coached a variety of teams virtually and wondered how someone else did it. So I asked a could of questions. An excerpt from last week’s podcast, Managing Product Development . Joe: Much of a consultant’s role is relationship and trust building; when we do it virtually, that’s sometimes very difficult to do. How Read More …

The Coaching Kata

This particular video, The Coaching Kata is one of a 7-part video series with Brandon Brown where we touched upon some of the finer points of the Toyota Kata versus staying at the 20,000 foot level.  Toyota Kata is documented in Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results. The Read More …

Using the Coaching Kata in Sales?

We over complicate most things, and when I think about Sales and Marketing, they certainly have their share of complications. I was reminded of how tough we seem to make things while reviewing Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata Website. It really can be rather simple. Kata seems to be the hot topic in Lean right now, Read More …